Edo-Tokyo Museum

The next stop was the Edo-Tokyo Museum. At first I was terrified that it was going to be another tourist-like stop, where we would all have to follow a designated leader and hurry through the museum in order to make it back to the bus on time, but then our YFU rep told us that they had lunch for us, and we could do whatever we wanted as long as we were back on the bus by 2:00.
We ate our Obento lunches under funny little glass domes outside the museum. When we entered the museum and handed the lady our tickets, someone mentioned "This better not be some boring museum." They were wrong, so wrong. We entered and it was a huge two story darkened room with life-sized replicas of ancient buildings, miniatures of entire villages, and hundreds of colorful kimonos hanging high up above. We had so much fun exploring everything.
There were tons of elementary school groups who were extremely giggly they tried to gather up the courage to come and talk to us. A large group of young girls finally surrounded me completely and just kept exclaiming "Puriti! Kawaii! Kirei!" We had to leave way too soon. The escalator on the way out was pretty awesome though.