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STUDY TOUR ITINERARY
CHINA
Day 1 Sunday, June 29 – Beijing
Arrive in Beijing, go to hotel
Afternoon on your own
Novotel Peace Hotel
Day 2 Monday, June 30 – Beijing
Palace Museum
Tiananmen Square
Liulichang
Qianmen Archaize Street
Novotel Peace Hotel
Day 3 Tuesday, July 1 – Beijing
Great Wall
Yonghe Lamasery
Evening performance: Chinese acrobats
Novotel Peace Hotel
Day 4 Wednesday, July 2 – Beijing > Datong
Temple of Heaven
Bird’s Nest Stadium
Evening on your own in Wangfujing
Depart for Datong on night train
Yugang International Hotel
Day 5 Thursday, July 3 – Datong > Taiyuan
Yungang Grottoes
Xuankong (Hanging) Temple
Depart for Taiyuan
Lihua Grand Hotel
Day 6 Friday, July 4 – Taiyuan > Pingyao
Depart for Pingyao
Tour of Pingyao
Lihua Grand Hotel
Day 7 Saturday, July 5 – Taiyuan > Xi’an
Depart for Taiyuan, depart for Xi’an
Shaanxi Normal University High School visit
(Teaching assignment – TBA)
Wild Goose Pagoda
Evening on your own
Bell Tower Hotel
Day 8 Sunday, July 6 – Xi’an
Xi’an Jiaotong University kindergarten visit
Terracotta warriors
Lintong farm home
Tang dynasty performance
Bell Tower Dinner
Day 9 Monday, July 7 – Xi’an > Shanghai
Xi’an City Wall
Depart for Shanghai
Shanghai Urban Planning Exhibition Hall
Ramada Hotel
Day 10 Tuesday, July 8 – Shanghai
Factory visit (TBA)
Nanxiang Ancient Town
Jiading Confucian Temple
Bund
Yu Garden (tentative)
Neighborhood Committee visit (tentative)
Children’s Palaces visit (tentative)
China Closure Session
Ramada Hotel
Wednesday, July 9 – Depart for Osaka, Japan
JAPAN
Day 1 Wednesday, July 9 – Shanghai > Osaka
Arrive in Osaka, go to hotel
Miyako Hotel Osaka
Day 2 Thursday, July 10 – Osaka > Hiroshima > Osaka
Depart for Hiroshima
Itsukushima Shrine
Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum
Evening on your own
Miyako Hotel Osaka
Day 3 Friday, July 11 – Osaka
Nintoku's Tomb
Henomatsu Museum
Osaka Castle
Floating Garden (tentative)
Miyako Hotel Osaka
Day 4 Saturday, July 12 – Osaka > Kyoto > Nara > Kyoto
Depart for Kyoto
Todaiji Temple and Nara Park
Kasuga Grand Shrine
New Miyako Hotel
Day 5 Sunday, July 13 – Kyoto
Golden Pavilion
Kinkakuji Nijo Castle
Kyoto Handicraft Center (tentative)
Heian Shrine
Kiyomizu Temple (tentative)
New Miyako Hotel
Day 6 Monday, July 14 – Kyoto
Imperial Palace
Ritsumeikan Junior High School visit
Kodai Yuzen-En (tentative)
Kyoto City Lifelong Learning Promotion Foundation (tentative)
New Miyako Hotel
Day 7 Tuesday, July 15 – Kyoto > Nagoya > Tokyo
Depart for Nagoya
Toyota Factory and Museum
Nagoya Marine Museum (tentative)
Depart for Tokyo
New Takanawa Prince Hotel
Day 8 Wednesday, July 16 – Tokyo
Asakusa
Sushi making
Shibuya
Yasukuni Shrine
Akihabara
New Takanawa Prince Hotel
Day 9 Thursday, July 17 – Tokyo
Meiji Shrine
Harajuku
Ginza
New Takanawa Prince Hotel
Friday, July 18 – Departure