gladys' posts with tag: aikom: field trip
|  | Visit to Nedu Primary School in Bunkyo-ku.
- Games with the 5th/6th graders.
- Self-introduction.
- Song prepared by the 2nd graders.
- Lunch with the 1st graders. <3
- Fooling around Nezu Station.
- Game Center + Purikura with Ben, Hei-won and Lam. *o*
180-185 are from Viet Thi |
| | Random pictures in the bus
29-32 are from Viet Thi
33 is from Helene (yay I love this pic <3)
34 is from Wan |
| | Tabehodai dinner at a restaurant in Kyoto Hotel and Spa. Spent some time in a riverbank while waiting for the bus.
12 is from Viet Thi.
13-15 are from Kazura |
| Start: | Jul 2, '08 10:00a | | End: | Jul 2, '08 1:00p | | Location: | Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo |
AIKOM students go to an elementary school!
But unfortunately, I can't join.>:(
| | While the other AIKOM students were running around Kyoto visiting temples, Viet Thi and I took the JR Nara Line to Nara City! We've both been to Kyoto before so I decided to just take her to Nara because she hasn't been there yet, and I wanted to play with the deers agan!<3
27-51 are from Viet Thi |
| | Random temples surrounding Tentokuin in Koyasan. Taken in the morning before we left for Kyoto. |
| | AIKOM 13 students doing some sort of modern yoga in a temple in sacred Mt. Koya. :D |
| | In Koyasan, visitors stay at temples that offer lodging and serve only vegetarian food. Tentokuin, for example, is a clean, modern temple lying alongside a big carp pond near the center of Koyasan.
- Wan Mohd Fairaz, 2008 AIKOM Field Trip Guidebook
20-22 are from Viet Thi |
| | Kongobuji, translated as Temple of the Diamond Mountain, was named in 1868. This temple is best known for being built by Toyotomi Hideyoshi in 1537 to honor and commemorate his mother's death. However, the origins of this temple begin with Kobo Daishi, better known as Kukai. He wanted to make a headquarters for the Shingon sect of Buddhism on Mt. Koya in the early 800s. That motive has withheld until today where Kongobuji is the main administrative center for the Shingon sect overseeing over 4000 temples throughout Japan.
- Sayuri King, 2008 AIKOM Field Trip Guidebook
22-24 are from Viet Thi
25 is from Chiara |
| | Danjo Garan is where the Konpon Daito (Great Pagoda) is located. The Konpon Daito is a typical Shingon construction based on the doctrine of esoteric Buddhism. It is paired with the Saito Pagoda each of which enshrines Dainich-nyorai. The Great Pagoda was struck by lightning five times in the past and was reconstructed each time.
38-40 are from Viet Thi |
| | Okunoin is the most sacred site of Mt. Koya surrounded by an immense graveyard. The cemetery path extends about 2km from the entrance to the tomb of Kobo Daishi. Shaded by cryptomerias, the 200,000 tombs include those of Hosen (founder of Jodo Shin sect), Shinran (founded of Jodo sect), Oda Nobunaga, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, a fistful of Edo-period emperors, and even some famous Kabuki actors.
Age and moss have melded them into a muted congregations at the foot of the towering, cathedral-like trees. In the modern area of the cemetery south of the Tamagawa River, we will see quite a hodgepodge of creative tombstones and markers, including a number of company logos (let's look out for the huge rocketshaped monument and the granite coffee cups!!)
- Michelle Park, 2008 AIKOM Field Trip Guidebook |
| | Not really in the itinerary. In one of our brief stopover places, there's this hanging bridge where we all took pictures and had fun. :) |
| | Second hotel. I would've loved this hotel if it weren't for the dinner, which is Japanese-style and FISH. RAW FISH. Yes, people, even if I'm in Japan, I don't eat sushi. It's just eeew.
Anyway, this place rocks because they have a game center (oops! wasei eigo. that's arcade for you) where Lam, Sun, Viet Thi and I played Space Hockey and some other games. Clara and the other girls joined us, too after they got out from the onsen.:P
40-41 are from Viet Thi |
| | Oyunohara is where Kumano Hongu Taisha was originally located -- a sandbank at the confluence of the Kumano and Otonashi Rivers. In 1889 a severe flood destroyed many of the shrine buildings and the salvaged remains of the pavilions were rebuilt at their present site.
The entrance is now marked by the largest Torii shrine gate in the world. It was erected to commemorate two thousand years of history. It is 33.9 meters tall, or about the height of a three to four-story building.
- Beatrice Na, 2008 AIKOM Field Trip Guidebook Kumano Hongu Taisha is one of the Kumano Sanzan. It is located in the mountains in Tanabe, Wakayama Prefecture. It is the head of 3000 Kumano Jinja in Japan and has long attracted pilgrims from all over Japan. Alexa Cowing, 2008 AIKOM Field Trip Guidebook
Hongu 16-17 are from Eddie
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| | Kumano Nachi Taisha is a Shinto shrine located halfway up Nachi Mountain, about 350 meters above sea level. Its religious origin is the ancient nature worship of the Nachi no Taki.
- Helene Juramy, 2008 AIKOM Field Trip Guidebook
Seigantoji, which was declared as a World Heritage site in July 2004, is the first temple of the Saigoku Kannon pilgrimage. It overlooks the sacred Nachi Falls ans is situated right next to the Kumano Nachi Taisha.
- Lam To, 2008 AIKOM Field Trip Guidebook |
| | Nachi Waterfall, in the southeastern corner of the Wakayama Prefecture, is one of the famous waterfalls in Japan. It is also one of the highest - just over 130m high. Gathering four rivers from Eboshiyama Okumotoriyama, Myohozan and Funami Toge, water falls down a vertical 133-m high cliff from a 13m wide mouth of the waterfall.
- Helene Juramy, 2008 AIKOM Field Trip Guidebook
19 is from Chiara |
| | Hotel Urashima is a Ryokan-style hotel at Katsuura Onsen in Wakayama Prefecture. The hotel's four buildings, which are spread over a hilly peninsula offer both indoor and outdoor same sex hot spring baths. There are also special cave hot springs.
- Maximilian Scherr, 2008 AIKOM Field Trip Guidebook
This hotel is just fascinating. Why?
1. There is no other way to get there than by boat (*o*).
2. Dinner and breakfast are all tabehodai (eat-all-you-can courses)/
3. There are more than five different onsens you can try, and if you complete the stamps of all the onsens, you get a special prize.
4. One of the outdoor onsens is located on the 32nd floor. There are two ways to get there. Either you take the elevator (which is boooooring) or you take three loooooooong escalator rides from the first floor to the 32nd floor.
5. Restaurant Sunrise gives you a perfect view of the sea while eating breakfast! If only it wasn't raining that day...:( |
| | Kamikura Jinja is a shrine located in Shingu, Wakayama Prefecture. It is a small sub-shrine of Kumano Hayatama Taisha. Located halfway up the Gongen Mountain, the huge rock called Gotobiki-iwa is believed to be the site where the deities enshrined in the Kumano Hayatama Taisha descended.
- Alexa Cowing, 2008 AIKOM Field Trip Guidebook
003-005 and 012 are from Kazura-san
The stone steps to the shrine was pure torture.o(>___<)o My knees were shaking while we were going up the steps.o(T^T)o |
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