The Journey Home

We arrived at Nagoya International Airport an hour before check-in. We changed our clothes and relaxed a bit before lining up for check-in. In Japan, you can only check into an international flight 3 hours or less before departure time, but the time that check-in was supposed to open came and went. We waited in line to check into our flight for over three hours! Megan asked the airlines staff what was wrong and if the flight would be canceled. They reassured her that the plane was already at the airport, the flight would not be canceled, and it was bad weather in China.

More Museums, Old Street, and YuYuan Gardens in Shanghai

Shanghai has a lot of amazing sounding museums, and as everyone knows, we love a good museum. We choose two of the remain museums to spend a few hours in each. Our first choice was Shanghai Urban Planning Exhibition Center.

We choose this museum because we were quite impressed with Shanghai as a city. It is well laid out, thoughtfully planned, and they are planning for more growth in the future. This museum displays the past, present and future of the city plan.  We were quite impressed with the public transportation system in the city and how they plan to grow as this city of 24 million people continues to grow. 

Shanghai Museum and The Bund

Shanghai museum is known as one of the best museums in Asia. It is a huge collection of ancient Chinese art ranging from paintings, seals, jades, furniture and more.  We spent most of an afternoon at the museum and greatly enjoyed it. It was well organized with many labels and signs in English.

West Lake in Hangzhou

West Lake is known for showing its visitors a look into what historic China would have looked like. There are multiple gardens to explore, pagodas lining the lake, tea houses, classic pavilions and shaded walk ways surround the lake. The lake is even surrounded by green rolling hills in the distance. It was quite beautiful scenery.