I was excited to think that in six months, the flakes will be replaced by thousands of fireflies, but for now I am enjoying the scenery of Kakuda while everything is covered with snow.

Teacher Sandy Hall recently unveiled a painting she worked on with the Art Club at Greenfield-Central Jr. High School and with the 2010 Kakuda Wing during their visit to Greenfield. The painting will be on display at Greenfield-Central Jr. High School.

Channel 13 news reporter Richard Essex did a story on the Sister Cities of Greenfield the day after the earthquake and tsunami in Japan.

Ayaka and the Kakuda Exchange Students

Greenfield Mayor Brad DeReamer issued a proclamation at a recent city council meeting, announcing the city’s week of compassion for the people of Kakuda City and Japan.

Lyndi joined the board of directors in 2004. A 1997 graduate of Greenfield-Central High School, she first made the trip to Kakuda in 1994. This was her first time abroad and she has been travelling ever since. While earning her Bachelor of Science at the University of Evansville, she spent a semester studying at Harlaxton […]

A video slideshow put together by a Greenfield student who traveled to Kakuda in 2007.

Richard Essex, a reporter with WTHR-TV (Channel 13) in Indianapolis, came to Greenfield and interviewed Sister Cities President Jeff Myers about how the earthquake in Japan is affecting the organization. Click here to read the story.

Visit often for information about our plans to help Kakuda City recover from the March 11 earthquake.

TRAVELERS Each year the Sister Cities organization chooses a group of 7th grade through 11th grade students from Greenfield-Central Schools to travel to our sister city in Kakuda, Japan, and live with a host family for approximately ten days. They are accompanied by adult chaperones who are Greenfield-Central teachers or who have hosted a Japanese […]

A Celebration of Sister Cities…It’s Never Really Over Surely you have your own abiding memory of your experience(s) with the Sister City Program – send us your essays, comments, poems, songs or pictures ‘that speaks a thousand words’. We hope you will feel sufficiently encouraged to send us your own submission. Send an e-mail to […]

　Although steeped in natural beauty and a long history, Kakuda City is also home to two of Japan’s leading space development facilities: the National Aerospace Laboratory of Science and Technology and the Kakuda Propulsion Center (a branch of the National Space Development Agency). 　Centrally located in the city is Daiyama Park, which features an observation […]

Welcome to the website of the Sister Cities of Greenfield! Since 1990, our organization has paired with our sister city of Kakuda, Japan, giving students from both cities the opportunity to experience the sights, cultures and people of a foreign country. On our site, you’ll find stories and pictures from past visits, information about our program, and how to get involved.

We said goodbye to our Japanese guests tonight at the farewell dinner. The host families and travelers had a wonderful experience!

The Japanese visitors enjoyed their visit to Greenfield and Maxwell Middle Schools on Thursday. We finished the day off with a scrapbooking night! The travelers received scrapbooks as gifts from Sister Cities and were ready to put pictures in them! The books turned out wonderful. Our travelers were excited to discover that they were featured […]

The students and chaperones had a great day at Greenfield Central High School yesterday. Today the travelers went to Mt. Vernon Middle School to paint a mural.The mural turned out beautiful! We had lots of wonderful artists. The travelers also visited Keihin today. They had a baseball themed lunch with hamburgers, hot dogs and baseball […]

Today the travelers visited the elementary schools. They had a lot of fun interacting with the students at Weston, Harris, JB Stephens and Eden! Photo Gallery

Our visitors have spent the day getting to know their host families. Boating, swimming, shopping, and the Colts game were some of the activities that they experienced! We had a Thanksgiving style meal at the welcome dinner tonight. The food was delicious! Sayuri Tachibana played a piano solo. She is so talented and we were […]

The visitors from Kakuda arrived safely and on time today! Everyone was very excited to reconnect with old friends and meet new ones! Click here for a brief introduction to each of the travelers on this trip.

The 2007 visit to Kakuda is underway, and chaperone Kim Kile has been blogging her trip for friends and family back here in Greenfield! “…all is going well in Kakuda! The Welcome Dinner was lovely and everyone did a great job with their speeches. It was so wonderful to see all of the students who […]