Fumio Hiramori gets a little starry eyed about his job getting paid to help others gaze at heavenly bodies.

It's little wonder, as Hiramori is Tokyo's Traveling Telescope Tyro, prancing around the capital area with his handmade Hubble copy and servicing people with a yen to gaze into the celestial skies, according to Spa! (12/13).

"When I was in high school, my friends would invite me over to their places and I would always take my telescope so I could show them the heavens," Hiramori tells Spa! "I figured I could probably make some money out of doing the same thing. About two years ago, I set up a website and began advertising my services."

Hiramori takes his telescope to homes around the Kanto Region. Most of his clients live in Kanagawa and Saitama prefectures, both of which border Tokyo.

"Nearly all of my clients are adult women," the traveling telescope man says. "I get a lot of calls to bring my telescope to class reunions held by women's university graduates. I really wanted to show my stuff to kids, though."

Tokyo's Traveling Telescope Tyro uses a tool with a 10-centimeter circumference lens... it's a telescope he made while still a pupil at elementary school.

"Most of the requests I get for work come in the summer. Over the midsummer break, I might even get three days' work in a row," Hiramori tells Spa! "Astronomy is actually better in the winter (because the skies are clearer), but there aren't too many people who want to climb up onto the roof of a building and look at the stars."

Unlike his business, Tokyo's Traveling Telescope Tyro's prices are nowhere near astronomical and he falls short of being able to eke out a living out by giving punters a peep at the Milky Way, so he supplements his income making websites and teaching people how to use computers.

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