Our hosts at Inage were gracious enough to organize individualized tours of Tokyo for us today. The grade 10 Inage Intercultural class spent the last few weeks researching and planning tours and were in full guide mode today.
The Handsworth teachers met some of the Handsworth students, those with younger host students, at the train station near the school and were escorted into Tokyo, by Inage staff to meet up with our guides and the rest of the Handsworth students at Tokyo station.
After a brief check-in and introductions, each Handsworth student had 5 Inage students to guide them through their tour of Tokyo, the groups were off to the first stops on their tours. While every group had a different itinerary for the day there were some groups that had similar experiences, from different cafes, toy museums, candy making workshops, the Tokyo Aquarium, Sky Tree, and many other experiences! The teachers are looking forward to hearing and reading about all of their adventures on Monday!
The groups met back up at Senso-ji Temple in Asakusa in the afternoon for a little bit of shopping before rejoining their host students for the train rides back to Chiba. The teachers and students with younger hosts joined the Inage staff for the train ride back to Inage and their waiting host students.
The weekend has arrived, and tomorrow and Sunday will be spent with host families. Handsworth students will enjoy many different activities with their homestay families, so there will be no blog post. But we’ll look forward to hearing all of their stories on Monday morning!
Japan 2024 