Odaiba Part 2

Ok so last time I left it half way through Odaiba. After we left Venus Fort, we went across to the Toyota showcase building (I think its called that). It has a lot of cool new Toyota cars etc. Here are some pictures from the entrance. Theres a huge road that winds through the building, that ou can test drive the new cars on. I saw some japanese families in them and they weren't actually touching thedriving wheel so i'm guessing its an automated ride.



We spent a few hours here, down stairs they have big shows on hybrid technology which was cool, and a large racing simulator (like a ride at rainbows end). We had to queue up a little but it was cool when we got in, it was like a racing game but the seats were elevated off the ground and moved with the car.

>>Also a side note on queuing - the Japanese do it everywhere, so far ive seen Train queues (thats ok I think), Queues to use the toilets, showers, even a 30min queue to use the fitting room at a clothes shop! Yesterday when we were walking around I saw a new pastry shop had opened, the queue was right around the block, several hours long! The Japanese love to queue up for new things apparently.

Heres a cool new type of car they were demonstrating too, a bit like a single person get around thing, looked cool anyway:



So next we left the Toyota rooms, and went into a shopping complex (still Odaiba). This one had ots of floors and each floor was a different thing. One floor had a lot of old Japanese things, and one an was selling beetles!! I thought they weren't real to start with, but they were! freeky! Apparently Japanese kids like to have them as pets and to get the to fight each others. They were really big (maby 10-15cm), and only 500Yen each (about $6 NZ).



After that we went out side and had some food, I looked around the soy showcase room which I forgot to take pictures in, but they just had all their latest equipment on showcase and how much it was etc.

Outside in Odaiba they have a replica of the Statue of Liberty too so I had to photograph that!
Also a random photo of the bridge that connects Odaiba to the mainland.



It was starting to get late, so we headed back into Tokyo mainland. Tims parents left and we decided to walk around some of the streets. Heres the small street we walked down that had lots of fish stalls and random shops:



An interesting stall I found was a shoe one, and the random designs and colors they had (Japaneses youth wear crazy clothes)



And a fruit shop, so you can see the prices: (fruit is generally pretty expensive here, except for bananas Ive found - and a $200 mango which i'll post next time)



>>This is for wayne - there were heaps of machines where you could play to try pick up soft toys, I found a couple that had super huge toys!



Not much more to post from Odabi so thats it for now!