Last day

Today was our last day in Japan. Chloe and I had breakfast with Gail and Kenji near the hotel and then said goodbye, since they had an earlier flight from Narita to China. Chloe and I decided to head to the Ginza to wander around before our 2:00 bus to the airport for our own flight to SFO, and ended up getting a little confused about which trains to take. We made it in the end, and with only a few wrong turns. Our first stop was the basement of the Mitsukoshi department store to find food for lunch. We made at least two full circuits of all the stalls



To yells of "Irashaiiii" -- what's the polite way to respond to this, anyway? Anyway, we ended up settling on some tempura and chinese food Bento. From Mitsukoshi, we went to the waffle shop, visited the Temple of Sony and headed back to Iidabashi. We walked down the street towards the Yasukuni shrine and found a little green space in between the buildings, where we ate our bentos

Soon we were on the bus, going over the endless sprawl in between Tokyo and Narita. The soundtrack was two american dudes behind us having a loud conversation about their MLM (multi level marketing?) business. Whatever it was, it must have been working since they got in the line for business class and we got in the very long economy line.

We looked out over the planes sadly as it sunk in that we would be heading back to the states in a few hours