Exploring more of Tokyo

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Disney Sea Parades

Disney sure know how to put on a great show, we caught two of them their fun parade that was set on the large lake and their spectacular closing show where robotic fire breathing dragons came out of the water with smoke, fireworks, lasers and other stunning visual effects. A Spectacular end to a fantastic […]

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Tokyo DisneySea

The happiest place on sea, that’s DisneySea the flash second Disney theme park in Tokyo. This one of a kind park has some of Disney’s favorite rides like Indiana Jones, Tower of Terror, 2000 Leagues under the Sea and plenty of new ones. It is split into lands like Disneyland next door but they are […]

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Toyota’s Megaweb

This joint is massive not only is it a Toyota Showroom its a giant theme park. There’s a car museum, all their latest models, a virtual reality and 3D ride, plenty of things for the kids to play on and a track snaking through the complex where you can take a ride in their Crayon […]

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ob-la-di ob-la-da ..Odaiba

There are some pretty impressive pieces of architecture on Odaiba. Some you just wonder what were they thinking.

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Some weird cars

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Fuji TV and Odaiba

Odaiba is a futurist city just over the Rainbow Bridge from Tokyo and is home to Fuji TV. We did a tour of the studios and saw a few of their characters, sadly no Iron Chefs but we did see Blue the Dog. We also found a dog cafe and dog grooming boutique.

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When the lights come on

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Tasty treats at the market

Today we visit Ameyoko Market that runs along the side of the railway lines in Ueno a few stations from Tokyo. This was once a black market market set up during the war, and today is a really vibrant place selling a wide range of products. At one end is food and especially seafood, there […]

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Electronics Town

The Akihabara Electronics town is enormous and an absolute overload in everything for the geek whether the are into phones, computers, electronics or even magna cartoons. There are blocks and blocks of electrical stores selling everything and the choice is ridiculous. Phone shops have hundreds of models, there are software game shops with thousands of […]

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Train Museum

We stumbled across a pretty cool train museum a short walk from the Electronics town. It was a little dated but had some pretty interesting stuff including one of the first model bullet trains coming out the front of the building.

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Nissan Gallery

Apple, Sony and all the big brands have their flagship store here in Ginza, even Nissan have a showroom come museum.

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