Drive On Highway

　　I live on the fourth biggest island of Shikoku in Japan. It's small, but there are a variety of museums like natural history, modern art, science, folk, and traditional art museums and so on. Last year, the four Education Boards in Shikoku launched a promotion campaign to increase the number of visitors to those museums and I applied the campaign all at once. When my new car was delivered to my home, I decided to visit those museums with my new car.
　　I visited a folk museum in Tokushima Prefecture today. An old house in which a physician, who had served as a family doctor to the royal family and later had been expelled from power in 12th century, had lived from the end of the 12th century to the early years of 13th century, was preserved and after a partial renovation it was open to the public. Lots of medical apparatuses, books, farming implements, and daily necessities of the old days were displayed. My camera in hand, I was snapping away at all the interesting medicine-related stuff.
　　This area is very rich in folk tales, and there was also a museum of this kind. It was fun too. This folk tales museum stands along a river, called the Yoshinogawa river. The World Rafting Championship is supposed to be held here in 2017. I'm sure to visit there again and see the race.