Misaki playing down by the Chikuma River (with her souvenir from Okinawa)
戸倉上山田温泉の真ん中に千曲川がせっかく流れているから、時々川とのふれあいをしたくなる。川辺で散歩をするとか、川沿いのサイクリング道路で自転車に乗るとか、皮の風で凧揚げをするとか。
この間は娘の美咲ちゃんを連れて、川に石投げをしました。単純な遊びでしたが、一時間もいました。「そろそろ暗くなるから帰ろう」と言ったら、「海でもっと遊びたい」と。いいえ、海じゃなくて、川ですけど… 5才人に千曲が広くて、海の様に感じるらしい。
単純な遊び。自然と触れ合え。親子で楽しめる。戸倉上山田温泉・千曲川に来て、幸せ。
Our onsen town Togura-Kamiyamada is blessed with having the Chikuma River flow through its center. Every once in a while, I get the urge to go play by the river. Sometimes its just to take a walk, other times its to go for a bike ride on the riverside cycling path. Or maybe to go fly a kite in the breeze along the river banks.
The other day, I took our daughter Misaki down to the river just to throw rocks. It was simple fun, but we ended up playing for over an hour. "Misaki, it's getting dark so we should go back." "No, I wanna keep playing in the ocean!" Uhh, it's a river, not an ocean... I guess to a 5-year old the Chikuma River is so big it feels like the ocean.
Simple play. Enjoying Mother Nature. And having father-daughter fun. All right here in Togura Kamiyamada Onsen along the Chikuma River.
