Imperial Palace & War Museum

After the fish market, they guys and I walked through Ginza to get to the Imperial Palace.

In short, the Imperial palace was a huge waste of time. To get inside the grounds, you must reserve a time slot ahead of time. In my mind, when a person must reserve something, it should be awesome. Well this reservation was deceiving and therefore a disappointment of a tour.

The picture below was the highlight of the tour.. and this was outside of the actual "palace".

Below is the main attraction of the palace. It was built in the 60's and looks like it was built in the 70's. I guess it was ahead of it's time, but, obviously the wrong time.

After the "Palace" tour, i left the group and went on a quest to find the war museum and controversial shrine: the Yakusuni Shrine.

I went the wrong way and ended up walking for close to 2 hours around the Imperial Palace and surrounding gardens. The picture below is from the other end of the Palace, I guess one of the watch towers.
Eventually, I found the shrine, snapped a picture and moved on to the museum.
Here is the downstairs of the museum. What a nice looking fighter plane.
Upstairs pictures are not allowed. This part of the museum go through this history of Japan starting with the samurais through WWII. So the real question is, why did America stop supplying Japan with oil around 1940? If America had not done this, Pearl Harbor would have never been attacked. That's what I learned there.

After this, it was time to return to the hostel.