Japonaut: Tokyo II (last of the humongo-entries)

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October 01, 2004

Tokyo II (last of the humongo-entries)

I promise that this is the last of the jam-packed posts, from now on I’m going to edit the entries down to just a few photos if not just one.
Tokyo is massive, it emulates the five burrows of New York but with twenty plus areas instead of a wimpy five. Even in such a big city we still found our way around, the subway lines being fairly well designed, but I won’t go off on a tangent about that (yet…). My little posse wanted to see art, wanted to see the city and just wanted to explore, it was good times all around.

Oh I think my back still hurts from this overnight bus. Eight hours to Tokyo with a whopping total of two hours of sleep, all in the name of adventure. (Pirates follow me everywhere!)

When I got off the bus the first thing I noticed was that my friends weren’t waiting for me. We had miss communicated the locations and were on opposite sides of town. Luckily I found a subway station and navigated to their stop. I’m still amazed that I never got lost.

Some of the sidewalks had small flashing patterns of lights embedded in them.

I still don’t quiet know what’s going on here, but this is a passing fad, and I’ve seen a number of girls dressed up in animal and character costumes just strolling around.

This is plastic food, yum. Most restaurants have these displays and I can’t be anymore thankful for the ability to point at what I want to order. Every night I pray to the god plasticoliosis for such fine luck.

I almost bought this little guy for my phone, that’s it right there, hot orange, so I won’t ever lose it. I’ve also been tempted by little remote controlled pets, the remote simply plugs into your phone and turns it into the controller.

Amen brother.

Those who look for art shall find it. This crystal structure is slowly but constantly changing because the rope it’s built on has a fluid constantly pumping through it.

Hanging out at an opening at the Rocket Gallery.

On Saturday I ventured by my lonesome to the National Museum of Emerging Science and Technology. Wow I was blown away it was amazing. This is a part of an analog-style, hands-on, demonstration of the Internet. Love, love, love.