36th Atsugi Green Festival

The 36th Atsugi Green Festival was held this week end. Saturday was a extremely rainy day. Even so, the event was not canceled and hearing from the nurserymen/gardeners, many people came... not me. Anyway I wanted to go there on Sunday because of the Shinkenger show. Remember the Iiyama Sakura festival. Same heroes but a different company, so different gags but as enjoyable for kids, especially when they can shake hands.

Right before the show, and 3 other times in the day, the kind of Atsugi Green Association was offering some flowers. 4 kinds so 4 long queues which started 30 min before the distribution, 1 plant per person. Some local shops were also providing different kind of goods, food and advices for your garden or bonsai. Of course you can find the basic set of every matsuri : okonomiyaki, takoyaki, yakisoba, choco-banana... shops. Even the proximity of Sanwa Supermarket does not make prices lower. There were also various kind of flowers and trees that we could purchase directly.

The Wakamiya park has a Steam Locomotive on display as you know now. There is also a long track for a mini-SL but I never seen anything running on it since I am here. That was a good opportunity to try both steam and electric type of mini train. We could guess that a local association of passionnate people are taking care of this. It was free to ride the trains and free to take a look inside the huge steam machine.

The event is few days before the こどもの日 (child's day on may 5th) and we hook on fabric carps as a symbol of strength and courage (it was the former boy's day against the girl's ひなまつり on march 3rd). The Wakamiya park has a huge row of carps floating in the middle of the pond. Impressive.

Wakamiya Midori Festival

36th Atsugi Green Festival

April 25 (sat) ~ April 26 (sun) from 10am to 4pm


第３６回厚木市緑のまつり(36kai Atsugi Midori no Matsuri) will be held in the Morinosato's Wakamiya Park. Different activities and performances will be held during the week end such as classic Rakugo (26th 1pm), Harmonica concert, dance and the indefatigable Shinkenger show (26th 11am & 2:15pm).

Kids (and parents) will be able to ride a Mini Steam Locomotive on the dedicated track, in front of the displayed D51 SL, west of the park (26th only)

More detailed infos on Atsugi Kankou HP (jp)

Nanasawa Shirin Park

Nanasawa Koen est un parc immense. Plusieurs posts seront necessaires a le decrire. Aujourd'hui je commencerai par l'aire de jeux. The Athletics ou parcours du combattant comme j'avais l'habitude d'appeler ca.

L'entree la plus proche se fait devant l'ecole primaire de Morinosato. Il n'y pas de parking a cet endroit. En montant vers l'aire, on a une vue surplombant tout Morinosato.

Les jeux proposes sont a ma grande surprise nombreux et de bonne facture. Equilibre et force, de quoi rassasier vos marmots..

Nanasawa Park