Went to Odaiba and the Imperial Palace this weekend. We've got about 5 places to left to go to before we're truly out of ideas and just spend every day sitting around...Odaiba is a man-made island type thing around the Tokyo Bay area. Generally not that much there to do bar from walking around and looking at 'proper Tokyo' from the other side of the water. Seemed to be the place to go if you want to walk your dog too. On a side note I've started noticing people doing photo-shoots of their dogs, with some dressed up in strange dog clothes. It's weird.
The Imperial Palace is near the main Tokyo station. (Yeah, smooth segway) A note about train stations: whereas in England a big train station will consist of a few platforms and maybe a Starbucks and WHSmith, in Japan it's possible to go to a train station and never actually set foot outside it. Supermarkets, restaurants, hairdressers etc. can also be found in them.
The area surrounding Tokyo Station is fairly posh with designer shops and branch headquarters (I think) of the big Japanese companies. And there's a palace. Which is also quite posh. Innit.
Tomorrow I'm revisiting Yokohama. If it doesn't rain.
Nice. I liked it there (did you see the little statue of liberty? Did it have Japanese tourists posing for pics in front of it doing the same pose? Saw lots of people doing that when we were there, didn't know if it's a commonly done thing, or just like something that happened that day with one person doing it, then everyone after copying haha).
ReplyDeleteDid you go across via the monorail over Rainbow Bridge? We went this way then caught a riverboat back up to somewhere else (i forget where now, but it had lots of stalls an' that... It was another nice place).
Did it rain? Did you get to Yokohama?
Here we go;
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The place after, up river
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Haha no we didn't see any mentalists like that. Actually most of the people around the statue area seemed to be Chinese... I think we went on a weekday though so most people were working.
ReplyDeleteI thought the riverboat was just one of those tour things so we got the monorail there and back :/
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