From Hirakata-city, Osaka-prefecture, Japan

My workplace has changed to kobe in July so we went to kobe for sightseeing there. This is around minatogawa-park underground station. minatogawa park. We ate lunch there. After lunch, we walked around JR kobe station. There held basketball game. And walked around.. Motomachi shopping street. It is famous shop "roushouki" and we ate butaman. We walked around chinise town. Then second break time at sannomiya. That's over our fun time.

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 !

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

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

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