Today we had a booking for TeamLabs planet out in Odaiba. It is this art installation museum thing which is really sensory. Additionally, today’s weather was quite a bit cooler than the previous day.
For breakfast we had Onigiri from the convenance store. To get to team labs we had to take the train to Shimbashi and then change for the driverless Yurikamome. We bought a day pass for the Yurikamome which came on a Pasmo Card 🤫.
TeamLabs was really cool. At TeamLabs there were a couple of installations where we would have to walk in Knee-deep, I found these to be a bit challenging especially with the colder weather. But most of the exhibits were really sensory and relaxing be it a bit trippy. My favourite was the planetarium like room where you would lie down on the ground. The outside bits with ferns and things were also very cool.
When we finished at TeamLabs, we hopped back on the Yurikamome this time heading away from Shimbashi to the 終点 Toyosu, so we could get the front seat on the driverless train. We had a front seat ride back into Shimbashi which was really cool.
We got the Ueno-Tokyo line express to Ueno and then turned back around onto the Yamanote line to go back to Okachimachi. I went to the café to finish writing my blog post for day 1.
I then really needed to go to the Kinokuniya bookshop in Yoyogi (which was closed yesterday) to get a couple of Japanese learning books. We had dinner at a place called ‘Egg Slut’, I had a cheese burger it was nice but a bit messy to eat.
The 都庁 (Metropolitan Government Building), observation deck was open so we walked through Shinjuku on street level to get there. It was really cold. The observation deck was really pretty and it is just a relaxing place to go. After a bit of time there we went back to Shinjuku station and got a Saikyo Line through service to the Rinkai line to go back to Odaiba. Odaiba has a really nice view of Tokyo though it’s quite like the docklands in Melbourne a bit devoid of character.
For dinner we had Kamakura ramen from the bottom of the Yodobashi Camera store in Akihabara. After dinner we went for half an hour of Karaoke and a G&T, which was a lot of fun. We did songs like ‘Let It Go’, a bit of Taylor Swift and a bit of Adelle. We got back to the hotel at 11:30 pm. Our plan for the next day was to go to Nikko.