One of my first adventures in Japan was to visit the Sarushima or Monkey Island. You can see this uninhabited island from Yokosuka Main Base. You can take a short ferry ride across the bay to the island from Mikasa Terminal in Mikasa Park. Here is the website: https://www.tryangle-web.com/en/sarushima/faq.html Please keep in mind this is a popular tourist site so if you can avoid Japanese holidays then you may find the adventure more relaxing. I would recommend no strollers because there are a lot of stairs but you can avoid them if you must bring one. I wish I had brought sand toys and a swimsuit for my toddler. She had so much fun playing on the beach. Currently (2021) there are some areas closed to the public due to COVID and weather damage and the beach is closed to swimming. You may still wade and splash in the water at the edge of the beach. Above you can see the view from one of the hiking trails on the island. The website says it is a: "former Japanese Army artillery and fortress marks, and the whole of Sarushima is designated as a “National Historic Site”. You can walk around these fortress areas. You can enjoy fishing and BBQ by watching the sea on the beach, and the island’s Take Out Restaurant “Sarushima Oceans Kitchen” all year round. You can also enjoy swimming in summer."
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We have set up KPHS as a school group so that we can take field trips to Kidzania as an EAP program. This means that we can get an English speaking tour guide to take our children to five reserved activities. For more information on this program please message one of the board members. The next field trip to Kidzania is the 1st Session on August 31. We do not have an EAP program planned so just visit the website below to purchase admission. We will carpool from Yokosuka at 7am and Ikego at 7am. http://www.kidzania.jp/tokyo/en/webreserv/ More trips to come! Seven Lucky Gods TourKamakura 7 Lucky Gods tour is one you can do on your own or I feel like we can organize one. After all what better way learn more about Japan than to experience it first hand? Email [email protected] if you would like to go on a Wednesday afternoon. Every year there is a short time-frame for the Zushi/Hayama Seven Lucky Gods Tour. This year two families from Kanto Plains Homeschoolers braved the tour. We used these directions: 1. Koshoji 2 Chome-20-17 Numama, Zushi, Kanagawa Prefecture 249-0004, Japan 2. Toshoji 2 Chome-8-33 Ikego, Zushi, Kanagawa Prefecture 249-0003, Japan 3. Enmei-ji Temple 3 Chome-1-17 Zushi, Kanagawa Prefecture 249-0006, Japan 4. 宗泰寺 Japan, 〒249-0005 Kanagawa Prefecture, Zushi, Sakurayama, 7 Chome−7−1 5. Gyokuzoin 2154 Isshiki, Hayama, Miura District, Kanagawa Prefecture 240-0111, Japan 6. Chounji 615 Nagae, Hayama, Miura District, Kanagawa Prefecture 240-0113, Japan 7. 仙光院 Japan, 〒240-0113 Kanagawa Prefecture, Miura District, Hayama, Nagae, 1439 Recently, the KPHS Zoology class made a trip to the Yokohama Silk Museum. (English link) This is small, but very well done museum at the Silk Center, near the Nihon-odori Station off the Minatomirai Subway Link. Entrance is just 500 yen for adults and 200 yen for students. The museum consists of two floors. The bottom is a wonderful display of hands-on activities and English descriptions; the kids loved it here. Upstairs is more of the history of silk garments in Japan. Overall, it was a very enjoyable visit. Small but quite fascinating. Most of the kids liked it better than they thought they would. It won't take long to tour the museum, but there are several other centers in the area to see. You are also not far from Chinatown or Landmark Tower. Enjoy a nice walk along the water too.
Located on Odaiba Island, the Museum of Emerging Science is a great science center and home of Asimo the robot. Museum hours are 10:00- 17:00 and is closed on Tuesdays. Adults are 620 yen, children under 18 are 210 yen. Admission also includes one program at the Dome Theater. Group rates are available when made in advance. Special exhibits are extra. Annual passes are available.
The museum can be reached by a short walk from Funhe-no Kagakukan or Telecom Center stations on the Yurikamome line. 175 parking spaces are available for a fee.
