1. Japanese Class for Advanced
Lesson 0
13/10/2014 Japan International Society
Ryo Okubo (Jason)
rokubo@essex.ac.uk
Akiko Kojima
akojima@essex.ac.uk

2. Today’s overview
1. Introduction/Introduce yourself
2. Questionnaire
3. (Japanese culture about 温泉)

3. Ryo Okubo(Jason)
 Major-Linguistics(TEFL) as a Master
 Born in Tokyo, especially close to Ikebukuro
 24 years old
 Favorite Japanese food-Ramen（ラーメン）

4. Akiko Kojima
 Major-Linguistics(TEFL) as a Master
 Born in Tokyo, especially in Sumida-ku
 23 years old
 Favorite Japanese food- tenpura (天ぷら)

5. Introduce yourself
1. What’s your name?
2. Where are you from?
3. What’s your major?
4. Why do you want to learn Japanese?
5. What aspects of Japan/Japanese
culture are you interested in?

6.  What is your name?
なまえ
→「あなたのお名前は？」
 My name is ~.
わたし
→「私の名前は〜です。」

7.  Where are you from?
しゅっしん
→「あなたはどこ出身ですか？」
 I am from ~.
→「私は〜出身です。」

9. Where is Japan?

11.  Japan consists of 47 prefectures
 Capital- Tokyo
 Population-130million (UK:64million)
 Land-Japan：377,914km² ( UK：244,820km²)
 Distance-Tokyo to Heathrow about 9615km
(=6220 mile)
⇒It takes 13 hours by plane directly
 Time Difference-UK+ 8hours
 Currency-Yen (1pounds=180yen)

12. Questionnaire

13. If you have any questions,
please ask us freely!!

14. 旅館[りょかん]（ryokan)
&温泉[おんせん](onsen)

15. What is 旅館（ryokan)?
Japanese traditional style hotel
Including dinner&breakfast
With 温泉[おんせん]（hot spring)
浴衣[ゆかた]（bathrobe）will be
provided

16. Rooms

17. おかみ（okami)&なかい（nakai)

18. Dinner

19. 温泉おんんせん①
onsen(hot spring) 内湯

20. 温泉おんんせん②
onsen(hot spring) 露天

21. How to take a bath in Onsen
1, Take off all your clothes in a changing
room.
2,Wash your body before you step into the
bathtub.
3,Get into the bathtub and soak in Onsen.
4,Dry yourself roughly with a towel before
you go into the changing room.
5,Put on your clothes(ex.Yukata).

22. Notes
 Do not make a mistake between the
men’s entrance and the women’s
entrance.
 You can’t wear swimsuit if it is not
written.
 Do not put a towel into the bathtub.
 Do not soak in the hot bath too long.

23. Ping-pong(Table tennis)

24. Special Products
Onsen-tamago Onsen-manjuu
(eggs boiled in hot spring) (steamed-bun)

25. Onsen Ranking
１、箱根温泉（神奈川県）
Hakone-onsen(Kanagawa prefecture)
２、熱海温泉（静岡県）
Atami-onsen(Shizuoka-ken)
３、別府温泉（大分県）
Beppu-onsen(Oita prefecture)
４、草津温泉（群馬県）
Kusatsu-onsen (Gunma prefecture)
According to:
http://travel.rakuten.co.jp/onsen/ranking/

26. Thank you for listening!!
AND
Please visit Japan
to take onsen!