Taking the Shinkansen Back to Tokyo

After visiting Kurashiki, our bus made its way back to Okayama, where we had time to get washed up and get food for the train. There was a really nice food court at the station, including numerous food stalls and a grocery store. The food court was amazing, as usual. You could buy different kinds of sushi bentos, rice balls, rice bowls with different kinds of meat, fresh fruit, different kinds of sweets, and on and on. I wanted something simple so I went to the grocery store for some yogurt, fruit and a tuna roll.

We caught a 4:30 train back to Tokyo and arrived at Tokyo Station a little before 9:00pm. We then caught another train to Shinjuku to check into our next hotel, the Shinjuku Washington Hotel. After a quick cab ride from the station, we were able to check in to the Shinjuku hotel, take showers and go to bed. It was a long, tiring but really fun day.

Here's one of the little stores in the food court. Notice how everything is wrapped so nicely. These aer either boxes of items meant to be gifts or they are bento boxes wrapped beautifully.

Here's CJ in the hallway of the food court. It was pretty busy that day.

Here's CJ looking mighty satisfied over his big bowl of chirashi sushi.

Here's a close-up of CJ's dinner. Does this look amazing or what?

Here's MJ playing on the footrest. He had his own seat but he liked to play on the footrest, probably because it was just his size. We were also traveling at night, so there wasn't much to see outside. Note how he's carrying BA, his stuffed ladybug. BA went on this trip and was sticky and stinky by the time we got home.