Unit 4 Culture and
Customs
Tokai Mura
3rd Grade Social
Studies
Remember that Idaho Falls became a
“Sister City” with Tokai-mura, Japan on
July 4, 1981.
Here is Tokai Mura’s country of Japan’s flag & here is
Idaho Falls’ country of The United States of America’s flag.
Let’s do a quick review for the
reasons we have Sister Cities…
We have them to?
Partnerships
Share goals
Problem Solve
Strengthen
Experience & Explore
Remember when you have a
Sister City, you visit one another.
Tokai Mura students visited us in Idaho
Falls. We showed them where we lived,
and showed them our Sister City
Monument.
Now it’s our turn to visit Tokai Mura
Japan.
We live in the
town of Idaho
Falls, in the
state of
Idaho, on the
continent of
North
America.
Our sister city
is Tokai-mura,
in the country
of Japan, on
the Continent
of Asia.
Tokai-mura is located on the island of
Japan. It has many land formations.
Tatsuya Murakami, the Mayor of
Tokai-mura. He greets us at the City
Hall of their town.
This is a
Wish Tree
in front of
their City
Hall.
Idaho Falls mayor, Jared Furhman, is
greeted by a resident of Tokai-mura and
given a present and by some of the people
of Tokai-Mura.
These symbols meanTokai-mura
in Japanese
東海村
Everyone eats in the City Hall where
they would pay with yen.
•The yen is the Japanese
currency unit.
•There are six kinds of coins
500 yen, 100 yen, 50 yen, 10
yen, and 5 yen .
*There are four kinds of bills
(10,000 yen, 5,000 yen, 2,000
yen 1,000 yen, 1 yen) used.
*Japanese currency is
designed for easy use.
*Each bill has raised bumps
in the bottom, left corner.
*All of the bills and coins are
different sizes.
City hall is the place where the
town gathers for social events.
They play games and they have…
A stone is slid toward the score
area on the mat. Two teams
alternately throw out three stones,
and the each game score is
calculated from the number of
stones carried to or near the
center of the score area.
Cheerleaders !
When touring Tokai Mura you can walk
down some of these roads and see....
homes that look like yours and when you travel to
the Eastern side of Tokai Mura you will see…
the ocean and beaches with sand hills.
You will then travel to the Kuji River in the
southern part, by the Pacific Ocean and fish.
The weather is mild,
with rain from spring
to fall. Winters are
dry and mostly free
from natural
disasters so you do
not have to worry
about the weather.
When you are in the lower land of Tokai,
you will see the hills where they grow rice and...
Sweet Potatoes! Does this sound a little bit like
Idaho Falls?
You will walk
the hillsides
that are filled
with fields and
forests.
and see the The Village Flower,
Lilium Maculatum, and the Village
tree, the Japanese Black Pine.
For fun you will take a horse back
ride, or go golfing.
Visit a Wine estate in the forest or watch a
group of baboons.
Yes, I said baboons!
You will visit an indoor or an outdoor
Temple in Tokai.
Or visit one of
their many
schools on the
island.
The city of Tokai’s flag hiragana to と shaped as
the gamma ? (γ) of gamma-radiation, and the
waves of the Pacific Ocean.
Tokai is the birthplace for atomic
energy research in Japan. ...
In the eastern area of Tokai Mura nuclear
buildings, reactors and power stations exist.
United Streaming Japan
• There's No Food Like My Food: Shuntsuke in
Japan.
Tokai-mura
• KEK News Vol.9 No.1(Tokai-mura, past and
present)