This is a view over the Nojima fault, the origine of the 1995 Kobe earthquake, which will soon mark the 30th anniversary of the disaster. The fault cliffs running north-south along the coast can be clearly seen.

I left home by train and boarded an early morning flight. I was the fourth person on the check-in queue because I was so early arrived at the KIX airport. I was told that the check-in is very crowded for Chinese passengers, so I arrived 3 hours before the flight. The plane is a large Airbus A330, 2+4+2, and there were quite a few passengers in the middle compartment. There were only 18 passengers in the back 1/3 compartments, which were almost empty. This was the only flight where we were able to reserve seats in advance, so we were in the second position from the back. I have an enough space around my foot. It was a comfortable flight in a long time.

There is a TV screen behind the seat in front of me, but there are no good movies, so I have no choice but to display a GPS map. The surprising thing about this is that it is indeed the lower limit along the jet stream as we fly west. The wind speed of our against is very high 263km/h!

The wind speed reached 70 m/s. The wind speed at the center of the jet stream would have exceeded 100 m/s.

The plane descended into Shanghai in a little more than two hours. The muddy seawater is indeed catching the water of the mighty Yangtze River. Quite a few wind turbines could be seen. I added a video of before the landing at Shanghai airport to the next frame.

This is the video before arriving at Shanghai airport. You can see how well planned the artificial city is. It is very different from Bangkok! But if you look closely, you can see that there are not so many cars on the road. I wonder if real estate in China is safe?

There are two large airports in Shanghai, and this is probably my first time to land at Shanghai Pudong International Airport. I was overwhelmed by the huge facility.

In the lounge, I find out that the flight was not loaded bear due to an early morning flight. I get my noon beer this time, but then I notice a big problem. I knew Google wasn't working, but even Line wasn't working... This is very annoying, but I can't help it. I checked around and found that the websites of Japanese newspapers were all out of order. For some reason, I can use Yhaoo. I can even read my EO's email. As one would expect from a country that is digitally isolated. In the end, I responded again to the Line contact after arriving in Bangkok.

The flight to Bangkok was a complete change from the comfortable flight to Shanghai.  It was a small 737-8, and the 3+3 seats were almost fully occupied. I'm glad I chose an aisle seat when I checked in at Kansai International Airport. At any rate, beer was on board this flight. Lunch was pork noodle instead of beef rice on the morning flight. Naturally, it was a complete meal. Combined with the early morning flight, which was very comfortable. I can't complain since it cost me 21,000 yen one way (including the 2000 yen flight change option), and I even earned JAL miles.

Finally, I arrive at my hotel in Bangkok, and it's time for dinner... a new food stall village has opened just below the ARL station, where I pick up a cheap dinner. I celebrate my stay in Thailand with a Chan beer.

I arrived at an airport safely by Grab, never knowing that I was at the wrong airport at that time. It was like arriving at Yao Airport when going to Itami Airport. Not as far as Kansai Airport.

I entered the airport from here and looked for the airline on the bulletin board, but I noticed that there were no domestic flights, and I finaly noticed on a wrong way when I asked the information desk lady,  then I realized it. I remembered that there was a free shuttle bus, and she showed me where to get on it, so I was able to jump on the bus just before it departed. The photo shows a Taxi that JustGrab picked me up for a little more than 400 baht and no tip. The system is based on electronic information, and if I made a mistake in the input, I found that I could not correct the mistake later. I could have told the driver where I was going to.

This is a luxury hotel that was taken care of by the university. The room was a large corner room with a great view, and as before, we had a wonderful stay. In addition, as described in the next page, they provided me with a sumptuous dinner. I would like to express my gratitude to all the professors who took care of us.

I was welcomed at dinner by the new principal of the high school I will be visiting tomorrow, as well as by the teachers who took care of me last year. They even served us fresh oysters. We had a blissful time listening to the live band playing "Desperade" by the Eagles and the Thai version of "Subaru".

Teachers of the Demonstration School of Phayao University with whom I had dinner. On my left is the new principal. On my right is the previous principal who took care of me last year. There are also teachers of physics and mathematics. Phayao University is a national university. At the faous restrant dinner, we discussed, as usual, the recent progress of AI, the light and shadow of IICT education, the extinction of geoscience education in Japan, etc. For the second topic, I told them about my big failure this morning Grab. Everyone had a good laugh.

After a wonderful dinner, we walked along the lakeshore in a tipsy mood. The lakeside illumination, which was upgraded to about three times the size of last year's illumination, was beautiful.

It is amazing to see LED lighting so densely packed. A group of Thai ladies who seemed to have come here as tourists They were taking pictures of each other, yelling and shouting!

But in fact, the flowers on display are also amazing. I used to be a big fan of orchids when I was young, and this is a coveted one, Vanda, the most cold-sensitive species, which was very difficult to grow in Japan. This is my favorite orchid.

I have also grown them in my greenhouse, but I had to heat the greenhouse with an oil heater to keep them from withering in the winter. I am very envious of the fact that here it is normal to grow in nature.

This is a video that the teachers told me represented a shooting star. On the other side of the flower bed is a freshwater lake. It is a wonderful place, but not so much announced as a sight seeing spot. it takes about two hours by car from nearby Chiang Rai because there is no airport in the city.

I went through the tunnel of light. The real thing is even better than the picture.

The main feature of this teaching material is a travel-time curve made from seismic waveforms. This is a practical exercise to make a travel-time curve of earthquakes around the world by combining the records of seismographs installed at KVIS, my first job in Thailand, eight years ago, and the records at home, and to put them at each distance between the epicenter and the observation points. The world's first  practice was conducted here at Phayao University High School. This allows us to grasp the characteristics of seismic waves passing through the earth's interior. The horizontal axis of the graph shows the distance between the epicenter and the observation point in terms of the center angle of the earth. The vertical axis is the time since the earthquake happened. It was quite taking a time to select these earthquake. The students worked very carefully and in time.

It was my first practice with these seismograms, and as you can see, the students were delighted! It was worth all the hard work. Even after the class was over, I was still being asked to take pictures with them, even at my old age. In the foreground is Dr. J., who was very kind to me.

With Dr. J, the mathematics teacher, in the seismograph room. He has studied in UK and Austria and received his Ph.D. He is currently assisting the administration, and he took time out of his busy schedule to help me in various ways. I am very grateful to him.

After lunch, we toured the university campus. The campus is so vast that it might be larger than Hokkaido University. It is King Naresuan of the Ayutthaya Dynasty, a hero of Thailand who was feared as a military god during the Thai-Burma War. He is holding a sword. Students are said to ask for favors here whenever they have something to ask for.

On the way to Chiang Rai Airport, we passed by the White Temple, which we visited last year. The owner of this temple is not really related to the temple, but a motorcycle gang, according to J-sensei. Is it true?