It's been a while again. The month of June was brutal with it's lack of national holidays. The weekend of the 4th of July I took a day off and went to Tokyo to see Elliott before he left Japan. We went to Odaiba, some man-made islands near the bay. Sights there were a mini statue of liberty (left) and a giant robot (right).














I particularly like how the robot looks like it's going to start terrorizing the populace at any moment. Allegedly its head moves sometimes, and its eyes possibly light up, but we didn't get to see that happen.

Odiba also had a lot of places to shop, a strange looking building which I think was Tokyo TV station (pictured below) and a large Hello Kitty ferris wheel. There were also some museums. Elliott and I went to a robotics museum. The robot dog and the video of a 4-robot Japanese idol group were the best things there.

This picture is a view from the Kitty Wheel at night. The blurry orange and white thing in the distance left of middle is the Tokyo TV tower.


Tokyo was more fun this time as it didn't rain on us. Sunday we had lunch together and said our farewells, then I shinkansened back to Nagoya.