From Hirakata-city, Osaka-prefecture, Japan

We went to  MUTSUYAZAKIHAMA AUTO CAMP  at 3-4 August. We like this camping site because it is cheap (ð0 for one night stay for 3 persons), good view alongside biwako lake. At summer time, temperature is rising after 9-10 AM, so we finished camping at 10:30 and drive around there. We moved to Omi imazu. There are several buildings by  William Merrell Vories  and below is imazu vories morgue.   This building was first built for 133 bank imazu branch in 1923 and is well reserved. This is vories street and there are 3 vories's building. Then we droped at shirahige shrine which is famous for guard frame in the lake. Then go to hatake no tanada  which is rice field at steep land. So there are good places in Takashima city. We love this place.

At 24 June, we went to takatsuki forest center  for barbeque. There are shiitake mushroom farm and we took them and bought them. After there, we went to temple near there. I happend to find  kabusan  temple, which is one of 33 sacred temples of west-erea. It is large and not crowded and I liked it very much.

Last week, we went to  makino camping site . At first, we planed to go makino sunny beach camping site  the day before a week but typhoon had come and we couldn't go, so this time, we chose this site. This is our first time to do camping at there where we did skiing many times. We planned to arrive there around lunch time but wife's father got injured and she had to take him to a hospital so we left our home about 4:30 p.m. and arrived there about 7:30 p.m. At first, I prepared for barbecue then pitch a tent. Next day, I waked up at 4:30 a.m. and weather was fine ! At this camping site, there are some area and most popular area is kougen free site where we stayed. We can stay there anyplace inside this area and there were many camper. It costs 4500yen ($40) per a tento and enjoy there until 12:00 a.m. There are hot-spring and we took bath after closing our tento (we couldn't take a bath last night due to be late) After taking bath, we walked around there.

Last Sunday,we did canyoning at shiga. At first, I didn't know the word "canyoning" when my wife told me if we would do canyoning. My wife's friend found this tour and we decided to do it with her family. This tour is held at oku-eigenji, higashi-oumi city, shiga prefecture. Oku-eigenji erea is very beautiful place. It is quiet, not crowded, surrounded by nature, I liked this place very much. Our family arrived the meeting place about 7:50(below). It started about 9 AM and we took wet suit, been lectured then started. We stopped our car near river and started walking. This tour was starting here and our camera is not water-resist so I put this camera at this point. It is about 1.5 hour round trip tour and we walked and swim along this river and reached water-fall place. At water fall place, we had jumped from the top of big rock to the water (about 5 m fall) and went behind water fall. It was very intersting tour. It was an ra