Day 4 in Japan

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(note: this is one of my pre-scheduled posts set to appear at 5:00am EST each morning I am in a port city. I will post follow-up information about each trip once I am able to get back on the computer.)

• I will continue seeing Tokyo today and head to Hiroshima at some point today on the train with Lesley and Matt.

Update:

Matt, Lesley and I left the hotel around 8:30 am and our goal was to see some more of the main sights of Tokyo before our 1:05 pm train to Hiroshima. 

some longer video I took in Tokyo, Japan

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 resident director Matt and resident director Lesley - getting their bearings in Tokyo, Japan

We first took the subway to the area where the Tsukiji fish market was and spent about a half an hour walking through there.  Surprisingly, it didn't smell that bad at all - but I suppose that's because the fish was so fresh that it wouldn't smell yet.   

resident director Lesley and resident director Matt at the fish market in Tokyo, Japan

After the fish market we continued walking through the Ginza shopping district in Tokyo and then we made our way to the Imperial Palace gardens which was fairly close to the train station.  

resident director Lesley and me - in the Ginza district of Tokyo, Japan

area before the Imperial Palace Gardens in Tokyo, Japan
resident director Lesley in the Imperial Palace Gardens in Tokyo, Japan
resident director Matt in the Imperial Palace Gardens in Tokyo, Japan

We got on our train to go down to Hiroshima (about a 5 hour ride).  

me on the train from Tokyo, Japan to Hiroshima, Japan

Once there, we took a trolley car to the closest stop to where our ryokan was and eventually found the location.  

waiting for the trolley car in Hiroshima, Japan

Mindy and Drew (two of the other resident directors) were already there and we checked into our ryokan rooms - girls in the one, boys in the other.  

me, resident director Mindy and resident director Lesley in our ryokan room in Hiroshima, Japan

After everyone got settled, we left the ryokan to walk around Hiroshima a bit.  Essentially, we just went to dinner and played some arcade games before heading back to the ryokan to play cards in Matt and Drew's room.

dinner in Hiroshima, Japan (left to right:  me, resident director Drew, resident director Mindy, resident director Lesley, resident director Matt)

resident director Mindy and I playing a game at one of the ubiquitous arcades in Japan

resident director Drew, resident director Matt, resident director Lesley and resident director Mindy in Drew and Matt's room in our ryokan in Hiroshima, Japan