April 21, 2014

When I woke up I was in my awesome room with the TV still on since I fell asleep. I watched a movie in bed. Then we went down to breakfast. We went shopping from the 16th floor and down. It was crazy so overwhelming! Our tour guide picked us up and went to the oSaka Castle. The Osaka Castel had been burned down before so it is fairly new. Inside they had at the tallest level a an overview of Osaka. On all the other floors they had history about the castle and the Shogun. A Shogun was like a General in the military. If a pedestrian killed a Shogun than he became a Shogun. There big doors that would be hard to get into and a big moat around the castle.

We walked back and went to lunch. Our tour guide Marie took us to traditional Japanese pizza. It wasn't like pizza at all. On my pizza it was egg, then noodle, lettuce, more egg, special sauce, mayonnaise, and bonitos. Bonitos are little parts of a fish that taste like fish food they moved on hot food. They cooked it in front of us like tepanyaki. It was only ok, it wasn't the best "pizza" I had had.

We went to the airport. Our tour guide helped us out and we walked in and went through security. We took an 9 hour flight to San Francisco.

Japan was such a great trip. I am so glad that I got this experience to visit all these cities: Tokyo, Kyoto, Nara, Hiroshima, and Osaka.