by Ashley Hu
Our second day technically started around 10 hours into our flight from DC to Tokyo. For breakfast, we could have either pasta or meatballs. I chose the pasta, but since I was really tired, I didn’t eat much. After we landed, we found our gate at the Tokyo airport, and everyone started walking around and exploring; some people got food, and others went shopping at the Japanese gift shops. When it was time to board our plane, we had to take a bus on the tarmac first, and then we walked up a set of stairs to get on the plane. A lot of us slept through the meal on the plane, which was beef and rice. After we landed, we went through immigration, got our bags, then went through customs, which was very quick. Then we met our tour guide Jack, who took us to the bus, where we met our tour leader Suzy. We took the bus to our welcome dinner, which had all kinds of food such as tofu, rice, pork, fruit, lotus root, vegetables, etc. After dinner, we drove back to our hotel. Everyone got a cup of tea, we took a very quick group photo and then we went to our separate rooms where we got ready for bed.
