Day 15: Back to Tokyo, National Museum and Karaoke

 We left Hiroshima at 6 am to be back to Tokyo by Shinkansen 

 At 6:20am we boarded the Hikari 500 shinkansen, or bullet train bound for Tokyo. In five hours, we traveled over 800 kilometers, or roughly 500 miles. When I looked on a map, I realized we had practically traveled across the entire main island and back! Riding the bullet train is very fun, you can see little towns nestled into forests, large cities, and the coasts of the Pacific Ocean, all in mere seconds. 

After arriving back in Tokyo, we dropped off our backpacks at the Tokyo W Inn. It feels great to have a literal weight lifted from your shoulders.

We visited the National Museum in Ueno.  The Tokyo National Museum features one of the largest and best collections of art and archeological artifacts in Japan, made up of over 100,000 individual items including nearly a hundred national treasures

Then we visited the shopping mall(soramchi) by the Tokyo Skytree.

In from of the popular character by NHK broadcast. His name is 'domo"

         After that we went to an informal restaurant. We had fried chicken, pizza, gyoza, cheese sticks with seaweed, fries, and sausages. We talked about our favorite parts of the trip such as our favorite place we went as a group, our favorite Japanese foods, and our favorite place we went with our host families. Then we talked about what surprises us most about Japan,    

After dinner we enjoyed the Karaoke Time  at Big Echo