1. Date  8th May 2005 Sunday, It's cloudy.

2. Goal  Tsukuba universities & laboratories's city

3. Meeting place
         The 1st meeting place : The Takakura-minami park west gate
                                     At 7:00 am   Mr. MS and SM
         The 2nd meeting place : The moriya Service Aria
                                     At 8:40 am   Mr. DB

4. Root

MWY = Motorway
               6km       Chuo MWY  46km Tokyo ring road 77km       Joban MWY
My home--------Hachioji IC--------Takaido IC--------Wako IC--------Misato Tollgate--------
7:10           7:18               7:30              7:55           8:10

Joban MWY 88km   Joban Mwy 112km                   116km Visiting              122km Lunch
--------Moriya SA--------SakuraTsuchiura IC--------Tsukuba Space Center--------Tonkatsu[Ton-Q]
        8:20〜9:10       9:20                       9:30〜11:40                12:10〜13:40

124km  Visiting             Rambling                 164km                     178km
Tsukuba Expo Center--------Tsukuba Peony Park--------Sakuratsuchiura IC--------Misato Toolgate
13:50〜16:45               (Pass)                    16:55                     17:15

          Metroporitan MWY                           Chuo MWY  240km
--------Sumida--------Shinjuku--------Mitaka Toolgate--------Hachioji IC--------My home
                                      17:55                  18:10             18:20

5. Kirometers

6. Visiting Point

No	Visiting Point	Interpretation
1	Tsukuba Space Center (JAXA)	We can see Japanese Rocket, Satellite and Space station Etc.
2	Ton-Q	Well-known Japanese Cutlet Restaurant
3	Tsukuba Expo Center	Memorial Park in Tsukuba Expo Area
4	Tsukuba Peony Park	Botan(Peony) 450 Species 9,000 Roots, Shakuyaku(Peony) 215Species 9,000 Roots.

7. Content
I will run long tour in good day.

(1) Tsukuba Space Center(JAXA)

We can go easily to the Tsukuba Space Center in 4km near the Sakura-tsuchiura IC on Joban motorway. We can see some things in the facilities by a microbus with guide more than free visiting. The Tsukuba Space Center were broadcasted by the NHK's morning drama called "Manten" about the facilities and the astronaut "Mohri". After the checkin we put the button showed this center on our cloth in left side. (Photo) So we can enter this center.

My friends (JAXA on the building's wall）

We could see some rocket models and some real rocket engines in the first building. I could understand very well by guide's showings.

Japanese rocket models	Astronaut's me	The weather sate- llite HIMAWARI

We can see the experimental cabin "Kiboh" (Hope) made by Japan for the International Space Station in this center. We loocked the model's "Kiboh" up. After mooving by microbus we loocked up the real "Kiboh" made in the factory through the glassed room on the 3rd floor in the W4 building. I was surprised that it is very large. Japan sent No.1 "Kiboh" to the USA few monthes ago. This "Kiboh" is the preliminary cabin. It use a lot of hours to make "Kiboh", because Japan make it's spare now. We can see the astronaut's traning center on week day.

W4 Building for making "Kiboh"

The model of "Kiboh" (Hope)	The inside of "Kiboh" (Model)	The real "Kiboh" (Spare)

(2)Restaurant Ton-Q
We went to the Restaurant Ton-Q (Well-known Japanese Cutlet Restaurant) for our lunch. It had a lot of customers, so we had a lot of waiting time 20 minutes. We ordered "Yamato rohsu teishoku chu" (Yamato pork loin lunch, Midle class) \1,659, and got free coffee by service ticket on web. We were sartisfied by nice lunch with 5 kinds of grain.

We came to the next spot "Tsukuba Expo center". We could see the Japanese Rocket H2 model as 52m in the center soon. This center is the memorial park in the site of "Tsukuba Expo", we can see a lot of sience technology, mainry space technorlogy. We can see almost rocket models in the world as same scale. For example, The USA, The USSR (Now Russia) Arian rockes (Eorope), Chosei rockes (China), All Japanese rockes. We can visit the bigest planetarium in the world next building. We took a rest in the planetarium while seeing many stars. There are a small garary and a little coffee shop in a lot of trees, so we can see the monument like the Noah ship in the pond in the park.

(4) Tsukuba peony park
The Tsukuba peony park have 450 kinds of Botan (peony), 9,000 roots, 215 kinds of Shakuyaku (peony), 9,000 roots. It was good time to see it, but we had no time, so we passed it.

8. Cost

Kind of cost	Cost (\)
Fuel	1,691
Motorway Fee	4,300　　(500+400+1100+1100+700+500)
Food & Softdrink	1,659　　（＋Softdrink Seavice Ticket）
Parking Fee	70　　(200/3 bikes)
Entrance Fee	560　　（Off=adult\700）
Total	8,280

I had a good day in The Visiting of Tsukuba Space Center with my friends.

   [Using Camera]  CANON Kiss Digital
   [Using Lens]    CANON EFS Zoom 18〜55mm（35mm Film Conversion 29〜88mm）