Sunshine & Geeks

Monday we both worked an early shift so the rest of the day was uninterrupted sightseeing. James had recommended Odaiba, so we caught the train to somewhere and got completely lost trying to find the transfer train. After numerous people giving us the wrong directions, we found the electric monorail thingy to take us there.

The space-age view of Odaiba

Odaiba is a man-made island right next to Tokyo Bay. It was originally built for protection, now it somewhat resembles the Darling Harbour of Sydney, with crazy architecture and other things that make it a playground... like a miniature statue of liberty, the biggest ferris wheel you've ever seen, a shopping mall where it looks live Venice inside and the Toyota playground...and so much more.

Little Miss America

We started the day at the Fuji Television Studio building. The building itself is quite spectacular to look at with it's giant spherical observation deck. The building is filled with studios and offices basically. The are a few things to see but nothing of real significance. We paid the rip-off price off 600 yen to go up to the 25^th floor inside the observation deck..... the view was average and the activities were less than that.

Crazy J Architecture

Entry to Fuji Television Studio

Fuji Mascot....Kiss-ably Cute

We made our way to a shopping centre themed from the Renaissance. It was reminiscent of Venice, with an amazing fountain inside and mood lighting throughout. Cam bought some Japanese style sneakers which are very cute.... which we later found out are samurai shoes...nice.

Indoor Venice

At the end of the shopping centre was the Toyota Megaweb, a huge car showroom, including an indoor test drive track, simulators, a virtual theatre, and a kids area too. There is an enormous ferris wheel there, but unfortunately we ran out of time, so that and many other things we missed will have to wait for next time.

Toyota Entry Restrictions

Toyota Playland.... Why bother going outside?

A Damn Huge Ferris Wheel

OTAKU = Geek/Sleaze

The rest of the week was spent chilling out and not spending too much money. We had planned to go to the Tokyo Game Show 2007, which is massive convention of video games. The convention was at Makuhari Messe which is in Chiba prefecture, about 1 hour from Tokyo on the train.... but we had Kumiko as a guide so it took us about 2.5 hours to get there... Kumiko has lived in Japan for only 26 years, so she doesn't know her way around too well yet.... a pattern which has become common!

James and Dave... Wanna be Otakus

We started drinking as soon as we got there, because in true Japanese style you can buy alcohol anywhere and drink it anywhere.

There were 3 halls, all the same size as the Horden Pavilion. The kind of people that attend these kind of things are called “otaku's” which translates to “geek”/”sleaze”. The video game companies use skinny girls in skimpy outfits to promote the games, and these Otaku's spend hours just walking around with big erections, taking thousands of close-up photos of these girls tits and ass's. They really are damn pathetic.

Sex sells video games

Drooling Otakus..... Everywhere

Along side the Otaku's are the absolute freaks, these people must spend hours and $$$ preparing their costumes. They dress as the newest superhero from their favourite game or as an old-time classic from a game from years and years ago.

Extreme Fans

Again.... Kiss-ably Cute!

Kumiko and Sophi were extremely over it by 5pm so we departed and made the decision to go to Shin-Okubu (Korea-town), which is right next to Shinjuku. The trip back should've been about the same as the trip there roughly....but again Kumiko's skill in orienteering came into play again. This time around it took us almost 4 hours to get to our destination.....throughout the journey, we were, of course never without a drink in hand, hence by the time we arrived at the restaurant we were very well oiled.

No Elephants Allowed... Apparently

#1 Korean feast EVER

This meal was and probably still is the best meal we have had so far in Tokyo, it's a little ironic that it was actually Korean food. We ate an enormous amount and drank an enormous amount, till we could hardly move. This Korean food was unbelievably good, and completely different and better than Australian-Korean in every way, can't wait to see what food in the Real McCoy Korea will be like. Anyone who comes over... please remind us to take you there.

Yet the boys are just too hungry

Chu-hi's beginning to show

To work off our feast we stumbled to Shinjuku just next door. For some shits and giggles James, Cam and Dave tried their luck out on the street with the local girls, none were able to even get a second look. Very entertaining for Kumi and Sophi! A hopeless bunch of gaijins. Next we all wasted so much money at the skill tester games... these are EVERYWHERE in Japan. You see them in Sydney in the game places packed with Asians...now we know why, they're everywhere in Japan and so damn addictive. Talk about a money making market.