Category: Visit Report Tokyo

It is the second time we visit the Shibaura Instute during this study tour, this time it is for the Institute itself. The Shibaura Institute is a private university, with a Civil Engineering department of around 500 students. Some of the professors from the same department joined us in the meeting and after a quick … Continue reading "Shibaura Institute of Technology"

Today we had the opportunity to visit three different exhibition facilities in Tsukuba. Tsukuba is a small city about 45 min from Tokyo. It is known as a center for research and innovation as it accommodates about 19000 researchers (40% of Japan’s total). Our visit included the Science Square Tsukuba and the Geological Museum by … Continue reading "Tsukuba: Japan’s “Science City”"

This afternoon, we visited the JR East company. JR East is the company that builds, manages and maintain the railway tracks and the stations in the eastern part of Japan, including most of the standard railways in Tokyo. We arrived at the Shinagawa station where 3 employees of the JR East were already waiting for … Continue reading "JR East"

Today, on the 5th October, our first company visit was at Metropolitan Expressway Company Limited, or as the Japanese call it Shutoko. Shutoko is the owner of all the expressways(in Dutch: autowegen) in the metropole of Tokyo and is founded in 1959 with the purpose to built and maintain expressways in Tokyo for the 1964 … Continue reading "Metropolitan Expressway Company Limited"

In the afternoon it was time to visit the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO). We were welcomed at a construction site between several high voltage pylons. With all fuzziness on construction sites, we had to take off our shoes and wear slippers in the construction shack. After Luuk told who we are and where we’re … Continue reading "TEPCO"

Today, the first day visit was at Toppan Printing company. Toppan is a company which mainly focuses on printing technologies, and has over recent years broadened its horizon into related industries such as information and communication.   At the excursion, we were kindly received by two employees from Toppan and brought towards the basement of … Continue reading "Toppan company"

PASCO (Pacific Aero Survey Co.) is a company providing surveying and GIS services. Their clients are mostly public organisations from all over the world. In a classroom at Shibaura Institute of Technology we had the pleasure to listen to a presentation about the company’s activities. PASCO  provides its surveying services are using a number of … Continue reading "PASCO"

In the afternoon of the first excursion day, we went to the Dutch Embassy. In our expectations, the embassy is a place where we can learn a lot, since they have a lot of Dutch people with experience about Dutch companies in Japan and Japanese companies in The Netherlands. This expectations turned out true immediately … Continue reading "The Dutch Embassy"

The first day of the study tour immediately started with a busy day. The first excursion was already planned for Tuesday morning. Pacific Consultants was the first company that welcomed us during our study tour. The excursion started with a small tour through the museum of the company. A employee of the company told us … Continue reading "Pacific Consultants"