Welcome to “This Week in Nishinomiya,” where we look back at store openings and closings in Nishinomiya covered by “Nishitsu (Nishinomiya Tsushin)” this week (11/30–12/6), along with other topics that got people talking!
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Weekend Nishinomiya Info
Here’s the weather and event information for Nishinomiya this weekend.
Looks like both weekend days will be sunny
Saturday the 7th will be sunny with occasional clouds, with a 20% chance of rain, a high of 9°C, and a low of 4°C. Both the high and low have finally dropped into single digits.
Sunday the 8th will be sunny, with a 10% chance of rain, a high of 11°C, and a low of 5°C. Last week it got fairly warm around midday, but December is definitely showing its true colors now. It’s cold.
Source: Japan Weather Association tenki.jp
Featured Events in Nishinomiya
Saturday the 7th
There are 5 featured events
Try maintaining the field with a groundskeeping vehicle! This will be held at the Koshien History Museum (separate fee required).
Kurakuen/Shukugawa Candle Night will be held at the Shukugawa River Green Space (Shukugawa Park).
A cute Christmas tree displayed inside a wooden frame will be held at Kitayama Botanical Garden (separate fee required).
Michikusa Screening will be held at Yamaguchi Hall.
THE BEAT GARDEN will perform a concert at Hankyu Nishinomiya Gardens.
Sunday the 8th
There are 4 featured events
The first is a public recording of Radio Kansai “Asobiba! Radio: Oniisan, Oneesan, and Watafura”, held at Hankyu Nishinomiya Gardens.
The second is Mochi Pounding and Roasted Sweet Potato Gathering, held at Koshienguchi Honwaka Center Street.
The third is Rabbit Lalabi-chan Appears!, held at LaLaport Koshien.
The fourth is a Michikusa Screening, held at Kinro Kaikan Hall.
For more event information in Nishinomiya, click here
This Week’s Openings, Closings, and Popular Articles by Area
Here are the openings, closings, and other topics Nishitsu covered this week, organized by area.
Just by looking at the titles, you can read a digest of what happened in Nishinomiya.
All of Nishinomiya City
Yamaguchi, Najio, and Namaze Area
Koyoen and Kurakuen Area
Hirota, Taisha, and Uegahara Area
None this week
Send us your tips!
Nigawa and Kotoen Area
Mondoyakujin and Hinokuchi Area
None this week
Send us your tips!
Shukugawa and Kurakuenguchi Area
Hanshin Nishinomiya Area
None this week
Send us your tips!
JR Nishinomiya Area
Nishinomiya-Kitaguchi Area
Koshienguchi Area
Koroen Area
None this week (5th week)
Send us your tips!
Hamawaki and Yomihama Area
None this week (1st week)
Send us your tips!
Imazu and Hanshin-Kokudo Area
Koshien and Koshienhama Area
Naruo, Takasu, and Komatsu Area
Nishinomiyahama Area
None this week
Send us your tips!
Things That Changed on Nishitsu This Week
There are 2 items this week
The subtle update category issue
As I wrote in last week’s This Week in Nishinomiya, we fixed the issue where adding the “subtle updates” category on PC made things creepily wrap into two lines.
Specifically, we removed some low-traffic categories from this section.
That solved it nicely, so even with “subtle updates” included, it no longer wraps into two lines!
That said, after about another month, if “subtle updates” isn’t getting much traffic, we’re planning to hold another battle for category top-page display space by showing a different category instead.
We added an access counter, but…
Taking a cue from Hirakata Tsushin, we added an access counter to the top page.
Right now, it can only be seen on PC. It isn’t showing on smartphones because of a bug (T_T)
Access counters were a must-have on old-school websites. I’m an old-internet person myself, so I wanted to try adding one.
When a repeating number showed up, people would say things like “I got the milestone number,” and the top page would say something like “〇〇 got the 7777 milestone number!”
But in the end, the count differs quite a bit from the numbers used in another system, so we’re planning to stop using it for now.
Specifically, Nishinomiya Tsushin uses an access analytics system (Google Analytics) for the monthly access ranking in our access analysis, but this counter uses a different system (some PHP thing I found somewhere), so the logic is probably different, and it ends up counting way too much.
To show how different it is: the regular analytics count was 17,834, while the access counter showed 25,329, a difference of nearly 7,000.
I thought a difference of around 10% might be okay, but this is off by 40%…
We’re looking into another method. It’s not impossible to implement a counter using Analytics, but the drawback is that it makes the display about one second slower.
It’s already December. December! That was fast.
So, ahead of Christmas and the year-end season, we’re looking for story ideas like “Wouldn’t it be good to have an article like this?” I don’t think we’ll be able to use every idea, but we’d like to try more and more of the interesting ones!
