青空の冬の日曜日。家族で何をしょうかな？決まり: 上田市の「市民の森」屋外スケート場へ行こう！
我が家族は毎年、アイススケートをやるのが楽しみです。以前はM-Waveでやりましたが、今回は上田市の上右（？）の方(菅平と浅間さんラインの間ぐらいにある）の市民の森スケート場に行ってみました。美ヶ原や日本アルプスの山景色を眺めながらアイススケートを楽しめました。
スケート場は夏にゴ・カートになるそうです。(本当は氷の上でゴカートを走れば楽しそうですが…) 乗馬もあるし、なかなかいい公園です。
上田市「市民の森」は亀清旅館・戸倉上山田温泉から車で高速で約45分でした。詳しくはHPへ。
A sunny winter Sunday in Nagano. What was a family to do? We decided to go ice skating!
Every winter, our family heads to a skating rink. In the past, we'd mostly gone to M-Wave in Nagano City. This year, we decided to check out the "Shimin-no-Mori" (Citizens Forest) park in Ueda City. From their outdoor skating rink, you can enjoy views of Utsukushi-ga-hara, the Japanese Alps, and other mountains. It makes skating that much more fun to be in the outdoors. Our kids (and their parents!) loved it.
This Shimin-no-mori park is pretty cool. In the summer time, the skating rink is converted to a go-kart track (although, I for one would love to try go-karts on the ice!), and there is horse back riding, too. It took about 45 minutes from our inn, Kamesei Ryokan, to drive to the park using the expressway. Details available on the park's website (in Japanese only).
Skating at Ueda's 'Shimin-no-Mori'
