Train from Tokyo to Osaka - Mar 6

This morning was occupied with packing and checking out of our hotel. Sean arrived and we took the subway to Tokyo station to catch the Shinkansen (high speed train) to Osaka. We picked up a bento box lunch at the station to eat on the train. The train passed through cities, open country, towns and over rivers before arriving in Osaka. We then caught the subway to Namba station as instructed. The directions to our hotel were non-existent, but Sean took a good guess as to which exit to take and the hotel turned out to be less than a block away.
Lovely hotel - they gave Sean a Japanese style room (which is how he sleeps in his apartment)but Dave and I had requested a Western style room, which is easier for the old arthritics. There are going to be some nights on this tour that we are relegated to the floor, but not yet.
we went across the street to a yakitori restaurant for supper and had skewers of chicken, chicken liver, gizzards, ground chicken balls and chicken skin. Couldn't bring ourselves to eat the skin. we supplemented with lotus root, fish and shrimp. An interesting meal and kind of a fun experience.