Clarkston High School’s Japanese Language students are traveling to Japan this July.
Japanese teacher Faye Valtadoros, Media Specialist Nancy Larsen, and 10 students will arrive in Narita, Japan, on July 6.
They plan to see the Daibutsu, a giant bronze Buddha housed in the largest wooden building in the world, visit the Sanjusangen-do Temple, housing 1,001 statues of the Thousand Armed Kannon, the Buddhist goddess of mercy.
They will tour Kyoto, with its hundreds of temples and gardens, Himeji-jo Castle, Hiroshima Peace Park and the A-Bomb Memorial and take a ferry to Japan’s most beautiful place, Miyajima Shrine.
July 12-20, the students will travel by Bullet Train to Tokyo and change trains to make their way to Chiba. They will meet and spend the rest of their trip with a Japanese host family, to learn their cultural and customs. They will attend school and have a chance to tour Tokyo.
Students from their partner school in Chiba, Japan, visited Clarkston High School in February.