2008 Photo Album
These are photos from our 16-day adventure in Japan (June 7-23, 2008). There are
9 parts of this album. We have about 5000 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 were wonderful! Thank you very much! Please sign our guestbook.
Our journey started at Showa-Town (Saitama) which is Nagai-sensei's hometown. When we
arrived in Tokyo for the first time we were amazed how many people there were!
This page includes:
- Arrival
- Daruma Doll-making activity
- Conveyor-belt Sushi restaurant
- Imperial Palace
- Water-Front Park (Odaiba) and Carshow
- Shibuya
We visited Nakano Elementary School in Showa-town. We had such a great time with the elementary school students.
We visited Hakuyo High School in Yokohama and attended classes for the day. We went to music
class and others, and we taught at the English class! We also tried flower arrangement. We saw lots of
after-school activities. 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.
We left for the West side of Japan on the Bullet Train (Shinkansen). We always wanted to visit
an old traditional city like Kyoto!
This page includes:
- Shrines and Temples
- Osaka castle, Nara Big Buddha
- Experiencing Meditation at a Zen temple
- Kiyomizu (love temple) and Golden temple in Kyoto
Two of our favorite places are Hiroshima and Miyajima. We gained a great understanding of
the A-Bomb museum. The temple in Miyajima (Daishoin) was amazing. Then back to Tokyo to stay at the
Capsule hotel, which was a very unique experience.
This page includes:
- Miyajima
- Hiroshima Peace Park
- Trying Okonomiyaki
- Tokyo again (Capsule hotel, Ueno, Asakusa, Akihabara [Akiba])
- Fish Market!
Thank you very much to our host-families. Without their help we could not understand
REAL Japanese life. Arigatoo!
NEW!!!
We have 6 special categories in our photo gallery. There are so many places, things and people
we wanted to insert our memories. Our crew has good photographers. Most of these photos were taken by students.
Unique ways of Japan.
We had lots of good food on the trip. We miss it a lot.
Lots of great things to see.
Contemporary Japan: Fashion, fun, vending machines, etc. ...
Look! Do these signs make sense to you?
Small, efficient, beautiful, creative...
Thank You...
for visiting our trip albums.
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Nagai-sensei and Zurn-sensei
These pages made by Nagai sensei, August 2008