Plan for One Perfect Day

Assignment:

Make a plan to lead the students for one perfect day in the neighborhood I’ve sent to you. Everyone has a different neighborhood, and I will try to make all of the daily plans accessible to everyone at the end of the course.

Using the section of the book sent to you, read through it and select four places to visit. Copy the detailed time schedule below as a Word document, and use that to create your plan for the day. Feel free to add however many lines are necessary.

Your plan should be to visit two sites in your neighborhood  in the morning, and two sites in the afternoon. If there is a company headquarters or showroom in your neighborhood, you can substitute that for one of the four site visits.

Start by giving directions from the main train station (Tokyo or Kyoto) to the first site you have selected. State why you chose that site and list five or more interesting facts about that site, and your impressions of it.

Give brief directions to the next site to visit. Again, state why you chose that site, give five or more interesting facts about the site, and give your impressions of it.

At lunchtime, use Google Street view  to look around the route between your second and third sites and find a restaurant to have lunch. If there is a menu, make a selection, describe what you’ll order, and note how much it will cost.

After lunch, proceed to sites three and four, giving brief directions, stating why you chose those sites, listing interesting facts about each, and your impressions of each.

At the end of the day, see if you can locate a nearby place to have dinner and maybe listen to music with your new friends.

It would be good if you could collect a couple of images (Google) of the places you led the group to. You could put those on a PowerPoint slide deck along with the map of the neighborhood to show friends later.

The book sections are from:

Tokyo 29 Walks in the World’s Most Exciting City, by John Martin and Phyllis G Martin, Tuttle, 2012.

Kyoto 29 Walks in Japan’s Ancient Capital, by John Martin and Phyllis G Martin, Tuttle, 2010.

Day schedule on the following page:

Day                           Location start:   (either Tokyo station or Kyoto station)

time        directions, site, activity, important facts about each site, links