Nogawa Park

Nogawa Park, originally uploaded by AdrielH.

The kids are on minimum days now at summer school, so we headed out for a picnic at Nogawa Park in Fuchu. Nogawa Park and No-Gawa (gawa = river) are next to an international school and an international college, so it is one of the places outside of metro Tokyo that you will find a lot of foreigners and mixed race kids (Japan in general is very racially homogeneous, almost shockingly so if you come from a cosmopolitan city). Nogawa is a large and vibrant park with lots of playground and exercise features, as well as a tiny natural history museum.
Down at the river, a group of school children were collecting specimens. We left as one of the first big daytime rains of my trip began.