Well, after this morning I can now cross earthquake off my list of natural disasters I have yet to experience! Not to scare you, but minutes after I got off the phone with Sam this morning an earthquake hit Japan - it hit the worst on the west side of the nation - but in Tokyo we ranked a 3 out of 6. It lasted for over a minute and simply felt like someone was rocking the floor. It wasn't shaking the house or anything, just swaying the house back and forth. No damage, except maybe a few cracks on the highway. Honestly if my host mom wouldn't have told me what was going on and every channel wouldn't have switched to earthquake coverage, I probably wouldn't have realized what had just happened. I felt my chair moving but thought the dog had bumped me or something - so really, it was nothing.
Anyway, we went into Tokyo today expecting there to be less people because of the holiday - but in a city of 14 million people I don't think you could ever have a day with few people! We tried to go to the Edo Tokyo Museum but it was way to crowded so we just went to the center of Tokyo and shopped in a few of the different districts. I bought a couple things, but for the most part I just enjoyed looking around.
I also ate many traditional Japanese snacks and candies today - none of which I particularily enjoyed! The candy was made out of soy bean flour and the snacks all had some sort of sweet bean paste in them - and don't worry, I bought some candies to bring home so you can all enjoy the experience!
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