2003 Photo Album
This is our two weeks adventures (June 8-23 2003). There are three parts of this album. Please let us share our days in Japan.
The Places where we visited: Showa-Town (Saitama), Tokyo, Yokohama, Kyoto, Nara, Osaka and Hiroshima. Our hostfamiles are wonderful! Thank you very much!
Part 1 Photo Album, Part 2 Photo Album, Part 3 Photo Album
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Our journey started at Showa-Town (Saitama) which is Nagai-sensei's hometown. When we arrived at Tokyo for the first time we were amazed how many people are there!
This page includes:
- Arrivals
- Doll factory visit
- Daruma Doll making activity
- Imperial Palace
- Game center
- Meiji Shrine in Shiguya, Tokyo
- Water Front Park (Odaiba) and Carshow
- Hakuyo High School visit
Our first weekend was with our Yokohama host-families. They took us to many places and were very kind to us. Arigatoo gozaimasu! We tried to communicate with them in Japanese! Then we left for the West side of Japan on Shinkansen. We always wanted to visit old traditional city, Kyoto.
This page includes:
- Yokohama free day with hostfamily
- A party with Kyoto music group at community center
- Visiting Pre-school in Kyoto
- Osaka castle, Nara Big Buddha
- Experience of Meditation at Zen temple
- Making Tea activity
- Visiting 10-Yen temple, Kiyomizu (love temple) and Golden temple in Kyoto
Despite bad weather in Hiroshima (a mild typhoon!) we gained a great understanding of Miyajima Island, the A-Bomb museum and Japanese rice wine (Sake). Then back to Tokyo to stay at the Capsule hotel, which was a very unique experience. Showa-Town hostfamily showed us various places. Then they gave a great party on our last day in Japan!
This page includes:
- Miyajima
- Hiroshima Peace Park
- Sake Factory visit
- Capsule hotel
- Try Okonomiyaki, Eat at Isakaya restrant
- Activities with Showa hostfamily
- Sayonara party with all Showa host-families
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Nagai-sensei and Zurn-sensei
These pages made by Nagai sensei, August 2003