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宮前スポーツセンター及びフットサルスタジアムオープン
Two new sports facilities will open up in April in Miyamae Ward in Kawasaki.
The first is the Miyamae Ward Sports Center. This facility has been built to help improve people’s health andhelp everyone become strong and fit. The feature of this facility is that it is joined to the martial arts Club Roomof the Inukura Junior High School. In promoting a point of view about environmental issues, solar power panels
are used and green plants have been planted on the roof top of the facility.
The Sports Center was built and has been organized thanks to the cooperation of citizens and the local
government who held many workshops and meetings.
The running of the Sports Center will take into consideration the opinions of citizens in order to help make theSports Center easy to use for patrons.
For more details on the Miyamae Ward Sports Center please phone the Sports Division of the Education
Committee at 044-200-3312.
The other new sports facility is the Futsal Stadium. The Futsal Stadium has been built on the former groundsof the Saginuma Swimming Pool. This Futsal Stadium is run by and has been set up by Kawasaki Frontale. It
has 6 courts of artificial grass and is fully equipped with a club house that has showers, toilets, changing rooms,restrooms and so on. It has been also planned to hold soccer training schools and classes at this Futsal
Stadium. Also one section of the club house can be used by the local sports community for their activities.
For more information on the Futsal Stadium please contact the Managing and Planning Section of the Water
Works Bureau at 044-200-3182.

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銭湯についてのホームページ

A homepage that provides information on SENTOU or public baths here in Kawasaki.
The Kawasaki Public Baths Association got together and set up a homepage for their public baths at the end oflast year. The title of the homepage is “Kawasaki Sento Dotto Komu” which if you check your dictionary you
will see the pun.
This “Kawasaki Sento Dotto Komu” homepage was set up to provide information about public baths to thegeneral public. If

you look up this homepage you find addresses and details about the 83 public baths inKawasaki. You can also see old photographs of equipment, weighing scales, clothes baskets andso on that will make you feel nostalgic. The homepage also informs on any events that are to be planned atpublic baths.

On the "Kawara-ban"(old Japanese news column style) corner of the homepage there is a section thatshows you in relay style the different writing (or calligraphic) styles of the public bath owners from the old days
as well as the present day owners.
For people who have never used a public bath before there are easy to understand illustrations that show you
the proper ways, manners, etiquettes of using a public bath.
The number of public baths have been steadily decreasing in recent years due to the fact that many houses
now have their own baths and that the population demographics are changing. Since 1994 the number ofpublic baths in Kawasaki has fallen from 133 to 83.
Please have a look at the homepage and try come along to a public bath. You can really relax in big widetubs as well as experience Japanese culture.
You can find out about the closest public bath to you at the homepage of http://www.kawasaki1010.com/

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A band and dance event in Nakahara Ward.
中原ライブ開催について
The name of the event is Nakahara Live "In Unity". It will be held at the venue of Epoch Nakahara from
1:00pm on Sunday the 5th of March. "In Unity" is Kawasaki City’s premier music event of the year. It has beenplanned and organized by staff and features performers who all either live, work or study within Kawasai City.
This year is the 7th year that "In Unity" will be held. This year’s concert is organized by 20 staff members andwill see 270 people, from elementary school age to the elderly, perform their entertainment on stage.
After having been selected by judges the various performers will dance, sing or perform music that appeals
to people of all ages and musical preferences.
An extra special event for this year’s "In Unity" is a group from outside of Kawasaki that will perform. This
group has been selected after it won entrance competitions to qualify for "In Unity".
Another group that will perform is the group that won the "Music Town Kawasaki" Music Contest in November
last year.
Also set to perform is the gospel chorus group that won much praise last year. The 130 member group willperform 3 songs led by their conductor who has promised to improve their performance even more.
If you would like more information about Nakahara Live "In Unity" please telephone 044-744-3324 and ask
for the "In Unity" Committee Bureau in the Local Area Promotional Section of the Nakahara ward office.

Issued by The Kawasaki International Association
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