Tuesday, December 27, 2005


Tokyo Millenario at night Posted by Picasa


The last Tokyo Millenario during the day Posted by Picasa


Imperial Palace in Tokyo, Japan Posted by Picasa

First day out on the town

Today, the plan was to go around the Shimbashi, Tokyo and Odaiba areas. The first things we did today was get on the bus and went to Totsuka station and then I bought them a suica card. I think that it will be convenient for them to have such a thing.

We took the tokaido line to Shimbashi station and then walked around heading towards the congress building. We got some pretty good pictures outside of the congress building. Then we continued walking to the Imperial Palace since they are pretty close by. It was a nice day to be walking outside too. I really enjoyed it and it was nice to finally get some family pictures. It's weird to say that I don't have any pictures of my family or with my family. We got a good one in front of the imperial palace.

Then we walked to Tokyo Station and then around the Millenario area, where they will have the night lights on in the evening time. Then we walked to the Ginza area for a little shopping, but it was more just looking at things that we would want to buy, but not really buy. I didn't think that my family wanted to buy anything really. They weren't interested in that, they just wanted to look at everything. We got some more good pictures out on the street too. There were just many things that they took pictures of.

We walked a bit much for the first day, so instead of going much further, we went back a little to the Ginza area. We had lunch not too long ago at an Italian restaurant in the new building area next to Yurakucho station. It wasn't too expensive and it got us out of the cold blowing wind. Before we left to go to Odaiba, we went back to Tokyo station because the Millenario lights just turned on and we walked through it and got some pictures. It was cool because I have some pictures during the day time and during the evening. I got some good pictures with the family too.

Then after all that, we went to Odaiba using the Yurikamome line. It was nice because they got a good view, it was getting dark at this time. We went to Fuji TV and around that area. I was trying to get a hold of EK because we were all going to have dinner together. He was getting off of work around 7pm. We decided to have dinner at Aqua City and it was one of the places that my sister picked. It turned out to be the worst food I've ever had. And it hit me hard in the wallet too. Since I paid for everyone's meal, the total cost was $178 and no one liked it. I'll remember never to go there again. Then we left to go home.