JIZAIYA TOUR

The 12th meeting of the INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S ASSOCIATION in AKITA
will take place at JIZAIYA on Saturday 22 May 2010. We shall meet at Mr Donuts at 9.45a.m. and sort out the car transport. Members are reminded to contribute to transport.
All family members are invited.

Please bring wet/dry towels. Something to drink. It’s better if you wear long trousers with good walking shoes. A hat may be advisable, too.

Fees: Adults yen2,000 Children: 5-6 grade yen1,000 Elemenary
1-4 grade Elementary yen700. yen500 for kindergarten children
babies are free.

As JIZAIYA was so successful last year the IWA is making a second visit but with slightly different activities.

We shall be walking out a little on flat countryside. Picking mountain vegetables and later on eating them. Learning about the countryside and vegetation from Mr Kawaii our host and owner of Jizaiya. We may be planting rice – I for one am looking forward to this experience.
We shall have a wonderful feast of delicious home made treats after our exercise! We may be making KIRI TAMPO, too!
I really recommend this day out as a wonderful experience and one you will remember for a long time.

Please reply to Mrs JI as soon as possible as we wish to know how many will attend.
Thank you for all your cooperation and we shall have a great day out.
Web page is: http://homepage3.nifty.com/jizaiya/

The 10th Meeting of the IWA

Unfortunately the 9th Meeting of the IWA was cancelled, as there were not enough members to make the visit to the ONSEN worthwhile.

However, the 10th Meeting of the IWA which was held at GINGAKAN German Restaurant in Akita city (Tel: 018-824-1788) on Saturday 20th March 2010 from 7 p.m. WAS A HUGE SUCCESS.

8 members attended. Three ‘husbands’ had courage to join the party, which made the evening even more successful as the conversation shared was wonderful. The food was up to standard with wonderful spare ribs and delicious salads and nibbles. The beer/gin & tonics/wine flowed freely!

Mrs K drove 5 members and Mr & Mrs N arrived on their own. Daiko (drivers) were requested and all parties drove home safely after enjoying eating, drinking and making merry in a relaxed atmosphere.

Since this meeting was so successful there is a request for it to be repeated. I would hope that more members would join next time and take time out to exchange views and get to know each other better.

Let's go to the annual meeting at Kenko no Mori!

Date: April 29th(Midori no hi)

Place:Kenko no Mori(Seitaro-san no Mori)

Time:10:00 am ~ 2:00 pm

Fee:1000yen for an adult

Let's enjoy walking together in the Seitaro-san no Mori and luncheon following!!

Please bring a lunch(rice balls or some bread) and something to drink.

We are served Japanese style soup and some edible wild plants there.

Assembly time:10:00 at Seitaro-san no Mori

If you have questions, please write an mail or telephone to the following.

Setsuko Shoji : naganegi@cna.ne.jp 018(826)0247

IWA onsen event

Please note that the onsen event for Wednesday 17 February HAS BEEN CANCELLED.

The 9th Meeting will be an ONSEN VISIT in the SNOW…

Date: Wednesday 17th February 2010. Leaving Goshono Aeon, Mr Donuts at 10 a.m.

Driving to: MIZUSAWA ONSEN or KAYOUKAN ONSEN or SATOMI ONSEN

Further information later. Keep checking the blog.

We would like to enjoy an outside (rotenburo) onsen looking out on the snow! Mizusawa onsen fills the bill for this desire. At Mizusawa onsen there are 2 outside onsen, one HOT and the other not quite so hot. Inside, too there are two to choose from. The onsen is the white milky type and is very deep outside and just wonderful! A view of LakeTawadako can be seen from the onsen, too.


The 10th Meeting of IWA in Akita will be at GINGAKAN German Restaurant in Akita city. This will be our NEW YEAR PARTY – better late than never!

Date: Saturday 20th March 2010 at 5 p.m.

Husbands are requested to attend, please. Almost ordered!!

Gingakan offers a very reasonable menu with variety but specializes in spare ribs.
The atmosphere is very good and I am sure we shall have a great, relaxing time.

Parking is available and also Daiko can be arranged, to drive you home safely, if you wish to drink. If we share some transport this will also make it easier to join.

I am requesting a non-smoking room.


April’s meeting has yet to be arranged.

The 12th Meeting of IWA in Akita will be held at JIZAIYA. This will be our second visit.

Date: Saturday 22 May 2010
Details: Leaving Mr Donuts, Goshono Aeon Shopping Mall at 10.30 a.m. Transport to be shared. Members are reminded to donate a little towards transport costs.
We shall be planting rice (not compulsory) or walking along the rice fields and eating wonderful delicious mountain vegetables which we pick ourselves.
The fee:
2000yen for adults and students
1000yen for 5-6 graders Elementary school children
700yen for 1-4 graders Elementary school children
500yen for kindergarten children…babies are free
Reply to these events to Mrs Ichikawa as soon as possible. Thank you for your co-operation.