We met Michael's dad and stepmom in Tokyo over a holiday weekend to see some of the sights. One of our first stops was the Tokyo tower! Michael and I went out on Friday night for dinner after Steve and Jan flew in (they needed some major shut eye after the long flight!) and hit the Hard Rock Cafe - it was great to have some greasy American food! However... we were told that everything was within walking distance that we wanted to see. So we started off on foot. 90 minutes later we were still lost - a Tokyo subway map written in Kanji and a "cartoon" map that wasn't to scale weren't exactly the best guides. Eventually we found the Roppongi Hills Mori Tower, which was very cool:
The area we were in when I took this picture was up a floor from the street level. On that same level there was a huge spider sculpture (think 25 ft legs with a huge body suspended in the middle of them) - but it was too dark to get a picture of it. We also took this picture:
After walking a bit more we hit the nightlife district (Roppongi area) - where all sorts of club promoters are trying to get (aka "herd") you into their club. I looked down a random alley and we finally round the Hard Rock!
After a hefty meal we started walking...again. We found the Tokyo Tower - although we were still a ways away:
The next day we headed to the top of the tower. At the bottom there was an entertainer with a trained monkey that I liked to watch:
Pictures from the top (Michael took most of these since I am not real comfortable with heights and kept my distance most of the time from the sides of the tower):
We also went to the Imperial Palace and saw some of the gardens:
Steve and Jan at the Meiji Shrine at Shibuya:
There was some sort of race that was about to start so we got to see some really neat cars:
Michael and I headed over to Harajuku Station to experience some of the fun outfits you always see on the travel channel :)
It was packed!!! We crossed the major crosswalk where so many millions of people cross a day and then headed up the Omotesando street, which is considered the "Champs-Elysees" of Tokyo with all sorts of high end stores (i.e. Huge Louis Vuitton, Chanel, Prada, etc stores). After walking and getting lost for a good hour and a half, we finally found a Seattle's Best Coffee where I could reload on some caffeine, and we found a train station that would take us to:
The Tokyo Dome!!
It was a very cool building - across the street was a huge amusement park with roller coasters and all sorts of rides.
Thanks for meeting us over there Steve and Jan :)
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