Our last stop... Matsumoto!

After another 1.5 hour train ride... some taxi fares... we made it to Harmonie Bien Hotel... a beautiful hotel but they have a terrible check in time... we made it a little after lunch (but had not eaten) and they would not let us check in until like 4pm (I think that is right... it felt like forever)... so with the kids in tow we hit the town... trying to pass time...

Pierce just being cute while waiting inside the lobby of the hotel..

Come on Violet... hang with me...

Here is just a random cute shot of the Violet and P taking a bath... they have similar bed times... so they got to play together alot.

Off to the town we go....where are all the people... remember it is Chinese New Year... it was dead.

We had lunch at this great little restaurant... I of course ordered sushi....

The Custer's being the Custer's.

There were fish ponds everywhere... considered good luck to have these type of fish at the entrance of your store...

One night we had a dinner just for Blake... he was not a big fan of the restaurants we had been picking.. so our last dinner in Japan we had Italian food... and it was yummy.

K-Man... just love that little man.

More tomorrow on the reason why we came to Matsumoto... the Matsumoto Castle.