From Hirakata-city, Osaka-prefecture, Japan

We went there after 2 years' absence.  Last time we had been there, he had cried, but this time he enjoyed dinosaurs.

We went to Iga-ueno city to see Ninja show. Recently, my son likes ninja, and he practice how to make syuriken by origami-paper at kindergarden and Iga-ueno is the place where I wanted to go, so we went there at 21 July. It was about 1.5 hour by car and we arrived there about 1 p.m. and ate lunch at okonomiyaki shop " Ito ". This shop is like normal house, and we make okonomiyaki by ourself and we order big size okonomiyaki and big size yakisoba and cost 1230 yen ($12) and tasted very good ! After eating, we went to NINJA MUSEUM of Igaryu . And inside this museum, there hold Ninja show (needed extra cost 300 yen per person) and the last show started at 3 p.m. so we safely watched the last show. This show was very good and after watching this show, my son tried syuriken.  After this show, we walked through this museum and there were tour-guide so they navigate us and telling the story of ninja's life.

We went to the exhibition of Ukiyo-e of Utagawa Kuniyoshi. ( map ) Utagawa Kuniyoshi is not so popular compared with Ando Hiroshige, Hokusai, Syaraku but some of his painting is popular (I know some of his unique painting) so this exhibition seemed to be intersting to me. This exhibition is held at Osaka city museum at tennouji and the erea around tennouji-station is recently reconstructed rapidly, so we planed to walk around this erea and ate lunch and afterthat went to the exhibition. We first went to the shop "Abeno and" and had lunch inside this building we then passed through tennouji park to osaka city museum because this museum is located in this park. We can see the tuutenkaku tower over there. this is osaka city museum Afterthat, we went back to the shopping erea and went to the newly-opened shopping center Q's mall. This day, many people were coming there.

We went to the natinal museum of modern art, kyoto to see the exhibition of Paul Klee . (we often get ticket from newspaper shop) ( map ) miyako messe Kyoto kaikan inside museum The exhibition is very good, and we walked around kyoto-town. heian jinguu The scenary along river from heian-jingu to sijyou is very beautiful. I like there.

We got some tickets so went to the nishinomiya-city otani museum and saw "2010 Original picture exhibition of Bologna International picture book festival" (Bologna Fiera del Libro per Ragazzi). It was first time to go to Otani museum and it was a very good museum because it has a beautiful garden in it and atmosphire was very good so we liked it. Furthermore, its" exhibition was very good and pictures were very intersting and cool. We always read picture books for our son so we are accustomed to picture books, that's one reason we liked this exhibition. Afterthat, we went to motomachi-station at kobe-city and went to daimaru-dep. museum to see the " RIMPA, JAKUCHU and the world of elegance -selection for the hosomi collection, kyoto ". It was also good but impression of otani museum was so strong that we finished watching them about 20 min. After such things, it was evening time and around there was very beautiful in color an light.

Ooji-zoo ( MAP ) is a famous and very popular zoo at Kansai. Today was fine day and it is in the "golden-week" vacation time, so we left home at 9:30 and took train about 1.5 hour. Arriving at Nada station where japanese sake is famous. From station to the zoo, it took about 5 min to walk.This erea is calm and nice place. When we arrived there, there were so many people because it was the best season to go around. Elephant! I didn't see elephant for a long time so it was fresh to me, but my son was tired so he didn't show attention. This zoo have many places to be watched and it took about one day to go around, so we(me and he) are a little tired to walk (my wife took the picture). After sleep about 10 min, we went to aquarium and it is very nice because we could watch penguin through the water and the color of water was very wonderful! And this zoo's most popular animal is Panda. After leaving zoo about 3:40 pm, we walked to the south to go to "Nagisa park&