New York, New York........in Tokyo

Yesterday (Thursday) Ben and I had the day off, so we decided to have a day of sightseeing. We started by going to Ginza to see the Sony building, a huge showroom with all the latest Sony products. We saw everything from headphones to snazzy computers, all coupled with the shop attendants watching us with hawk like eyes just waiting to whip out a “you break you buy” policy.

After the Sony building we found that, Ginza is really just a place for the rich to shop, with huge department stores full of designer clothes, certainly not a place for cheapskates like us! So it was on to Odaiba, an island-like extension that pokes out into Tokyo bay. It is pretty much a tourist location, lots of shops, restaurants and amusements. We got a photo of the Japanese statue of liberty and browsed the shops until it was time to go to Joypolis.

Joypolis is a huge arcade/theme park, owned by Sega, that has rides such as “Speed bullet” and “Wild Jungle” which are actual, ‘sit in go somewhere’ rides but there are also ‘special edition’ arcade games to. Special edition means they have been beefed up to actually make them ride worthy, using real cars with huge screens and moving them about on racing games or adding sound, spinning chairs and air which shoots in your face to shooting games like ‘house of the dead’ for example.

We had an amazing day out and I think today we are going to have a rest day (for ourselves and our wallets)