Tokyo in the daytime

I always like Tokyo, but somehow this week, I really feel like I have been here a bit too often. I should go look for more places to go. I spent seven days here this time, hence I had the rare opportunity of spending a Saturday in Tokyo. It then occurred to me that in spite of how I felt, I rarely see Tokyo in the day time apart from the insides of my office.


Folks here has a great love for nature, especially fishes. This is an outdoor aquarium around Ginza, packed with mechanical fishes. Look at the crowd that it attracted!





This is the Apple store at Ginza. I am almost making it a point to visit the Apple Store in every city that I go to. The layout of the store of course, is pretty much identical to Apple Stores anywhere else in the world. The one exception is that they don't have a set of glass stairs in the middle that take you have to the 2nd floor where the live demos and "gurus" are. They have a glass elevator.

Here we are at the Tokyo International Forum. This is a cafe. It's nice how the glass extension is at the same level as the trees outside. Munching amongst the leaves!





Speaking of nature earlier .. this is a mechanical praying mantis in the Oazo. The little girl on the bottom left who doesn't look like she's paying attention bowed to the mechanical insert after it's done moving through its routine.




I visited the famous Akihabara as well. This is what it looks like coming off the train. I have to admit that I am a bit disappointed at the end. The stores are cramped and dingy, and the products aren't particularily exciting. One interesting thing is that a lot of these stores have the same layout. They are multistoried, with the ground level always selling mobile phones. They have escalators leading up, but they have nothing to help you back down, you have to walk the stairs. I look a short round and jumped back onto the train.


On one of the weeknights I had dinner at Sorasio(Stodome) with my colleagues. It's an Italian restaurant, with a terrific house sake "空汐". Cool huh? This place, being on the 47/F, has the most specular view of the Tokyo Bay. We had a private room with a long table in front of a big window, it's magnificent!!


Tokyo, Apple, Mac