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Sunday
I didn't go to Jingu and both Hosei and Meiji lost again. This sucks because it means that the Soukeisen winner wins the Big 6 season, and Week 7 is completely irrelevant. (It determines who will be in 3rd, 4th, and 5th place.) It only annoys me because, much like people think the only teams in the MLB are the Yankees and Red Sox, and people think the only teams in Japan are the Yomiuri Giants and the Hanshin Tigers, most people who like baseball in Japan think the only relevant teams in the Tokyo Big 6 are Waseda and Keio. (Did you know that Hosei ACTUALLY has the most victories, historically?) Well, and it also annoys me because, as I think this may be my last full semester following Big 6, I would have liked Hosei to win. But now they have no chance at all. If they'd beaten Waseda, it would have come down to either Hosei beating Meiji, or Waseda losing in Soukeisen, at least.
Anyway...
What I did do Sunday is hang out with my friends Andy and Jamie, who I know from Microsoft Puzzle Hunt (but I mean, after 5 years or so I just think of them as random Seattle friends). They are in Japan for about 10 days, and Andy wanted to go to Odaiba sometime and I hadn't been there in a while, so I figured I'd go with them and be a (crappy) tour guide.
We met up at noon in the Akihabara Yodobashi, and got lunch at the same katsu place on the 8th floor that I went to with Mike and Ken a month or two ago, because the katsu is great. Unlike before, Andy and Jamie wanted to play with the sesame seeds and the pestle and make their own katsu sauce. Then after lunch we wandered around Yodobashi for an hour or so and looked at puzzles and games and I looked at some photo stuff for a bit too.
Then, off to Odaiba. We took the Yurikamome from Shinbashi. First stop was Daiba, where we went to look at the beach and take photos with the Statue of Liberty:
Then we went to the Fuji TV building. I finally got to see the observation tower! You can go into that weird ball area of the building and get a nice view of Tokyo. Then I wanted to go into the FujiTV shop, where I saw a ton of interesting stuff from various TV shows and movies I like, but my real goal was to replace my old Ainori keychain that broke. Fortunately, they still sell them :) I also got a Nodame Cantabile folder set.
After FujiTV we took the Yurikamome to Aomi, for Palette Town and all. We got ice cream and then wandered into the Toyota Design Center, looked at car design thingies and then watched the trumpet-playing robot. This time it played Sekai ni Hitotsu Dake no Hana, which was pretty cool :)
Our idea was to ride the ferris wheel at night and see the view, so we wasted an hour or so in Leisure Land... I introduced them to Jubeat, and we watched some people play other games, and we played a huge roll-the-ball game, and Jamie played a game where you slam and/or lift a table, and we used the foot massage machines, and then I made them do purikura with me. I am now convinced that some of these newer machines actually DO just make your eyes bigger:
But anyway, we were going to get dinner after that, only we wanted to get yakiniku and there was only one place in Venus Fort and it was expensive and small. And the other food options didn't really appeal to us. And we didn't want to journey back to the other side mall to look for food. SO, we decided to just ride the ferris wheel and then go back up to Tokyo for dinner.
(BTW, Andy and Jamie are more afraid of heights than me, apparently. And the view was not as good as I thought it might be.)
I made them come to Akabane with me and we went to Anrakutei for dinner. We ate a ton of yakiniku and it was good.
I'll put up a few more photos later.
Anyway...
What I did do Sunday is hang out with my friends Andy and Jamie, who I know from Microsoft Puzzle Hunt (but I mean, after 5 years or so I just think of them as random Seattle friends). They are in Japan for about 10 days, and Andy wanted to go to Odaiba sometime and I hadn't been there in a while, so I figured I'd go with them and be a (crappy) tour guide.
We met up at noon in the Akihabara Yodobashi, and got lunch at the same katsu place on the 8th floor that I went to with Mike and Ken a month or two ago, because the katsu is great. Unlike before, Andy and Jamie wanted to play with the sesame seeds and the pestle and make their own katsu sauce. Then after lunch we wandered around Yodobashi for an hour or so and looked at puzzles and games and I looked at some photo stuff for a bit too.
Then, off to Odaiba. We took the Yurikamome from Shinbashi. First stop was Daiba, where we went to look at the beach and take photos with the Statue of Liberty:
Then we went to the Fuji TV building. I finally got to see the observation tower! You can go into that weird ball area of the building and get a nice view of Tokyo. Then I wanted to go into the FujiTV shop, where I saw a ton of interesting stuff from various TV shows and movies I like, but my real goal was to replace my old Ainori keychain that broke. Fortunately, they still sell them :) I also got a Nodame Cantabile folder set.
After FujiTV we took the Yurikamome to Aomi, for Palette Town and all. We got ice cream and then wandered into the Toyota Design Center, looked at car design thingies and then watched the trumpet-playing robot. This time it played Sekai ni Hitotsu Dake no Hana, which was pretty cool :)
Our idea was to ride the ferris wheel at night and see the view, so we wasted an hour or so in Leisure Land... I introduced them to Jubeat, and we watched some people play other games, and we played a huge roll-the-ball game, and Jamie played a game where you slam and/or lift a table, and we used the foot massage machines, and then I made them do purikura with me. I am now convinced that some of these newer machines actually DO just make your eyes bigger:
But anyway, we were going to get dinner after that, only we wanted to get yakiniku and there was only one place in Venus Fort and it was expensive and small. And the other food options didn't really appeal to us. And we didn't want to journey back to the other side mall to look for food. SO, we decided to just ride the ferris wheel and then go back up to Tokyo for dinner.
(BTW, Andy and Jamie are more afraid of heights than me, apparently. And the view was not as good as I thought it might be.)
I made them come to Akabane with me and we went to Anrakutei for dinner. We ate a ton of yakiniku and it was good.
I'll put up a few more photos later.
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