My Taiwan Adventure

Today we went museum hopping! Everything was all conveniently situated in Ueno Park (northern part of Tokyo), and the subway was super easy to use to get there.         A westerner in traditional Japanese dress! Very cool!    The first stop was this museum and the main purpose was to see Hachiko's stuffed body. (Remember the Hachiko statue from the first Japan post?) This Indonesian flower is ginormous and is supposed to smell like rotting flesh! Good think I couldn't smell it through the glass!      Butterflies are beautiful, but this just grosses me out.   I LOVE fossils!!!   Here are some really sweet ancient elephants. They look like something drawn in a fantasy novel!   Hey look over there!...Made you look!     Here's Hachiko! If you think about it, stuffing an animal's dead body is pretty morbid...    Lunch time! ...

  Hi everybody! So this is long overdue, but here's what our trip to Japan was like! We got to Tokyo on Friday. Originally, we wanted to go to three places: Shinjuku Garden, the Meiji Shrine, and Shibuya Station to see the statue of Hachiko the dog. However, time only allowed for two so we skipped out on the garden. On entering the country we had to take the subway, infamous for packing people in like sardines and men groping any girl they see. Well, if you take a look at this picture you can see that we didn't have that kind of experience at all .       Our first stop was the Meiji-jingu Shrine. We had to walk part of the way and I ended up getting to use what little Japanese I can speak. I asked a local cop: “Sumimasen. Meiji-jingu doko desu ka?” (Excuse me. Where is Meiji-Jingu?) and he said, “Asoko desu.” (Over there.) I was so thrilled at such a simple exchange. I’m easily pleased I guess. ;)     ...