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• Age 3～Age 60
• Over 6 hours on the day
• 10:00

This tour will take care of your children while you enjoy a BBQ from morning until late afternoon, and you can experience rummaging around in the nearby river and searching for stag and rhinoceros beetle larvae in the forest. Parents start getting ready from 10am and enjoy a leisurely BBQ until noon, while children join after 12pm and stay until 1.30pm. After 1.30pm, you can go to the nearby Kuroyu Onsen and Yumori no Sato hot springs (admission fee included). Or you can rent an electric bicycle for free and take a tour around Jindaiji Temple. Children can be looked after from 10am to 12pm and from 1.30pm to 4pm. AM: 2 hours of rummaging through the tributaries, midstream, and rivers of the Tama River 1.5 hours of BBQ lunch on the way PM: 1 hour of forest larvae hunting and 2 hours of rummaging through the tributaries and upper reaches of the Tama River This BBQ is a plan with the usual MENU ♪ We will prepare a set of vegetables, meat, yakisoba, etc. (ingredients change depending on the season), ingredients for the number of people, tools, chairs, tables, etc., so you can participate empty-handed. Nature experience: Full equipment is planned, including idiot boots (from November to mid-March), nets, cases, buckets, etc. We ask that you bring marine shoes, rucksacks, drinks, hats, sneakers, short boots (for the forest), and plenty of clothes to change into, and if you are taking things home, please bring plastic cases for larvae and fish + a battery-powered oxygen device. We look forward to your participation.

• For Rainy Days
• In Door Activity
• For Groups

• Age 0～Age 60
• 2～3 hours
• 09:00 / 13:00

Experience river exploration, catch targets include river crabs, Japanese loaches, crayfish, shrimp, fish, dragonfly nymphs, tadpoles, turtles, etc. The tour is held twice, from 9:00 am to 11:30 am and from 1:00 pm to 3:30 pm. We look forward to your reservation. The tour is 2.5 hours in total. On the day, we will travel by bicycle, enter the river, and experience exploration. The first half is about 2 hours, mainly observing creatures in the spring or upstream, and the second half is searching for creatures and exploring in the upstream river. We will explain how to observe at the beginning and the creatures at the end. About 30 minutes P.S.: Waders and foolish boots can be rented for free from autumn to spring. What to bring: Marine shoes, change of clothes, swimsuit, spats, rash guard, drink, rucksack, plastic case for taking things home, bubble What to prepare on your side: foolish boots (from November to mid-March), net, storage bucket

• For Rainy Days
• For Groups
• For Family

• Age 0～Age 60
• 2～3 hours
• 09:00 / 13:00

This is the most popular tour held from autumn to spring. A tour to search for aquatic insects around several forests and streams (spring water points) on an electric bicycle with front and rear child seats. Free rental of waders is available from autumn to spring. Please bring marine shoes in summer. Search for rhinoceros beetle larvae in the forest and stag beetle larvae in the trees. Move to the stream and search for about five types of nymphs. Search for giant dragonflies, small dragonflies, blue dragonflies, dragonflies, autumn darter nymphs, fish, crabs, and crayfish. The tour will take about 2 to 3 hours. What you need to prepare: Marine shoes (from the end of March to November), change of clothes, spats, rash guards, ricks, hats, and drinks. If you want to take them home, please bring a plastic case and a bubbler (a battery-powered oxygen supplying machine). We will prepare a kit for taking larvae home. Here are the items we will be preparing: Electric bicycle (with front and rear child seats), Helmet, net, storage bucket, larva bucket, mycelium bottle (one per person), rake, hammer, and gloves. We look forward to your participation. Nogawa Nature School Sonoda

