Culture Day – Japan

Note – All images are scanned from slide film.

Tokyo Tower 01

Guard Gate 01

Guard Gate 02

Dwarf Pine trees

Samurai Warrior Monument

Tokyo Tower 01

Culture Day (Japan)

This morning I woke up around 04:00 A, and I have been puttering about the room. Getting the presents together to
take over later.

07:00 Breakfast

09:00 Meet Mr. Akasu in the lobby

Back to his home for the first time

• We exchanged gifts
• We watched the Waterloo Gardens tape

First experience on the Japanese train system

See the young men walking around in full decorative dress with wooden shoes that sounded like horses on
a cobble stone road.

Bus tour took us by…

• Emperors place
  • Walked around the Emperor’s Place…
    • 500 yrs to build
    • 2013 Dwarf Pine trees in the Main Compound
    • Over 3 miles in circumference around the compound
  • Monuments
    • Samurai Warrior
  • The small stones around the gates where used to detect when someone approaching
    • Guard Gate 01
    • Guard Gate 02
• The Diet (Japanese Government Building)
• Russian Embassy
• Tokyo Tower
  • Tower 1
  • Tower 2

Dinner at the Akasu’s

Agadashi and Delivered Sushi!!