1) Meiji Jingu & Yoyogi Park Special – NEW!

Meeting Place and Time: Exit 2 of the MejiJinguuMae Station (on the Chiyoda or Fukutoshin Line) at 13:00
 
The program is ¥1000 and includes explanations of places along the way in English. Everyone is requested to use English only for the first hour. After that, people may speak in their preferred language, but David will use only English during the walk (until arriving at the Indonesia Festival).

13:00 – 14:00 – Walk around Meiji Shrine area (English Only Please)

14:00 – 15:00 –  Walk around Yoyogi Park

15:00 – 15:50 -Indonesia Festival (Stages, food booths, etc)

15:50 – Finished

If you can’t find us, please call David at 080-6546-7688.

Please look back at this site on the morning (anytime after 9:00) of the event to check if it is canceled due to rain.

2) BYOD Party in large 11F riverside apartment in Tsurumi where David’s friend Clyde lives. We will have a blast there.
Clyde will have food for BBQing for us, which will cost 500 yen per person. Please bring your own drinks (which we will buy on the way to Clyde’s place from the station).
You may join just the party (if you don’t go on the hike) if you’d like. Anyone is WELCOME!
Meet at the JR Keihin Tohoku Tsurumi Station ticket gate at 17:00.

Meeting Place/Time: Ashigakubo Station ticket gate at 10:32AM

Course: Ashigakubo Station – Mt. Hinata – Mt. Maruyama – Oono Pass – Ashigakubo Station

Walking time: About 4.5 hours
 
From Ikebukuro, take the Seibu Ikebukuro (Express) Line’s 9:03AM train and get off at Hanno Station, arriving there at 9:50AM. Change to the Seibu Chichibu Line (across the platform), taking the 9:53 train.  This arrives at Ashigakubo at 10:30.  Make sure to get on this train as we cannot wait for the next one.
 
People going from Ikebukuro Station can meet at the front end of the train on the Seibu Ikebukuro Line platform at 9:03, or meet at Ashigakubo’s ticket gate at 10:32. 
 
Please wear appropriate shoes (tennis shoes, hiking boots), bring a lunch to eat on the mountain, and plenty of liquids.

From 6:30-9:30pm at the Polygon (behind the Oriental Bazaar on Omotesando) For JAMBO members, the cost is 3,500 yen for men and 3,000 yen for women w/reservation (foreigners get a 500 yen discount)(or plus 500 yen if you go directly without making a reservation).

All beer, wine, cocktails, soft drinks + sushi buffet, garden salad, veggies, cheeses, breads, and pies for dessert included.

Reservations can be made with David at jambodave@green.email.ne.jp or phone (03-6599-8112) by October 9.

Half of your admission fee will be donated to SHU – The Environment NPO & Global Giving. So you can have an enjoyable evening and help a good cause at the same time.

If you’d like to go with David, please meet at Exit A1 of Omotesando Station at 6:15PM on the 10th.

7:00 pm – Come meet other people interested in volunteerism and help plan for a volunteer booth at the Koto Festival, which will be held on October 17 – 18. http://www.meetup.com/Jambo-Volunteer-Networking/

7:00 – 8:00 – Festival Planning
(Limit 15 (for this planning session), Reservations required by October 8)

8:00 – 9:15 – Get-together while eating and drinking (Free if you bring some snacks/drinks OR ¥500 for the snacks/drinks we provide)

JAMBO Volunteers are needed to help out at a volunteer booth at the Koto Central Citizens Festival on October 17 and 18 (10:00 – 16:00). This is a very large festival with many volunteer groups, food and drink. Volunteers are asked to commit to one or two hours, and do something that you are skilled at, such as:
Teach your native language (short 10-minute private lessons)
Do a fun game
Teach a handicraft which you know
ANY IDEAS ARE WELCOME (please come and share your ideas)
Venue: JAMBO School – 東京都江東区富岡 1-26-13-203 (Shimada Bld. Room 203) (a 3 minute walk from MonzenNakaCho Station)

In case of hard rain, we will meet at Takasanguchi Station at 3:00PM to go to the beer garden.

(Participation Fee 1000 yen)   We will hike from Sagami Lake to Mt. Takao (about a 4 hour hike and hit the Mt. Takao Beer Garden at about 4:00PM. (3500 yen for men and 3300 yen for women – all you can eat and drink for 2 hours)　HP: http://www.takaotozan.co.jp/beermnt/  

We will meet at the Sagamiko station ticket gate at 11:12AM   Please bring your lunch and drink.
 
Train Schedule
10:00 Leave Shinjuku Station on the Keio Line (Express going towards Keio Hachiouji)
10:35 Arrive at Kitano Station and change to the Chuo Line
10:38 Take the Keio Local Line (towards Takaosanguchi)
10:48 Arrive at Takao Station and change to the Chuo Line
11:01 Take the Chuo Line (towards Ootsuki)
11:10 Arrive at Sagamiko Station  

If you’d like to go with David, please meet at the front car of the Keio Line train of Shinjuku Station at 10:00.
For those who only go to the beer garden, you can probably hook up with the hiking group there at around 4:00PM.

From Shinjuku, take the Special Holiday Express train going towards Okutama (it’s the Chuo Line but may be on another track which is not the main Chuo Line track – BE CAREFUL!) to Okutama (leaving Shinjuku at 8:19 and arriving at Okutama at 9:51). 

