- Koto Ward Double Hike & Kiba Festival
(Easy, Participation Fee 700 yen for the day (or 500 yen for only morning or only afternoon)・Cancelled in case of rain)
Meeting Time/Place: 10:00AM at Higashi Ojima Station (Toei Shinjuku Line) Ticket Gate or 3:00PM at Kiba Station (Tozai Line) Exit 3 (at the street level)
Course: Higashi Ojima Station – OjimaKomatsugawa Park – Arakawa Riverside Walk – Sendaiborigawa Park Canal Walk – Kiba Park (Central Koto Festival) 1:00 – 3:00 – Kiba Station – Canal Walk – BotanCho Park – Echujima Park (on the Sumida River) Aomibashi Park – Toyosu Park (See the sunset on Tokyo Bay?) – Toyosu Station
Walking Time: About 5 Hours (12KM) The morning walk is about 3 hours and the afternoon is about 2 hours. At the end of the afternoon walk, we can play frisbee, eat and drink in the park while watching the sunset on Tokyo Bay.
Please see http://www.city.koto.lg.jp/101032/kurashi/komyunitei/kumin/chuo/55.html for the festival (only in Japanese)
For those joining along the way, please contact David at 080-6546-7688.
We are also looking for volunteers to help at the LVC (Language Volunteer Koto-ku) booth at the festival between 1:00 and 3:00PM. Volunteers can stay a short time (like 20 minutes) or longer (1-2 hours). They will do English card (vocabulary) games with passers by, or simply talk with them about whatever topic they’d like. It’s a great chance to meet some Japanese people who would like to speak with you in English, talk about yourself (your country, etc) and it would help out a wonderful volunteer group (LVC). Please let David (jambodave@green.email.ne.jp) know if you would like to help out.
2) Edogawa River Clean Up, Picnic & Spa/Swimming
Part 1 River Clean Up: We will gather at Barakinakayama Station ( just outside of the north exit ticket gate exit from 12:00 noon, and from about 12:10 go to the Edogawa River by car (about 5 min.) and begin picking up trash along the banks as we walk toward the mouth of the river where it empties into Tokyo Bay. From about 3:30 pm we will take a rest at the mouth of the river at Tokyo Bay and begin setting up for a picnic overlooking Tokyo Bay.
Part 2 Picnic overlooking Tokyo Bay: From 4:00pm we will have an early dinner picnic in front of Tokyo Bay. There will be a Y1,000 admission for the picnic with all food and drinks provided (+Y500 for picnic guests drinking beer/wine/chuhai). We’ll have some seats and tables, sun cover set up as well.
Part 3 The Ichikawa Clean Spa (optional):After the picnic some guests may wish to visit the Ichikawa Clean Spa (only 4-5 minutes away on foot). If so bring a swimming suit, cap, towel and goggles. Facility entrance is Y200. Then entrance to the pool area is plus Y300 and entrance to the sento/rotemburo area is plus Y500. The Clean Spa also has courtesy shuttle buses to return people to area train stations.
Recommended: Hat, long-sleeve shirt (for sun protection), gloves, walking/hiking shoes, generally older clothing that you don’t mind getting a little dirty. The clean up route will is nearly all dry so rubber boots will not be necessary.Let’s have fun enjoying our local nature while making it better at the same time. If you will attend this picnic please be sure to click going or e-mail the event leader, James, at yaesukita(at)gmail.com as he has to prepare the food and drinks for the picnic.
If you come late, walk to the river alongside the Tozai Line and go to the river and walk toward Tokyo Bay at the water line until you see us. Also call my cell phone 090-1847-5075 if there are any problems finding us. The adjacent park has restrooms nearby the clean up area.
