2005 Photo Album
This is our 16 days adventures (June 4-20). There are 7 parts of this album. We have about 2000 pictures. Please let us share our days in Japan.
The places we visited: Showa-Town (Saitama), Tokyo, Yokohama, Kyoto, Nara, Osaka and Hiroshima. Our host-families are wonderful! Thank you very much!
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 (We saw the Empress of Japan!!)
- Game center
- Shrines and Temples (Ex. Meiji Shrine in Shiguya, Tokyo)
- Water Front Park (Odaiba) and Carshow
We left for the West side of Japan on Shinkansen. We always wanted to visit old traditional city, Kyoto.
This page includes:
- 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
- Rice planting Festival in Osaka
- Kiyomizu (love temple) and Golden temple in Kyoto
- Hair cut experiences
- Travel can be tiring
The weather was excellent. One of our favorite place are Hiroshima and Miyajima. We gained a great understanding of the A-Bomb museum. The temple in Miyajima was amazing. Then back to Tokyo to stay at the Capsule hotel, which was a very unique experience. Then We had a great party with our hostfamily on our last day in Japan!
This page includes:
- Miyajima
- Hiroshima Peace Park
- Capsule hotel
- Try Okonomiyaki, Eat at Isakaya restaurant
- Sayonara party with all Showa host-families
Thank you very much to our host-families. Without their help we could not understand REAL Japanese life. Arigatoo!
We visited two high schools: Hakuyo High School in Yokohama and Showa High School in Showa. We also spent one weekend with Hakuyo High School student's family. It is very important for us to know what Japanese teenagers think. Thank you very much for the opportunity.
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Nagai-sensei and Zurn-sensei
These pages made by Nagai sensei, August 2005