"Foreign Language Volunteer Edogawa" offers the following programs for foreign residents in Japan and visitor.
🔹🔹Origami Experience🔹🔹
🔹🔹Calligraphy Experience🔹🔹
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- The experience menu is carefully selected to be popular among foreign visitors
- English guides are provided to show you how to fold the paper
- You can take your work home with you
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Time: 1-2 hours
Place: Community center in Edogawa Ward
Japanese language school classroom
Community room of an apartment building
Venue designated by the group
Flow:
1) Instructor shows and explains how to fold
2) Fold by yourself (Instructor will go around and guide you)
Achievements
-for Japanese language school
-for Japanese language clubs
- for members of elderly care facilities and general incorporated associations
-Booths at volunteer festivals in Edogawa Ward
🔹🔹Calligraphy Experience🔹🔹
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- Direct instruction from a professional calligraphy instructor
- Calligraphy instructor provides a model of the name
- The work will be framed with the instructor's signature, making it a valuable memento.
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Time: 1-2 hours
Place: Community center in Edogawa Ward
Japanese language school classroom
Flow of the class:
- The instructor explains the tools and the basics of calligraphy (hane and tome) while showing a demonstration.
- Select a character from a model
- Practice (the instructor will go around and give guidance)
- When you have completed the calligraphy well, bring it to the instructor's seat and receive instruction.
- After the calligraphy is finished, the work is mounted and the instructor gives the participants a seal of approval.
Achievements:
-for a Japanese language school
-for a Japanese language circle
-Online Japanese calligraphy classes
🔹🔹Tea Ceremony Experience🔹🔹
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- Instruction from a Urasenke master
- Formal utensils are used.
- Not only the guests, but also the master of the tea ceremony and Hantou can experience the tea ceremony.
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Time: 1-2 hours
Place: Community center in Edogawa Ward
Apartment meeting room
Classroom of a Japanese language school
Flow of the class:
- The instructor demonstrates how to make and serve tea.
- Participants serve tea in turn as the master of the tea ceremony and receive tea as guests.
(*It is also possible to make Japanese sweets and dress the participants at the same time.
Achievements:
-for a Japanese language school
-for Japanese language clubs
-for foreigners (individuals) visiting Japan
🔹🔹Kimono dressing experience🔹🔹
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- You can choose in advance whether to wear a yukata or a kimono
- Yukata can be worn by yourself with an instructor
- Kimono can be put on by a professional instructor.
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Time: 1-2 hours
Place: Community center in Edogawa Ward
Fukagawa Edo Museum, etc.
Flow:
- Participants put on yukata with the support of the instructor.
- Kimonos are put on by the instructor
- Photo time
-for a Japanese language school
-for Japanese language clubs
-for foreign residents visiting Japan (individual)
🔹🔹Flower Arrangement experience🔹🔹
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- Direct instruction from a first-class Sogetsu instructor
- Use formal tools
- Advice on how to arrange the flowers you bring home
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Time: 1-2 hours
Place: Community center in Edogawa Ward
Flow:
- Instructor explains tools and materials
- Demonstration of flower arrangement with explanation
- Each participant arranges the flowers at his/her own seat (the instructor will go around and give guidance)
- When all participants had finished arranging the flowers, the instructor gave a critique one by one.
-for a Japanese language circle
🔹🔹Japanese Home Cuisine experience🔹🔹
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- Menus can be discussed in advance according to your preference.
- Vegetarian and vegan options are available.
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Time: 1-2 hours
Location: Cooking facility in Edogawa Ward
Flow:
-for a Japanese language circle
Time: 1-2 hours
Location: Cooking facility in Edogawa Ward
Flow:
- Instructor explains the menu and cooking procedures with demonstration
- Each participant cooks his/her own dish (the instructor will visit the facility and provide guidance)
- After cooking is complete, participants eat together and take home the rest of the dishes.
-for a Japanese language circle
🔹🔹Disaster Prevention Experience🔹🔹.
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- Experience in a disaster prevention training vehicle or VR vehicle is available.
- First aid and how to call for AED/ambulance by qualified personnel
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Time: 1-2 hours
Location: Edogawa Fire Station
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Achievements:
-Support at disaster prevention events (Edogawa Fire Department)
-Support for implementation of fire prevention and disaster prevention training (Tokyo Metropolitan Oshima Komatsugawa Park)
Time: 1-2 hours
Location: Edogawa Fire Station
Flow:
- Learn the necessity of disaster prevention by watching a video about disasters
- Firefighting training using fire extinguishers
- Emergency response training using an AED, resuscitation, and how to call an ambulance
Achievements:
-Support at disaster prevention events (Edogawa Fire Department)
-Support for implementation of fire prevention and disaster prevention training (Tokyo Metropolitan Oshima Komatsugawa Park)
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🔹🔹Fukagawa Edo Museum Tour 🔹🔹1～2 hours
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- Completely private program (not combined with other guests)
- As far as possible, we will schedule the experience to suit your wishes (please feel free to inquire about early morning or evening tours). We will hold the activities at an ordinary Japanese home (apart from the “Tuna Tour” and “Museum Tour”). Don’t miss our “Culture Experience” which you may not come across again in your lifetime!
- Every one of our “Culture Experience” tours comes with some gifts.
🔹🔹Toyosu Market 🔹🔹Tour 2～3 hours
