A Japanese culture experience event called Setagaya Cool was held on September 17, 2011.

　Setagaya Cool is a Japanese culture experience event that anyone can participate. While enjoying the Japanese atmosphere in the space with an Irori, foreign people can experience Onsen, Shodou (calligraphy) and Sadou and discover the appeal of Japan. It was an attempt to enhance reception of Japanese and foreign people through an extraordinary experience.

Setagaya Cool was held in Yamakawa Onsen which is located in FutakoTamagawa, Setagaya Tokyo. There may be people that will be surprised about an Onsen existing in Tokyo but it is located in FutakoTamagawa, 15minutes away by train from Shibuya, and 10 minute walk from FutakoTamagawa. I also did not know there was a large Onsen in the middle of Tokyo so I was surprised.

The participants experience three activities, Shodou, Sadou, and Onsen. It first began with the greeting by Takahashi Tatsuzou, the representative.

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On September 3rd 2011, the largest fashion festival that all of the fashionable girls were waiting for “Tokyo Girls Collection 2011 Autumn/Winter” (TGC) was held at the Saitama Super Arena. TGC is a fashion festival that has been going on for 13 years now, with their theme of “Sending out Japan’s real clothing to the world” since 1995.
This time the theme was “Smile for ‘ ‘ (Smile for parenthesis)”, based on the Tohoku Earthquake that happened on March 11th, there is the message “Through TGC we want to make everyone smile” behind it. The ‘ ‘ in the theme is left blank for people around the world to be able to express different thoughts and feelings.

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This time, we have the Haneda strolling guide. We mainly walked from Keikyu line Otorii station to Anamori-inari station.
It was sunny and breezy, a perfect day to go on a stroll! First when you arrive in Otorii station, we recommend you exit the west exit. After a while you arrive at Haginaka Park.

It was morning on a weekday, but there were a lot of children coming to play.

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