Host: The City Planning Institute of Japan
Every day children in elementary school walk to school through their school routes. They spend a lot of time on their school routes and have various experiments there such as feeling nature, and saying hello to people. At present, school route is discussed in a variety of aspects. For example, safety of school route is very important to protecting children against increasing street crimes and traffic accidents. On the other hand the experience on the route is also valuable for children grow up richly. This paper researches the environment of school route on the basis of viewpoint of children who go to an elementary school and examine children's desire to their school routes. First this paper carries out the questionnaire survey for children and clarifies their consciousness to the school routes. Then it evaluates the ideal school route environment that children write and draw in the questionnaires.