• For Rainy Days
• For Groups
• For Family

• Age 3～Age 60
• 5～6 hours
• 07:00 / 13:00 / 18:00

This is a 5-hour Nature Tour plan for Chofu City, Fuchu City, Kokubunji City, and the surrounding area! If you are a family member, you can apply for up to 10 people. If you are a family member, friends, children and grandparents, uncles, and relatives can also participate. How about celebrating your child's birthday or entering school? MENU can be customized ♪ MENU example: Carp fishing in the Nogawa River from 7am, lure fishing in the Tama River 9am looking for stag beetles in the mountains, looking for beetle larvae from 10am to 12pm Rustling tour looking for river fish, lizards, and crayfish from 1pm Search for river crabs, loaches, red-bellied newts, and turtles in the upper reaches. Rustling tour from 3:00 p.m. Search for insects in the mountains (held from June to mid-September) From 16:00. While eating roasted sweet potatoes, there will be lectures, how to keep them, information about living creatures & QUIZ competition from 18:00. Information session on catching insects from 18:30 to 21:00 Insect catching (moving from 3 to 4 points) PS: On a midsummer night, walking for more than 2 hours, hiking in the mountains may be difficult for the elderly Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays, Can be held any time on weekdays. We will use this car (minivan) for transportation.

• Pickup Service
• For Rainy Days

• Age 3～Age 100
• 2～3 hours
• 04:00

You will experience catching beetles and stag beetles at private sites in the Chofu City and Mitaka City areas. I am a host who loves insects and breeds about 500 insects a year. Due to the natural environment, it may not be possible to catch them after rain. Due to many requests from early elementary school students and preschoolers, we will be changing the start time to 8:00 or 9:00 a.m. ▼Schedule/Meeting We will meet at the meeting point at 4am in the morning. After explaining the rules for the day, we will move to 3 to 4 points by bicycle. We will observe and capture fish until 7am. The lecturer may be Tosshi or co-hosts Ryo and Sora depending on the circumstances. We look forward to your participation.

• For Rainy Days
• For Groups

• Age 3～Age 12
• Over 6 hours on the day
• 16:00

This is a tour for children to search for creatures, held only on weekdays during the summer vacation in the evening. This tour is only available to children. *Parents cannot participate in the experience. This tour is only for transportation and transportation. ▼Schedule ・Meeting at 16:00 (Chofu Nigiwai no Sato) *Elementary school students who can travel by train can be picked up and dropped off at the right side of the ground exit at the east exit of Chofu Station. ・From 16:30 to 18:00: A tour to walk into the river and search for dragonfly nymphs, fish, crayfish, crayfish, and loaches (the river will be knee- to ankle-deep for children, and life jackets will be provided for infants. In addition, we plan to increase the number of monitoring staff depending on the number of infants.) ・From 18:00 to 19:00 Dinner (strategy meeting at a family restaurant, bring your own food here, and parents can wait at Gusto. We will drop off your children at this restaurant as soon as the experience is over.) ・From 19:00 to 21:00: We plan to walk around several places in the forest and search for rhinoceros beetles, stag beetles, long-horned beetles, and cicada larvae (observe the process of their emergence).・Ends around 10pm. This is a 6-hour tour, so we only accept children who can go to the toilet by themselves. What to bring: Marine shoes (from the end of March to October), swimsuit, rash guard, spats, drinks, hat, backpack, plastic case for taking things home + bubble tea (battery-powered oxygen supply machine) What to prepare on your side: Car transportation, rubber boots (from November to mid-March), net, storage bucket That's all. We look forward to your participation.

• Pickup Service
• For Rainy Days

• Age 3～Age 12
• Over 6 hours on the day
• 08:00

Adults cannot apply. This is a tour for children only. This event is only held during the summer vacation, and will generally be held on Mondays from July 20th to 31st. PS: It may be held at the same time as the giant turtle observation tour. ~ Flow of the day ~ Gather at Chofu Station or Shindai Busaninosato at 8 o'clock. Move to Nasushiobara by train. (Transportation expenses and host provided) Experience catching and eating crayfish in a certain park. For lunch, we plan to have BBQ or @restaurant depending on the weather. Planning to experience nature in the Nasu Highlands. In Tochigi, have dinner and move on by train. The return is scheduled to be from 20:00 to 21:00 @ Chofu. Capturing Uchida crayfish, observing giant crayfish, Japanese stag beetles, water praying mantises, gum beetles, carp beetles, and stag beetles On the mountain, we search for adult beetles and stag beetles, and at the same time, we also look for larvae. We look forward to your participation in fishing the rustling river at Mountain Stream Village.

• For Rainy Days
• In Door Activity
• For Groups