I believe that the Cultural Exchange Program that I joined is valuable experience for me. All the four cities where I visited, Moscow, Kazan, Elabuga,and St.petersburg were very impressive in various respects such as history,landscape,and so on. Especially, Moscow has made a large impact on me.That is because I felt that both Moscow and Tokyo are cosmopolitan cities, but they considerably differ in the process of urbanization. There are few skyscrapers but many historical places such as St.Basil's Cathedral,Red Square, and The Kremlin in its central area, Moscow has more trees and wide roads than Tokyo, which is decisively different from Tokyo and very interesting to me.

The program gave me the oppornities to meet various races and get many useful information about Russia such as health system, entrance examination system, Russian history, and Russian artists. I learn to be intersting in Russia,and want to go there again. It was very happy for me to take part in the wonderful program!