Here are some photos and captions that Sue Tischler's 3rd graders wrote about their recent field trip to San Francisco's Japantown. The students are studying Japan in class, and had a wonderful day touring, attending a tea ceremony and learning about Japanese Americans in SF.

1. TRIP TO JAPANTOWN
SAN FRANCISCO, CA
Sue’s Class
Marin Country Day School
December 2009

2. HISTORY

3. This is the Peace Fountain in the middle of
Japantown. It’s supposed to look like a lotus flower.
Hailey

4. This is a bridge we found in Japantown.
It is a pedestrian bridge that connects !om one side of a street to the
other. Under the bridge there is a fan you wi# see on the next slide.
~Amelia

5. This is a plaque of a fan. It is in the center of the road and rea#y
colorful. It is supposed to represent Japanese Americans being !eed
!om interment camps. ~Emma

6. This is a plaque !om Japantown. It talks about internment
camps. Internment camps were camps that the Americans put
the Japanese Americans in during World War II. ~Alec

7. This is a sign about the internment camps. Internment camps were
where the Americans kept people that were Japanese during World War
II. When the Japanese were at the camps they had to sleep in barracks.
Henry

8. A&er World War Two
the United States became !iends with Japan.
This plaque is about when they became !iends.
~Luc

9. This is a church for Chinese/Japanese people and disabled people.
There was a person that said the prayers and a person that
translated it into sign language.
Tess S-K

10. This is a plaque about sports like baseba#. It is a
part of a tour they have in Japantown. Max P.

11. RESTAURANTS
AND
FOOD

12. This is a picture of Benihana, a famous Japanese restaurant in Japantown.
They are very famous for their food and tables. Their tables have stoves on
top so that people can watch their food cooking. They also do tricks with the
food. They throw shrimp into their hats and pockets. ~Lulu

13. This is a picture of a menu !om a Japanese restaurant.
Fish is one of the common foods in Japan because Japan is a
country made up of many islands surrounded by water. ~Max B.

14. This is a market in Japantown. There are a lot of
aisles and different kinds of Japanese foods.
Claire

15. This is a picture of fish we saw at the Japantown
market. We also saw octopus and crab.
Lily

16. These are vegetables we found in a store. Most of the food was
the food that I usua#y buy !om Safeway, but I have never seen
Gobo before in my life. It is some kind of a vegetable. ~Sydney

17. This is some of the food at Japantown. There is
mochi on the top shelf. George

18. This is in a store in Japantown.We saw two markets.
These are mochi. Some are fi#ed with sweet bean
paste. Alexander

19. TEA CEREMONY

20. This is part of a tea garden in Japantown. It is the outside of the
building where we had a Tea Ceremony. We sat down and the
people inside served us tea. They gave us little cookies with the
tea. ~Alan

21. This is a shrine in the same tea garden.
~Sarena

22. This is a car the color of the tea we drank at the
Tea Ceremony in Japantown! Tess M.