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 We just visited “Tree Picnic Adventure IKEDA” in Ikeda-cho in Fukui Prefecture.

We looked the adventure park over beforehand for a video shooting in September.

 As a former climber, I became very excited seeing all these activities

and wanted to try them myself.

The course for children in the adventure park area is only for children (the participants must be taller than 110cm and ones' weight must be lighter than 40kg).  Instructors stay around and keep them entertained.  I found an interesting part of this area was that there were no parents keeping their eyes on their children.  Because their safety is insured with the strong wires and there are also instructors staying with them entire time during the activities, parents feel safe leaving their children and they can enjoy participating their own activities.

Another course called “Discovery Course” is more challenging, located at a higher place from the ground than the other one and it is for older ones (the participants must be taller than 140cm and the ones’ weight must be lighter than 100kg). The course is much longer than the other one and there are 38 exciting activities.  The climbing wall which has walls that keep moving around looked a bit difficult.  

“Mega Zipline” is one of the symbol activites at the “Tree Picnic Adventure”.

Hanging from the wire and sliding down over the woods looks so refreshing.

The participants looked nervous before sliding down, but by the time they reached the goal, they were smiling.

Speaking of which, all of the participants at every activity had big smiles on their faces.

“Adventure Boat” is a river rafting with a boat for four people.  There is a ramped part at the start spot and it looked a bit scary, but they still had smiles on their faces.

There were stylish signs standing in the park.

 There were statues of owls, dogs, lesser pandas and everything in between animals.  The owl in the picture above was placed on the way to the “Mega Zipline”.  Half of this statue is bare wood and looks like Cubism art.

T.S

In Japan, from the middle of June till the end of July, it is the season of hydrangea.
I would like to share the video of “Japan Travel".
Please enjoy “Hydrangea Path on Mt. Asuwa”.

I would like to introduce a place that you can enjoy the hydrangeas in Fukui Prefecture.

It is Asuwa yama park (Mt.Asuwa Park), where you can get in about 10 mins
by car from Fukui Station.

At the park, there are about 50 kinds of animals and about 60 kinds of trees and plants.

Of course you can enjoy viewing hydrangeas as well. And as you can see in the video above,
along the street in Mt. Asuwa, pretty hydrangeas are there.
You can hike and view the flowers.

Moreover, in Mt.Asuwa, there are stylish café, traditional Japanese restaurants and shrines.

After viewing hydrangeas, I recommend you to enjoy the night view having some dinner
at one of those café and/or restaurants.

For more information:
Asuwa yama Park (Mt.Asuwa Park)

How about visiting Asuwa yama Park this year to view hydrangeas?

T.F