A measure of success - 21/2/'14
The plan for today was to first visit the company Shimadzu and then travel to our next hotel in Nagoya.
At 6:30, one hour before gathering most people got up and had some breakfast. As we were leaving this hotel everybody brought their luggage with them and handed in their key. At 7:30, the time of departure, we were still missing our chairman.. Luckely for him he showed up just a moment before we were about to Darwin him.
At around 10 we arrived at Shimadzu, perfectly on time, after having dropped our luggage in lockers at Kyoto station. During our visit we first received an short introduction of the company afterwhich the group was split into two groups which each visited the following:
- Analytical & Measurement Instruments Application Development Center
- Analytical & Measurement Instruments Factory
- Medical Instruments Show Center
An interesting fact by the way is that shimadzu orginally made buddhist alter articals; something totally different than the precision Instruments they now make.
After some coffee we travelled to Kyoto station to get our luggage and had some lunch before departing to Nagoya.
After a succesful trip we arrived at the hotel at roughly 15:00. After checking in, the people went upstairs to drop of their luggage and check their room. Most were quite shocked after seeing their room.. Not everyone knew that they needed to share a 120cm wilde bed with their buddy.. People however calmed down after a while and several people also determined this was a great time to check out a capsule hotel.
Around 16:00 we left the hotel for a walk through the city. We visited the closed Nagoya castle and a pottery store. At 18:00 we arrived at a ferris wheel afterwhich we had an luxerous barbeque style dinner together. After the dinner the people were free to go where they wanted. Some decided to visit a karaoke bar while others got drunk before they visited a capsule hotel late in the night.
By: Jasper Scholten