| TOURS Pre-Symposium Tour Under the supervision and cooperation of the Local Organizing Committee of the Symposium, KNT will organize the Pre-Symposium Tour. The tour will begin in Narita, the gateway to Japan, on November 22nd, 1983 (Tuesday). We will meet at a hotel in Narita located very close to Narita Airport (New Tokyo International Airport). The following day we will visit the "National Institute of Agricultural Sciences" in Tsukuba, and we will stay overnight in Tsukuba. This is a newly developed area and is nicknamed the "city of brains". It is being created by the Government of Japan under the concept that international exchange and cooperative research activities are essential to outsanding innovations in science and technology. In the morning of Thursday the 24th, we will visit the "Agricultural Research Center" in Tsukuba science city, then drive through our national capital, Tokyo, to Yokohama city for a vrsit to the "Kihara Institute for Biologrcal Research". We will stay overnight in Hakone National Park. On Friday the 25th, we will enjoy a short sightseeing tour of Hakone National Park and in the afternoon we will visit the "National Institute of Genetics" at Mishima city. We will then drive, via Tomei Expressway, to the city of Nagoya where we will stay overnight. The following day, we will visit a flour milling factory in Nagoya and a flour unloading facility at the Nagoya sea-port. We will then travel by train to Toba city, Ise Shima National Park. On Sunday the 27th, we will visit Mikimoto Pearl Island, the home of cultured pearls, and a house of "Kagura-gama" a Japanese pottery making house in Toba city. Then we will take a train to Kyoto, the Symposium city. Upon arrival at your hotel in Kyoto, the tour will have terminated. The tour will cost about 85,400 yen per person, on the basis of sharing twin rooms throughout. 5 breakfasts and 4 lunches are included. Post-Symposium Tour This tour begins in Kyoto on December 4th, 1983 (Sunday). We will visit highlights of Kyoto city including a firm that produces "Fu" (light cake) from wheat gluten. (Overnight in Kyoto). The following day, we will visit the city of Nara, another ancient capital of Japan. A visit to a "Somen" (Japanese fine noodle) maker is included. Then take a train to Osaka city. (Overnight in Osaka). On the 6th, Tuesday, the tour will end after we check out of the hotel in Osaka. The tour will cost about 34,000 yen per person, on a sharing twin room basis. 2 breakfasts and 2 lunches are included. For those interesting in these tours, detailed information and official application form will be mailed to you if you check the appropriate boxes in the Form A (Registration Form; due December 31st, 1982). Please note that a minimum of 20 participants is needed for each tour. If the number of participants is less than 20, KNT will have to cancel the tours. |
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