Boy's Swimming Cap = 500 yen ($4.90 €3.55)
My son bought his swimming cap at his junior high school for 500 yen ($4.90 €3.55). It is going to be used in swimming lessons. This is a uniform cap. It is not allowed to wear another cap.
In most of junior high schools, swimming lessons are mandatory. Many high schools have their own pools in their sites.
The below shows the installation rates of school pools in junior high schools in Japan (in 2006).
Prefecture | Installation rate (%) |
Hokkaido | 5.4 |
Aomori | 35.3 |
Iwate | 64.3 |
Miyagi | 83.6 |
Akita | 65.4 |
Yamagata | 38.3 |
Fukushima | 88.4 |
Ibaraki | 91.9 |
Tochigi | 86.5 |
Gumma | 75.6 |
Saitama | 95.1 |
Chiba | 91.1 |
Tokyo | 98.4 |
Kanagawa | 86.8 |
Niigata | 68.5 |
Toyama | 41.7 |
Ishikawa | 65.1 |
Fukui | 48.8 |
Yamanashi | 70.0 |
Nagano | 93.8 |
Gifu | 72.0 |
Shizuoka | 80.1 |
Aichi | 94.4 |
Mie | 55.1 |
Shiga | 81.2 |
Kyoto | 57.7 |
Osaka | 91.4 |
Hyogo | 85.1 |
Nara | 92.5 |
Wakayama | 34.1 |
Tottori | 73.8 |
Shimane | 47.7 |
Okayama | 73.2 |
Hiroshima | 56.3 |
Yamaguchi | 71.8 |
Tokushima | 53.1 |
Kagawa | 66.7 |
Ehime | 82.9 |
Kochi | 65.4 |
Fukuoka | 90.5 |
Saga | 73.4 |
Nagasaki | 50.5 |
Kumamoto | 87.6 |
Oita | 73.1 |
Miyazaki | 92.1 |
Kagoshima | 73.9 |
Okinawa | 59.2 |
Source is Statistics Bureau.
www.e-stat.go.jp/SG1/estat/Xlsdl.do?sinfid=000002159011
www.stat.go.jp/data/ssds/5-18.htm