[Date & Time] Sunday, April 12, at 11:00 ~ 16:40
[Spots] Tsurugaoka-Hachimangu Shrine, Hasedera Temple, and Kotokuin Temple (Great Buddha)
[Guests] 9 JICA trainees from 6 countries: Turkey, Bhutan, Vietnam, Myanmar, Uruguay and Peru
[Attendants] 8 KSGG Members and 2 Observers
From 11 a.m., the festival parades of Mikoshi, or portable shrines, marching bands, and dancers started Wakamiya-oji Street through Tsurugaoka-Hachimangu Shrine. The trainees, who visited Kamakura for the first time, were delighted and took many pictures of them.
The KSGG tour organizer asked a Turkish trainee, who stays long in Japan and joins in the tour at times, to talk about the history and culture of his country this time. Both Anatolia, located on the Asian side, and Istanbul, the biggest city located in the European side, are the places where nations with various races and cultures, such as ancient Hittites, Phrygia, Lydia and Byzantine Empire, had prospered. Turkey faces the Black Sea in the north and the Mediterranean Sea in the south, and it neighbors Bulgaria and Greece in the west, and Georgia, Armenia, Iran, Iraq and Syria in the east. Turkey declared a republic in 1923. Turkish people believe in Muslim, an Islamic religion with strict commandments, and speak Turkish. Turkey has a population of 88 million. Its main industry is agriculture, which 40 percent of its population is engaged in. The apple, which is a popular fruit there, features its variety in color such as red, yellow, and orange. As for light industrial products, Turkey is a major exporter of textile and clothing products. Turkish black tea is richer than other regular teas, and people there like to drink it with sugar.
Our tour ended on schedule with no happenings.
[Spots] Tsurugaoka-Hachimangu Shrine, Hasedera Temple, and Kotokuin Temple (Great Buddha)
[Guests] 9 JICA trainees from 6 countries: Turkey, Bhutan, Vietnam, Myanmar, Uruguay and Peru
[Attendants] 8 KSGG Members and 2 Observers
From 11 a.m., the festival parades of Mikoshi, or portable shrines, marching bands, and dancers started Wakamiya-oji Street through Tsurugaoka-Hachimangu Shrine. The trainees, who visited Kamakura for the first time, were delighted and took many pictures of them.
The KSGG tour organizer asked a Turkish trainee, who stays long in Japan and joins in the tour at times, to talk about the history and culture of his country this time. Both Anatolia, located on the Asian side, and Istanbul, the biggest city located in the European side, are the places where nations with various races and cultures, such as ancient Hittites, Phrygia, Lydia and Byzantine Empire, had prospered. Turkey faces the Black Sea in the north and the Mediterranean Sea in the south, and it neighbors Bulgaria and Greece in the west, and Georgia, Armenia, Iran, Iraq and Syria in the east. Turkey declared a republic in 1923. Turkish people believe in Muslim, an Islamic religion with strict commandments, and speak Turkish. Turkey has a population of 88 million. Its main industry is agriculture, which 40 percent of its population is engaged in. The apple, which is a popular fruit there, features its variety in color such as red, yellow, and orange. As for light industrial products, Turkey is a major exporter of textile and clothing products. Turkish black tea is richer than other regular teas, and people there like to drink it with sugar.
Our tour ended on schedule with no happenings.