The purpose of this present study is to grasp the regional characteristics of users of social education facilites. As parameters, we adopted the following three: (1) working hours; (2) night utilization rate and (3) seasonal variations in usage. The study consists of the following three categories:
1. The purpose of the study
2. Calculation method of working hours
To describe the method to calculate working hours in agriculture and accordingly to calculate the working hours per worker in each village and town.
3. Regional characteristics of the users of social education facilities
To elucidate the characteristics of the aforementioned working hours and regional agriculture. To clarify the relations between the working hours, night utilization rate and seasonal variations, and to discuss regional characteristics of the users and facilities.

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Coppices in the urban fringe, decreasing in number mostly because of urbanization, are thought to be an important factor in the conservation of wildlife and amenities in such an area. The aims of this paper are I) to analyze how the functions of coppices are evaluated, and 2) to examine how this evaluation is affected by changes in the distribution and conditions of coppices.
For the first aim, we conducted a questionnaire and found that such functions of coppices as soil, wildlife and landscape conservation are highly evaluated. For the second aim, we first divided coppices into 7 types according to their conditions, and used a questionnaire to see how people's evaluations are related to each of the 7 types. We then related these results to the results from the analysis of changes inthe distribution and conditions of coppices, and obtained 2 types of correspondences as follows;
1. Gradual decrease of coppices-which associates with the appreciation of the coppices' functions
2. Rapid destruction of coppices-which has almost no correspondence with the evaluation
The results show that to secure conservation functions could be one of the strategies against the gradual decrease of coppices and that rapid destruction should be controlled by legal actions, such as designation of nature conservancy areas.

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