This year Urano Lab Summer Seminar is took place in Karuizawa town which is located in Kitasaku District, Nagano prefecture, Japan.
Karuizawa is known throughout Japan as a popular tourist spot. Many couples and families from Tokyo will travel to Karuizawa to get away from the city especially in summer. There is a Shinkansen station as well as a large outlet store shoping mall. It is also known for its historic shopping street known as “Ginza dōri” or “Kyū-dō”.
This is the first time for me to join summer seminar with my lab members. Because I am the only girl among other 9 men student, so I was allowed to stay with a visiting professor in Professor’s house. Professor’s house is located on the hill and isolate from student accomodation. It is quite far from the central, but facilitated with all inside such as kitchen and bathroom. However, what impressed me is the way Japan build, facilitate and decorate house. The size of house is around 6m X 4m, but it consists of 10 beds, one kitchen, a bathroom, and two long tables wich allow 10 or 15 people to have a small party or meeting.
After check-in, we had a few minutes break and started our lab seminar. Two hours break for dinner and shower, then we started our seminar again until 11:00 PM. All students are invited by our sensei to his room to have a drinking party until 1:30AM ( I was not there until they finished, because of tired and cannot understand Japanese at all).
That’s all for the first day, i will post more on the second and third day next day.
Karuizawa Shinkansen Exit gate
with my sensei infron of gate
Tennis yard
Professor's house (the one I will spend for 2 nights )
gift from my sensei
