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Soroban school

Recently, my son went to soroban school near our house (2min. By walk from our house ) This school is held in private house so it dose not seem like "school". Soroban is very good custom in Japan, I think, because they use fingures very rapidly so it stimulate brain. Soroban specialist can calculate adding, multiplication without soroban. It is amazing ! He likes soroban school because he can play outside with their friends after finising soroban school !

Mini 4WD

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When we went to shizuoka, we went to sumpu takumi-juku and took part in plastic model making course. My son made dangan-racer which is one of mini 4WD series and enjoyed very much. Dangan-racer is small plastic-model toy car, running very fast. But it needed special circuit couse so if we want to run this car, we have to find hobby shop which has special circuit couse, so we went to hobby shop( hobby zone ) where it has special circuit couse. on 6 Sep. There were special course but too small and it is for mini 4WD. In this shop, there are many mini 4WD plastic model exhibited and they are about 1000yen included motor, not so expensive, so we want to buy it. This shop plans to do racing event this month, that's one reason we bought mini 4WD. Then we went to mini 4WD tournament. There were much people. Many people had their special tools ! We participated in junior school tournament. Race was done with 3 times rou

Camp at north of Kyoto (21 Sep.)

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Second day, I got up at 5 am and it was cool, not cold but a little cold morning. I boilded water for coffee and morning soup. After eating breakfast and pulled down a tent, we walked around there. We climbed up to the hill for big stone called "asobi ishi", but after walking up about 20 min., we found big honey comb in front of the stone ! After enjoying walking, we left there and drove around tango peninsula. First, we went to kumihama, beautiful small village. Then drove through Route 178 to north-east, then south. We reached to ine where many houses were in front of the sea. These houses have ship garages inside houses. Then final distination,amano-hashidate. At first, I planed to go to maizuru but when we arrived there, it was 3:40 pm, so changed plan. Amano-hashidate was large so there are 2 spot, north and south, and both have ropeway. We walked around north erea and it was very b

Camp at north of Kyoto (20 Sep)

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Sep. 19-23 is 5 days holiday (called silver week), so I planed to make an overnight trip to somewhere near here. There were several plan, going to dinosaur museum at fukui, or driving to amano-hashidate through newly constructed kyoto-highway, staying hotel or camping. But when we checked hotel or camping erea, allmost all of them were already reserved. But at 19, I happend to find small camping park ( okuyama nature exploration park at tango peninsula) so we suddenly prepared trip and left home at 8:40 AM, sunday 20. Kyoto hightway was opend 2 month before so I was wondering heavy traffic, but traffic was smooth from yamazaki IC to terminal yosa amano-hashidate IC, so we reached caming park at noon (11:50). There are 2 type of camping erea, both of them were 1500 yen - 2000 yen per overnight, all person(very cheap), and there were no other people so we selected flat type site near river. After making a tent, we ate lunch. Afterthat, we drove to kinosai

Recent glasses

Recently, we saw many low-price glasses companies in Japan. JINS was maybe established first in this field, and Zoff, Owndays was followed, as far as I know. My eye is very weak so I need high refractive glasses. Only Owndays doesn't need extra money so I selected Owndays. I bought 5980 yen(tax included 6400 yen)  plan with 1.67 refractive index and I could also select 1.71 one but I choosed 1.67 one.  My old glasses which I bought about 5 years ago was about over 20000 yen so it is very cheap !  We can buy good things with cheap prices !

Kumano Trip, 5 May

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Last day, after eating breakfast, we went to kusumoto sushi located near the hotel to buy sanma sushi box. But arriving this shop, we found that sanma sushi is sold for pre-orderd customers and they said we can buy their merchandise at supermarket so we went to o-kuwa to buy it.  We could buy sanma-sushi at o-kuwa. We left the hotel at 10 AM. In front of the hotel, we found beautiful sea shore. There are so many sea urchins. After that, we went to shiono-misaki which is a location located southest at honsyu-island. At shiono-misaki, there are rockey sea shore so we challenged to go there. There were pathway to there. After that, we went to shiono-misaki light station. We can climb it ! And the 3 days holiday was over and we left there at 3 PM and via wakayama-city to eat dinner 7 PM, we arrived our home at 11 PM. Very intersting holiday !