Got the JR passes from the information booth at Shibuya station. The process of issuing the passes was long, mainly because Shirley's first name was misspelled in the voucher. It took about 45 minutes to issue all 5 vouchers.
Bought a watch for Dorit at Loft (Saibu's department store annex).
Took the JR Chuo line from Shinjuku to Mitaka. Walked to the Ghibli Museum from the train station. We should have taken the community bus to avoid walking in the heat. When we arrived, Dorit and the kids were hungry and thirsty, so we waited until we could sit at the restaurant. We sat under a large tent waiting for our turn. The restaurant provided ashtrays that looked like Porco Rosso. The restaurant served OK but expensive food. However, they were extremely polite. They even provided a chair for me to place my backpack on. After lunch we visited the exhibits. The museum is rather small, so I could go through it quickly. We saw a movie in the theatre, but it was in Japanese, and it did not explain anything about the studio or Hayao Miyazaki. Rena spent some time jumping up and down on a large cat bus from Totoro. We bought a few souvenirs at the gift shop. Shirely and Dorit waited inside the museum while Dan, Rena, and I walked around the museum and visited the large Castle-in-the-Sky robot statue on the roof. We then took the bus back to the train station, and then we took the Chuo line train back to Tokyo.
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