hotaru watching at Uji-city
We went to Uji at Kyoto-prefecture to watch hotaru(firefly) at Uji city park. (Jun. 15 sat). Last year, we went to watch hotaru near our home, but this place was damaged by last year's heavy rain, so I was searching another hotaru-watching places by internet and finally I found this place. Uji-city is located next to kyoto-city, and it is near my home (about 30 min by train or 1 hour by car) and it hosts world heritage " byoudou-in " and other good temples. I like this place because there is a uji-river and scenary around this river is very beautiful. At first, we went to tea-shop " uji iemon " at 1:30 pm. This day, weather was very bad (heavy rain) but it was very crowded so we had to wait about 1 hour to enter shop! Maybe one of the reason why might be that this day (15 Jun) was the first day of uji-river cormorant fishing. After finish eating, we went to uji city-park. This park always ended about 5 pm, but this 3 weeks was speci