Japan, Day 6 – Shinjuku & Odaiba

Carol | August 11, 2015 | Japan, Travel | No Comments

Today was a bit of a rest day. I got up and did laundry in the ‘coin laundry’ located in the basement of our hotel while Karl slept in. Once the clothes made it into the dryer I walked to a nearby McDonalds to surprise Karl with breakfast. Most of the menu options were similar. I ordered an Ebi Filet which turned out to be a very yummy shrimp burger.

Coin Laundry – 300 yen to wash, and 100 yen for 30 minutes in the dryer.

McDonald’s

I don’t recall what took us so long (probably our photo issues) but we finally left room at 2:30 to go out and explore.

Yodobashi – six floors of photo goodies! Sadly most of it appeared to be way overpriced but it was nice to examine equipment in person.

Had to shell out for a tripod plate. Thankfully it was the only thing we forgot.

Walked to the Tokyo Metropolitan Government building to see the city from the free observation deck on the 45th floor.

Tokyo Metropolitan Goverment Building: 4:20 – 6

Part of the Tokyo Metropolitan Building complex. This thing is huge.

I would love to know what this spacey building is.

Three very different styles. All look awesome.

Lunch! We found a tasty looking menu — most restaurants have a picture menu or plastic food models outside, and placed our order via a vending machine.

Yes, I ate raw egg on my green onion and pork? donburi. It was good, and I’m proud of myself for not being a wuss because I would not of tried this if I wasn’t in Japan.

We ordered our meal from this vending machine . It gave us a ticket that the waitress collected inside.

Room – dropped stuff off

Pretty staircase and lobby at our hotel.

Train: Shinjuku to Osaki

Train: purchased fare for train from Osaki to Odaiba (Tokyo Teleport)
Odaiba

We made our wat to Odaiba, where the giant Gundam is located. We explored Diver City Mall, completed our pilgrimage to the Gundam which was super cool, and walked around the nicest city park I’ve ever visited. Really wish we had public spaces like this here.

Daiso – bought a sketch book and supplies