David will be at the Okutama Station ticket gate at 10:00 to bring you to the supermarket (where you can get food and drink) and the river. We’ll hang out on the river for a while, and then go for a hike, swimming here and there along the way.

COURSE: Okutama Station – Tama River – Mt. Atago – Shiromaru Dam – Hatonosu Gorge – Hatonosu Station

 Please bring your lunch and drinks.

Moonlit Acoustic Music in the Forest. Sat. Midnight to Sun. Dawn

A JAMBO – Light Footprint joint event1
1:00 AM to 8:30 AM　

Guests are welcome to bring a musical instrument and join in.

We have a beautiful venue which is designed as a forest stroll for handicapped nature lovers.  It is wheelchair accessible, and only a short walk from the station..  The concert is from midnight to dawn, technically on Sunday, the 27th of September, but you have to leave Tokyo late Saturday night to arrive on or before the last train.   Here is the data:

We’ll meet at the last train, last stop — Okutama station at 00:40.  (The last departure from Shinjuku is at 22:40 Saturday on the Chuo Line, arriving in Tachikawa at 23:12 and changing there to the Oume line, leaving at 23:21 and arriving in Okutama at 00:33) We then stroll up through the sleeping town and forest to the top of a path that has several performance spaces, seats and tables, a little stream, a well-lit toilet… Candle lanterns and live music in the open air by the light of the moon.  Please bring your own midnight snack, there is no catering. It will be cool enough for a sweater or a second long-sleeve layer. Sampling others’ beverages seems likely, so bring a cup or glass.  Also, a flashlight or headlamp, a musical instrument ( in case impromptu jams with the professional musicians ). Pat will pack in the telescope so we can moon gaze with resolution ( but bring any optics – binoculars, opera glasses- that you might have to point at the  moon).  Pat will also bring some hammocks for recumbent listening pleasure. A yoga mat could enhance the experience of looking upward while listening….

Between sets, we’ll walk down to the next stage and settle in for some more acoustic tunes.  

Cost: ¥3000 (which includes the JAMBO hiking event on Sunday).
This event is limited to 30 people and reservations can be made with Pat Utley at  pat@global-language.biz.

After the last set, we’ll make our way back to the train station in time for first train – the 05:07, which gets one into Shinuku before 7. Or stay and come down to the riverside for a campfire and cowboy coffee.  Then spend the morning in the mountain air and join the JAMBO hike.  Or there is a month-long Arts Festival going on in Okutama, so you can visit exhibitions, explore hiking trails, nap in the shade by the river….

We will meet at the gate of KamiOoi Station (on the Gotenba Line) at 10:40 AM.
 
9:12  Depart Shinbashi on the JR Tokkaido Line (going towards Atami)
10:17　Arrive at Kouzu
10:28  Depart Kouzu on the JR Gotenba Line (going towards Gotenba)
10:37　Arrive at Shin KamiOoi
 
If you’d like to ride together, please get on the front car of the train
 
COURSE: KamiOoi Station – Spider Lillies Field – Agricultural Village Park – Mt. Fuji Viewpoint – Shin Matsuda Station

The course description (in Japanese) is at
http://www.town.oi.kanagawa.jp/kanko/spot/h_fujimi.html

Walking Time: 4 hours

Please bring your lunch, plenty of drinks and good walking shoes

We meet at Miyanohira Station at 10:15AM. Take the 9:09AM Oume Line  Express train (it’s a Chuo Line train that goes all the way to Oume) from Shinjuku Station. This arrives at Ome Station at 10:07.  Go across the platform and take the 10:09 train towards Okutama. This train arrives at MiyanoHira Station at 10:12. Be sure to arrive by this time since we will be unable to wait for the next train.
 
Meet on the front of the 9:09 train at Shinjuku if you want to go from there there. David will get on the first car of the same train at Nakano Station.
 
Hiking Course – Miya no Hira Station – Oume Ridge Hiking Course – Shiofune Goddess of Mercy & KasumiKyuuryou Nature Park (22,000 Spider Lillies) – Kama no Fuchi Park (swim on the Tama River) – Oume Station

Today’s hiking is about 4 hours. 
 
Please wear appropriate shoes (tennis shoes, hiking boots), bring a lunch to eat on the mountain, and plenty of liquids.

Please take a look:

http://www.enjoytokyo.jp/amuse/event/682117/ 　ー　KasumiKyuuryou Nature Park
http://www.enjoytokyo.jp/amuse/event/682116/ 　ー　Shiofune Goddess of Mercy
http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=釜の淵公園&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8 　ー　Kama no Fuchi Park

(Cutting bamboo grass, picking up chestnuts)

10:00 – 15:30
(Participation Fee – 500 yen) (Canceled in case of rain)

RESERVATIONS REQUIRED by September 10.

Meeting Place: 10:04 at Utsugidai Bus Stop
 
Please wear long pants and long-sleeved shirt and exercise shoes.
 
Please bring your own drinks, food (for lunch) and work gloves.
Those who wish to go with David, please meet at Hino Station (on the Chuo Line) ticket gate at 9:40. We will take the 9:46 bus from there (18 minutes).
 
Information (in Japanese): http://www.foejapan.org/satoyama/activity/index.html

LIMIT: 15 people