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ZEN 禅 experience in Kyoto

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People who want to calm your mind, away from busy life, ZEN meditation experience at ZEN buddhist temples in Kyoto would bring you something new to open your eyes. Also, for people who have kept doing maditation in everyday life, would feel higher state of mind, spirits and new discovery of mindfulness. Here, we introduce Zen buddhist temples which you can experience Zen practice in Kyoto. Tweet Tōfuku-ji temple Tacchu Shōrin-ji 東福寺塔頭 勝林寺 Shōrin-ji is one of 24 Tacchu, sub-temples, in the Tōfuku-ji (東福寺)which has the largest and the oldest existing Zen hall. It is also known as beautiful autum leaves place. You also can experience Sutra copying (写経) as well. Reservation required for both Zen practice and Sutra copying. View this post on Instagram A post shared by @ariel1162km (@ariel1162km) View this post on Instagram

Baseball challenge - the world fastest batting cage

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Have you ever hit 240km/h (149mph) fastball ? Most of batting cages, they have 150km/h (93mph) fastball. Although, in Fukuoka, Japan, there is a batting cage with fastball speed upto 240km/h, the world fastest. There some professional baseball players come to try to hit 240km/h fastball. It is really faster than Chapman. If you get used to hit 240km/h fastball, you would feel slow on Champman's fastball. Here we introduce extraodinary fast batting cages in Japan. Tweet Mihagino Batting Center 三萩野バッティングセンター (Kitakyushu, Fukuoka) The pitching machine originally threw 150km/h fastball. They modified the pitching machine to increaing speed, initially upto 180km/h. The owner, Kazuhide Suematsu said that even 180km/h fastball, the world fastest at that moment, if you come here often and get used to it, you would hit the ball. And they keep modifying to increase the speed. Current maximum speed is upto