Gunkan island in Nagasaki ( world heritage site)

Nagasaki is a remarkable place in Japan, because Nagasaki's many places were decided to be world heritage sites.
One of them, I think, the most famous place is Gunkan island.

About two weeks ago, I went to Nagasaki with my family in order to visit my husband's grandpa and grandma.
Unfortunately, little children(0-6 years old) are not allowed to land gunkan island. I think this is because Gunkan island has so many old and dilapidated buildings. Little children sometimes act naughty and it could be dangrous if they go to banned places to go.

Gunkan Island (軍艦島)
Best for: 7 years old to adults
Access: You need to take part in one of gunkan island tour companies. We have some different companies in Nagasaki.
Reservation: You need to make a reservation in advance of the gunkan island tour companies.If they still have vacancy for the ship, you might be able to join the tour without reservation.
Fee: Depends on the gunkan island tour companies. For exaple, I paid 4,300yen per each person.
Gunkan island companies: Gunkan island concierge(095-895-9300),Gunkan island cruise(095-827-2470), Gunkan island tour(095-818-1105)

 I went to Gunkan island by Gunkan island concierge. The day was Saturday and the tour was full of people. They told us that about 140 people was the maximum on the ship.
I recomend, you should go and line up early before the time, because you can have seat on the second frour of the ship, where you can look over the sea and the gunkan island.

Gunkan island, was a island city of coal mine from 19th to 20th. 

At the time, coal is the most powerful energy, so the workers could have earned much better salary compared to the normal people living in Japan.

The prospering time, japanese first concrete building was built for workers and their families.

 

 

 

It had a hospital, theater, kindergarten, school, pool, police station, barber etc in this small island.

Almost all facilities you can imagine were built here.

 

 

 

 Many family had a developed machine at the time, just like TV, air conditioner.

The island has trees and plants. I don't know if it also had them in the era.

 

Most buildings are collapsing.

 

 

 

 

Only designated area is allowed to visit for guest's safe.

 

 The actual island was much bigger than I had imagined. I was thinking with deep emotion that many many years ago, people were living in this historical place.

When I was on my way home, I said goodbay to this lonely island. I would love to come back here in the future with my children again. This time, my children could not come with us because they are not more than 6 years old.


P.S ( the things I got suprised)
1.I found some people were fishing in the island. You will know how they can fish in the island when you join the gunkan island tour!
2. The service of the gunkan island tour company was so good. They always have english speaking stuffs, so don't need to worry about the language.

Nagoya Anpanman Children Museum and Park

Hello~(^-^*)/

We went to Nagoya Anpanman Museum at the beginning of this month!
Anpanman is a very famous character of japanese animation. Especially for little children!!

My daughter and son also love Anpanman sooooo much.
They enjoyed the fantastic museum with so many events and attractions.

Today, I introduce Anpanman Museum.


Nagoya Anpanman Museum 　名古屋アンパンマンこどもミュージアム&パーク
Best for: 0-6 years-old-kids
Adress:108-4 Urayasu Nagashima-cho Kuwana-shi Mie-ken Japan
Tell:0594-45-8877　（10：00～17：00）
Access: 1.Please take a direct bus from Nagoya station Bus Center and get off at Nagashima Onsen(about 40 minutes)
2.Plesase take a direct bus from JR or Kintetsu Kuwana station and get off at Nagashima Onsen(about 20 minutes)
Admission: 1500 yen
Parking: 1000 yen for 1 day

When you pay the admission fee, you can get this special toy.

ONLY for children!

press the button, and Anpanman comes out into the center window!

 

After we entered the entrance, we saw a big ferris wheel with so many anpanman characters riding.

And, we took a picture in front of the character statues.

My children loved the toy and kept playing all the time.

 

 

Big ferris wheel! You can not ride unfortunately....

 

 

In the Museum, there are almost no attraction that you can ride.

But, little children just like my daughter and son, tend to get afraid of moving attractions, so I think this style of anpanman museum is so good for little children.

On the other hand, it might be boring for over 7 years-old kids.

 

This is SUSHI restrant that kids can pretend a SUSHI chef.

 

Ice cream shop

 

 

This is Baikinman's machine

 

Jam ancle's bakery

You can pretend to make Anpanman's face!

 

 

There was a huge anpanman's photo place!

 

 

Anpanman's miniture world!

So tiny and cute!!

 

 

Besides the attractions I wrote above,

they have many events.

You can sing and dance with real anpanman and other characters.

You can watch movies on a big screen just like a movie theater!!

 

 

 

They also have shops where you can buy character goods, bakery where you can really buy anpanman's face bread.

 

We bought these popcorn cases.

You can choose two flavers butter or anko(sweet been paste)charamel popcorn.

 

 

I felt this is a fantastic place for little children, and also parents can enjoy, looking at their kids' happy faces.

Go and Enjoy with kids!!

 

Visit a farm and new ninja boots listing on etsy

Hello!(^-^)v

I have been busy recently!

I made up new ideas for etsy.

I will write about it on the end of this blog.

こんにちは～

最近、とっても忙しかったです。

エッツィの新しいアイディアを形にしたくて、

作業していました。

ブログの最後に乗せますので良かったらご覧下さい！

Well, the last weekend, we went to a farm!

The farm is located in a countryside, that might be why the farm was not crowded.

先週末、牧場にいってまいりました～

その牧場、田舎にありまして、それが理由なのかわかりませんが、全然混んでいませんでした。

After my son started to work, this was the first time for him to visit a farm.

He was extremely exited!

I was so scared to see my son touch and squeezed from tiny animal to big ones without fear.

息子があるきだしてから初めての牧場だったので、彼はもうすごく興奮して喜んでいました～

が、怖いもの知らずで、小さい動物から大きいものまで恐れなしに触って、ぐわし！と潰してしまったりするので

見てるこっちは怖くて怖くて(;_;)

They played on a huge field.

What are they talking??

広い草原でも遊んでいました。

何を話しているのかな？

My daughter said,

I want to ride on a horse! ＼(^-^)／(*^^*)

I was impressed because she used to be scared to ride on a horse.

She grew up.

娘が馬に乗りたい！っていったので

私はとっても感動しちゃいました。

前は怖い怖いっていってたのに、

子供は成長しますね！

She was swinging on the horse, which made me worried a little bit.

馬の上で左右に大きく揺れていたのでちょっと心配になっちゃったけど…

This is right after the car stopped working.

こちらは、乗り物がストップしてしまった瞬間です。

He was crying terribly.

大泣き。

I felt children's growth so much in this short trip.

今回は、子供の成長を感じられた小旅行になりました。

Another day.

My daughter became 4 years old.

Happy birthday, my sweet heart.

別の日の話ですが、

娘が4才になりました。

お誕生日おめでとう(*^▽^)/★*☆♪

Etsy.

I made up my new idea.

I sew kimono ropes outside of the ninja boots.

Customers can add their favorite charms and tassels.

エッツィの話です。

新しいアイディアがあって、それを形にしました。

ちりめん紐を地下足袋の回りに縫い付けて、飾りにします。

お好みで、チャームを追加することもできます。

Customers can also choose the kimono ropes.

ちりめん紐の種類も選べますよ～

Check my etsy store if you are interested!