The next special exhibit opens July 2, 2014 and runs through October 5: Toilet: Human Waste and Earth's Future. Admission for adults will be 1200 yen.
Located in the Decks shopping center on Odaiba is the Legoland Discovery Center. If you have young Legomaniacs this is the place for them. Tickets can be ordered online to fit with your schedule. Entry is limited so you’ll be given a time to enter. Online price is 1500 yen, compared to the walk up price of 2200 yen. Hours are from 10-4. If you really like the experience, annual passes are also available: 6000 yen individually, or 22,000 yen for a family of four. The Discovery Center is small, but full of activities! A factory tour, lasar ride, 4D cinema, and much more. One can easily spend several hours here. Although designed for all ages, it really is geared towards younger, smaller kids. Tweens would enjoy the build area, but may be too big for the play park. There is a café and at the end of the center, a good-sized Lego store. The Nissan Water Park is located in Shin Yokohama next to Nissan Stadium. A fun indoor water park with slides, Jacuzzis and more. Swim caps are required but they sell or rent them there. They have a machine that you use to purchase a ticket before you enter. Then before you leave you scan the same ticket into another machine that determines if you owe more money. It's 500 yen per hour for an adult and I think 250 yen per hour for kids to 13. They had 22 water features including a lazy river, slide, hot tubs, a pool that you lay down and the water bubbles up under you, cold and hot pools to wade through, an aroma room, steam room, sauna. Hours: 0900-2100, closed the third Tuesday of each month. Located in Yokohama, not far from Queen’s East/Landmark Tower shopping mall is the Cup Noodles Museum. Take the Minato Mirai line to the Minato Mirai exit, it’s on the otherside of Cosmo World. This museum celebrated Cup Noodles. Not only a museum exhibit, but also allows for hands’ on activities. You can decorate and put together your very own Cup Noodles. If planned ahead of time and with a translator, you can make your own noodles. He most popular part of the museum is the food court, featuring noodles from around the world—all for 300 yen each. It’s fun to have each member of your group get a different noodle bowl to taste and share. There are even specialty desserts and drinks. Countries include Italy, Thailand, China, Malaysia and Kazakhstan. For smaller children, there is a play structure. Admission to the museum is free for kids and just 500 yen for adults. All activities are an additional 300 yen each. Bring change if you can as you make your purchases from a machine. Hours are 9:00-19:00. There is a small parking lot with just 40 spots. The museum does well handling large groups with advanced notice. A very nice art museum located just across from the train station. As its title suggests, here you will find over 4500 pieces of art from the great Western masters including Rubens, Monet, Chagall and Picasso. The real treat to this museum is the traveling exhibits that come through. They change regularly so keep an eye out on what’s coming. Some past collections have included Goya, Renoir, Impressionists. There is also a beautiful sculpture garden to enjoy outside. Hours are 9:30 to 5:30, Fridays 9:30 to 8:00. Closed Mondays. Admission to the permanent exhibits is just 430 yen for adults and free for students. Special exhibits are an added fee. National Museum of Nature and Science in Ueno Park is a great way to spend a day. It is located in Ueno Park near Ueno station, making it easily accessible from the New Sanno Hotel on the Hibiya Line. Hours are 9-5 and closed on Mondays (it is open for national holidays falling on a Monday, but then closed on Tuesday). Admission is reasonable at 620 yen for adults and free for kids! Special exhibits will be an additional fee. There are two parts to the museum, the first in the main building is the Japan Gallery and deals with Japanese history. You can find Hachiko, the dog from Shibuya, here. The second part is a short walk out to the next building and is where all the “fun stuff” can be found, as my kids would say. Keep in mind that there are three floors up, and three floors down—the first time we went, we didn’t realize there was a down too. On the second floor, there is a complete hand’s on area. Plan to spend at least a couple of hours here, possibly more if you can’t get your kids out. There is a nice gift shop and a café too. |
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