About My Hometown

I introduce my hometown,  Mihama town. Its name means "beautiful beach" in English. as its name suggest, there are many beautiful beaches.

One of the most famous beach in there is "Suisyou beach". Suisyou means ”Crystal". The beach is covered with white sand and the sea is very clear, so we can easily see the bottom of sea. In summer, many visitors come to swim around Japan. I heard that the nearest convenience store's sells figures is one of the highest in Japan in summer.

Mihama town doesn't have only beautiful sea, that has  delicious sea foods, too.　Do you know "Heshiko"?  It is very famous in Mihama. It's delicious ,but I can't explain how taste it is because I have never eaten similar tasty foods.  It is kind of bran pickles, but it is not bran pickles of vegetables, it is bran pickles of a mackerel. 

By the way, Mihama town has a mascot character. The motif is Hesiko. I think it isn't cute, but
surprisingly, this character won Yurukyara Award 2009.

Mihama town is also famous for lakes, called Mikata five lakes. There are  waterfowl habitat so appointed by Ramsar Convention. Recently, A clear varve is discovered in Suigetu lake, one of Mikata five lake.　This is very useful to study the past temperature and water temperature. The result of the study of Suigetsu lake is decided to world standard of geological absolute dating. Mikata five lakes use practice boat race. There are boat clubs in high school and junior high school in Mihama town. To practice, lakes are very convenient because they are very large and little currency.Boat clubs in Mihama　town almost always win national competition. 

There are many other famous places and foods in Mihama town.  If you are interesting in Mihama town please come!