Today’s schedule was developed to allow the students an opportunity to recover from the travel and to see special sites in Tokyo. The group met at 11 to travel by subway to the Asakusa area, one of the main tourist attractions in the city.
The Asakusa area includes Tokyo’s oldest temple, built originally in 645, and a Shinto shrine built in the 1600s. The temple has a 10-foot red lantern at its main gate and is seen in a famous woodblock print by Hiroshige from his series One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (Edo was the original name for Tokyo).
http://www.metmuseum.org/TOAH/HD/jpon/ho_JP2519.htm
Nearby is an old shopping area, with about 100 outdoor stalls, which is a prime spot for Japanese souvenirs.
The students had nice weather, sunny and about 60 degrees, for an afternoon boat ride on the Sumida River. The boat from Asakusa travels under 13 bridges before stopping near the Rainbow Bridge. From there the group took a monorail across the Rainbow Bridge to Odaiba, a modern development at Tokyo Bay.
In Odaiba, the students saw exhibits at Fuji TV headquarters. After dinner in Odaiba, they returned to the hotel around 9:30 p.m. With the change in the United States to daylight saving time, Tokyo is now 13 hours ahead of Bloomington.
Monday: In the morning, students will tour Tsukiji fish market, the largest market of its kind in the world. In the afternoon, they will begin their media studies component of the course with a visit to Asahi Shimbun, the second largest newspaper in the world with a morning circulation throughout Japan of about 8 million and an afternoon circulation of about 3.7 million. In the evening, they will be joined at dinner in the Shinjuku area by Shuri Fukunaga of Burson-Marsteller.
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The Asakusa area includes Tokyo’s oldest temple, built originally in 645, and a Shinto shrine built in the 1600s. The temple has a 10-foot red lantern at its main gate and is seen in a famous woodblock print by Hiroshige from his series One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (Edo was the original name for Tokyo).
http://www.metmuseum.org/TOAH/HD/jpon/ho_JP2519.htm
Nearby is an old shopping area, with about 100 outdoor stalls, which is a prime spot for Japanese souvenirs.
The students had nice weather, sunny and about 60 degrees, for an afternoon boat ride on the Sumida River. The boat from Asakusa travels under 13 bridges before stopping near the Rainbow Bridge. From there the group took a monorail across the Rainbow Bridge to Odaiba, a modern development at Tokyo Bay.
In Odaiba, the students saw exhibits at Fuji TV headquarters. After dinner in Odaiba, they returned to the hotel around 9:30 p.m. With the change in the United States to daylight saving time, Tokyo is now 13 hours ahead of Bloomington.
Monday: In the morning, students will tour Tsukiji fish market, the largest market of its kind in the world. In the afternoon, they will begin their media studies component of the course with a visit to Asahi Shimbun, the second largest newspaper in the world with a morning circulation throughout Japan of about 8 million and an afternoon circulation of about 3.7 million. In the evening, they will be joined at dinner in the Shinjuku area by Shuri Fukunaga of Burson-Marsteller.
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