Edo-Tokyo Museum

We left the hotel early to be at the subway to purchase our fast train ticket to Hiroshima. We found that the round trip tickets would cost $800.00 US dollars. We turned around and head back the hotel for a nap! The hotel offers you a deal if you decline housekeeping during your stay, they will give you 500 yen a day. We have earned two certificates so we decided to eat lunch at the hotel. The lunch was very tasty. I had a salad and small pasta dish and your Dad had a small pizza with avocado and shrimp...that would be $30.00 and the 1,000 yen certificate paid for two diet cokes! Today we visited the Edo-Tokyo Museum with a subway ride costing about $10.50. Tokyo was originally named Edo and as it grew and developed the name was changed. You will be happy to know that you don't have many pictures to view today!

The view from our hotel as we were having lunch today.

This is for Dana - beautiful fresh flowers in the hotel lobby.

That's me -  waiting for a ride in the old fashioned carriage that 
would be held over the shoulders of men.  Haven't 
seen any of those around Tokyo!

Whitt - this is for you.  Looks like homemade swords - very sharp. 
 You can probably make these.

The woman futon just had a baby and would have to stay in a sitting position
 for seven days.  The new born baby is given a bath by the midwife
 in the fashion shown so the umbilical would not get wet.

The wheels on this tricycle are made of wood.

Papa is waiting for a ride in this rickshaw.

We ended a wonderful day at our favorite ice cream place.  
The portion was about 1/2 cup and it cost $7.50 each!  It was delicious ice cream....

Remember the the tallest tower we visited...built to be like 
the Eiffel Tower in France - this was taken from our bedroom window.