A Visit to TUAT

Today, my senior and I asked for a day off (our projects are mostly finished anyway) to go and visit 3 of our friends from our university who are summer exchange students at the Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, or TUAT for short (Japanese call it "noukoudai"). While the name of the university suggests that it is in Tokyo, its Koganei campus not in the central part of Tokyo and takes around one hour to get there from Akihabara on the Sobu and Chuo line (which means 2 hours from Tsukuba).

Train Route on Google Maps

After we've arrived, our friends picked us up and the station and it was a short walk to the campus.

Me and Tanasak together with our friends at TUAT

A hand statue in front of a building

Then, we were taken to visit the lab that one of our friends, Chanon, works in. Unfortunately, we couldn't visit the other labs because they are people working there and we would disturb them. However, we've learned about the project they've worked on for the summer — a sudoku solver, a system to distinguish writing from drawing and MIPS hardware programming.

Chanon's Lab

We also had lunch at the cafeteria, which was quite cheaper than the lunch at AIST. Most menus were only around ¥300.

After that, we parted way with our friends since they have to go and present their projects. We were recommend to go and take a look at the Edo-Tokyo Open-air Architectural Museum at Koganei park, which is a display of old Japanese house and we were also allowed to go inside some of them.

The bus we took to the Koganei Park

The entrance of the museum

An old house (but not so old)

There seems to be a lot of people drawing pictures

This Sony television should be about 60 years old

Blowing fire to heat water and cook rice

An old train from Shibuya to Shimbashi. It's not air-conditioned, but it's electrified.