Ogino Pool

During the summer break (obon yasumi) the weather was terribly hot. It is still hot somehow. I went further times to the municipal swimming pool at Ogino Sports Park. (Ogino undo koen). This is cheap 400¥ for an adult and a discount for a kid. Mines are even youngers so it is free for them, I think until elementary school.
There is a ticket machine which provide you a magnetic card to enter. You validate in and out. It helps counting the folks inside the pool. You will have the number on the top of the information counter. The day I found out about this information board, there were 75 peoples. The outside 50m pool is open only during the summer break. It was a heavy rainy day so most of the swimmers were in the inside 25m pool and I would say this is good enough. More would be too crowded for me
You can get a prepaid card. You pay 3000¥ and you get a 500¥ present. (2000¥+300¥ also available) This is the same money for residents and non-residents of Astugi-town.
Take the small plastic back to put your shoes in. The locker place has closing lockers. 10¥ needed that you can get back.
Babies need to be clean. No dipper, no swimming dipper. The outside pool is allowed for kids from elementary. Inside, you have a 30cm deep pool.
You can have any kind of swim suit. You must have a swim cap.

Something I never experienced in France, the safety break. Every one hour (...h20) you will be asked to leave the pool so the staff can check if nobody's diving... They check the temperature, acidity, dive and clean up the big stuffs (bandages, broken goggles, lost keys...)

The water is far to be perfectly clean but it is same level that what I could find in France. I did not mind, my wife did a little bit.

You also have individuals showers and a sauna.

39 males inside

If you forget your cap or goggles, they do not borrow. You can buy an Mizuno official product @ official prices. (~1000¥ the cap that you can get for 200¥ in any Department store)

Open from 9h30 to 20h20

Parking lot behind Saty

Open from 8am to 12am

300¥ the first hour

150¥ each following 30min

 You may get some free parking tickets after a purchase in Saty departement store. Sorry, I do not know the fees, I went there to have a baby health check in a city building near by. (click on the pic, it is geolocated)

Yamakita town - Suite

After our trip to the Shasui Falls, we asked around some place to visite or drive through. That was not particulary helpful and just driving without any goal was just enough. Then we found some area map and decided a target. An archeological site surrounded by a park. We stopped at the end of the road and continue by walk. Surpisingly, some Sunday hickers were already around. The site and park are impressive by their emptyness. This is damn quiet! which is good. We finished some snacks and continue our trip.

on the way to the castle ruines (map)

Do you see a teddy bear?

Tomei Highway

The place is full of "mikan" trees.

Yamakita town - Shasui Falls

It's been a while I have been there. I do not even rememeber if I posted something on this place. I did not update my posts-to-write-list so forgive me if I write something about it again.
I first picked up this Yamakita town area on google maps because we've never been ther. Then with few clicks on the Kanagawa Tourist page, I found out about some tiny tourist spots.
First place was the Shasui Waterfall. To get there you can find a small free parking right in front of the entrance. You walk then through a temple and unfortunately the place out of the hot season, is forbidden. Impossible approach the little red bridge. The small temple has a free natural water source. Peaple get there with bottles and huge packs.

Jinzos around

Sisinkai Headquarters

Last fall, I was driving around looking for a spot to eat a bento. I found this road, wide and clean. It looked like an entrance for a temple. Yes, I looked like a temple but I have never seen such kind of architecture in Shinto or Boudhist. This is the headquarters of the Sisinkai. The 思親会 is a new religion of the Lotus sutra system. Religion founded in 1938, feb 11th.
This is the only information I could get so I imagine it as a minor religion.

Here a slideshow from someone who went there during the Sakura

http://www6.ocn.ne.jp/~tougaku/top/006kankou/004sisinkai/sisinkai.htm
Map

C'est la fete a la grenouille

Voila ce que j'ai trouve sur le petit muret qui borde la porte d'entree du jardin. Alors que je rangeais mon velo sous la pluie, j'ai d'abord vu cette forme flasque avant d'identifier la bete. Mon portable ne prenant pas de photo extraordinaire, voila ce que j'ai pu en tirer.

Il ne fait pas beau l'ete au Japon

Le temps est gris pourri, il pleut souvent, il fait deja chaud, presque 30 degres. Beta-beta. Ca signifie moite. On l'est des qu'on fait un semblant d'effort.
Mon parapluie en plastique transparent est mon meilleur ami.
Je regarde le foot. Je suis derriere Japon car il n'y a plus que ca a supporter pendant que les francais font le menage dans leurs rangs.