Economic Development Director Ann Chung and a member of the Honolulu City Council are set to travel to Nagaoka, Japan, next month, to tighten ties with what will soon become one of Honolulu’s sister cities.

Nagaoka invited Chung and is paying for her trip, she told the Council in a Wednesday memo. The gift is valued at $2,600 and includes airfare, hotel, meals and local transportation, including a round-trip ticket on the Tokyo-Nagaoka Shinkansen bullet train. The travel is scheduled for Feb. 16-19.

The Council quickly turned the memo into a gift acceptance resolution. But that’s not all. It will also consider a near-identical gift from the Nagaoka International Exchange Foundation to have one (as-of-yet unidentified) Council member accompany Chung.

The gifts come in anticipation of a new sister-city relationship with Nagaoka, and a third resolution would establish that relationship. All three measures will be considered Tuesday by the Committee on Executive Matters and Legal Affairs.

Mayor Peter Carlisle traveled to Nagaoka as part of his four-stop tour of Japan last year. Read our previous coverage of the mayor’s travels: Carlisle’s Tales From Japan and In First Year, Carlisle Was Honolulu’s Global Mayor

Correction: An earlier version of this post incorrectly reported that Carlisle would be traveling to Japan rather than Chung. That came from our incorrect reading of the memo to the Council. Inside Honolulu apologizes for the error.