December 20, 2010
Ancient history walk through an ultra-modern city
Students in front of the main meeting point at Tokyo station, Gin-no-suzu.
Last Friday the international department rode into the massive Tokyo station to begin a historical walking tour for the morning, followed by a delicious chanko-nabe lunch.
Recently the students have been studying the history of Tokyo so the walk was a chance to go
see famous places explained in their textbooks, to touch and feel history up close so to speak.
Nihonbashi, once the main area of Edo and from where all the Tokugawa roads distances were calculated from, with it being point zero.
Mistukoshi Department store, beside Nihonbashi, about a 5 minute walk from the east side of Tokyo station.
Near the Imperial Palace on the west side of the station. The day was perfect for walking around being bright and cool.
We also visited the Imperial Hotel for a quick break, then went exploring for the statue of the founder of Edo, Ota Dokan, in the Tokyo International Forum. From there we quickly took some trains over to Ryogoku for traditional sumo food, chanko-nabe. As per any year-end party, everyone took terms speaking about their year now passing and the new year about to begin. It was truly an enjoyable day and way to end the school year.