Sensory Overload

So now that we're absolute pro's at riding the subway, Tokyo is our Oyster. Yesterday we started by travelling to North Tokyo to the Ueno district. We had a nice stroll in the big park, looked at some shrines, sadly the cherry blossoms aren't fully out yet.

Then, after we'd had enough culture, we went to the ZOO! It was amazing becuase you could see all the animals. Mostly because their enclosures were very small. So we marvelled at the animals whilst secretly wishing we could set them all free.

Then we travelled (on the subway, easily) to Akihabara, electric town! It's a distict famed for electrical goods, manga and computer games. There were a lot of flashing lights and neon signs, I nearly developed epilepsy walking down the street. We went to a few arcades and mixed amongst all the teenage boys who flock here after school finishes. We played some Tekken 6 and then a shooting game based on RAMBO (oh yes) and got some photo's done in a high tech sticker booth, (which thankfully airbrushes the jetlag out of your pictures and makes you look amazing.)

After our senses were so overloaded we could barely function, we headed over to Odaiba to spend the evening. It's a man made island built from refuse (but not in a gross way) so it's kinda like the seaside. We were intending to wind down with a beach side stroll or something but we happened upon the SEGA JOYPOLIS!!! Tokyo's number 1 indoor themepark! (Recommeneded by both Leonardo DiCaprio and Freddie Pr. Junior! wow)

So we spent a few hours at the Joypolis, developing arthritis from the jerky rollercoasters and playing Virtual Reality zombie shooting games. We also went in the fortune forest which tells your future. It told us that Shahreena is a "weird man who creates awkward situations with her loudness"...so it was a pretty accurate machine.

On the way home we couldn't resist riding the Guiness World Record's Tallest Ferris wheel in the world (in 1999...)

Japan is cool beans!