Kimono Show and Sweaty Castle!

The original plan has been changed today based on the weather forecast of rain near the eastern mountain area. After lunch 15-minute walk took students to Kyoto Nishijin Textile Center where they could enjoy Kyoto Kimono Fashion show and some souvenir shopping. Today was the most humid day since our arrival in Kyoto and long walk to the castle after leaving the Textile center had let students got soaked with their own sweat!! This is KYOTO SUMMER! On the way from the Textile center to Nijo Castle, the group stopped by at SEIMEI Shrine being famous for Shinto Exorcism practiced by Abe no Seimei. COD group has been actually quite lucky for not having real rainy days so far. The Hiroshima Trip is coming up this weekend and as a beginning of the peace study, the group will visit the Peace Museum attached to Ritsumeikan University. There have been the special exhibit of "Anti-Vietnam War Posters" there and this visit has been arranged by GTS as a Rits alumni association member from Chicago!!