My Hometown

I’m going to tell you about my home town, Mifune. Mifune is the in countryside, so there is a lot of green. Maybe you don’t know that they had excavated a fossil of a dinosaur there. That means a dinosaur lived in Mifune. The dinosaur is called Mifune Ryu, and Mifune is called the town of the dinosaur. People who live in Mifune have an opportunity to learn about Mifune Ryu. I learned about it when I was an elementary school student to when I was a junior high school student, and I made a replica of the fossil in class.

 Mifune has a summer festival in the end of summer vacation. There are always a lot of street stalls, and people who wear a happi coat dance the Bon festival dance and there is a fireworks display in the night. The Bon festival dance is the original Bon dance of Mifune, and called Mifune Ondo. I have joined the Bon festival dance with my classmates when I was elementary school student, and I can dance it still now.


All of the schools in Mifune teach how to dance Mifune Ondo, so I had to dance it at my school’s sports festival. There is a popular tradition in Mifune about a kappa. Do you know what a kappa is? It is a water imp. There is a tradition that there is a kappa in Mifune’s river, but I never seen a kappa still now.


I graduated from Mifune high school in my home town. I will introduce my alma mater. There is a course to study election machines, and students of this course learn all about machines. Some students are members of a robot control club, and this club has great technical skill to control robots, and is the top in Japan. They have become the champion any number of times. A principal of my school had often said that if any powerful school from anywhere in the country challenges our school, we don’t need to hurry. We can win and we can be stronger. It is too much to say that, but they are really great.


 My home town is important for me, and I want to know a lot of people. Why don’t you come to my home town?

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