Our Garden Gate

This is the garden gate we have now. It has a combination lock. This is not a typical gate. In the past, delivery people used to come into our gate, open up the front door, stand in the entry hall, and shout for us to come to the door. We have lot of deliveries, but other salespeople whom we don't know come, too. I miss the old way, but this gate provides more privacy.

When we want to enter the gate, we have to push on this little door at the top right hand corner of the gate.

The door opens to reveal buttons. We have a combination of numbers that we have to push. Then we have to push the bottom button that says "endo" or "end".

When a visitor or a delivery person comes, he has to ring the doorbell to talk to us. There are two doorbells (on the right). The top one has a 2F sticker on it. The other has 1F sticker. We live on the second floor. Baba and Aunt live on the first floor.

There is an intercom and camera on the doorbells, too. We can see and talk to a visitor or delivery person from the first floor and from the second floor. We can open the gate from both floors. We can also talk to the first floor from the second floor using the intercom.

The long slot under the name plate is the mailbox.

This is the mailbox on the inside of the gate. We lift the door to get the mail. The button next to the mailbox opens the gate from the inside. There is also a latch on the inside of the gate.