Visiting Harajuku and the Tokyo Museum

Harajuku is known for its famous Meiji Shrine, and for the youth that gather here dressed-up in crazy outfits. Both are a great reason to visit this area. The shrine was really neat, but the best part was witnessing several Japanese weddings. I have attached a picture of one procession below. We did get to see all of the Japanese young dressed-up in everything from goth (all in back with crazy face paint, etc.) to Little Bo Peep costumes. They all gather there to see and be seen. They usually have a bag of their regular clothes so they can change before they get back home to their parents! After this we boarded the subway again to visit the Edo-Tokyo Museum. It is a museum that shows Tokyo history, including when it was Edo. The name was changed to Tokyo when it was named the capitol of Japan. It was a good place to visit. After all of this we made it back to the Asasaka area where I grabbed some McDonalds hamburgers for dinner. Tomorrow morning we leave via bus and train and then another bus for Tokaimura, Ibaraki. I will be spending the next week there with nineteen of my colleagues visiting schools and learning about the area. Tomorrow we visit Ibaraki University before having the evening to ourselves.