From the back entrance of the Tower.
Another angle from the bottom
The complexity of the tower was insane! all these beams and stuff. I wonder who designed this thing.
From the main observatory. The white thing is apparently a satellite pod or something maybe they said it was for their force field when godzilla attacks.
And through the scratched up window, you can see down below. The grey thing with lines is one of the parking lots. you can see some cars parked on the streets as well.
This was the bottom floor of the main observatory. Can you see that guy standing on a brightly lit panel? Thats a window! It was really scratched up but you can see the tower right below you.
The second observatory was all decked out like a scene from Star Treck. This is the elevator entrace.
See? I'd expect some crazy super hot martian alien woman from planet Calculon 5. ok ok thats too many references to random songs and shows.
The Blue lights turned green after a while.
Then back to blue. I had to wait in line for half an hour to get up here. But it was worth it. Tokyo is simply amazing. I say that every time, but ya. wow. Lights everywhere!
The blue light christmas trees are on either side of the walk way taking up to the park like area. The Tokyo Tower in the background.
Walking up the steps, there was a Green LED christmas tree. It seemed kinda sad all by its lonesome. It looked cool though.
Up close, there was an awesome view of the tree with the Tower. The green LED's made an awesome glow.
Walking down the path, there were more blue trees. i dont know if you can see it in the thumbnail view of this picture, but there was this red rope light thing on the floor. Didnt know what that was but it looked strangely out of place.
Up top from the Tokyo Tower, it was an outline of Santa Claus! The big building you see there is the Park Tower Hotel. This was taken at the 150m floor of the tower.
This one was taken at 250 meters. This was at the top level of the Tokyo Tower. Can you see the green glow of that one chrstmas tree? It looked real cool so I'm sharing.
and this one, just cuz it turned out real cool. No Photoshopping, this was in the sidewalk area of where the christmas tree things were. neat aye?
This is my old room without the crap. Just the last 2 bags and some small knick knacks.
The new room after i hauled everything up 2 floors. Lots of junk. The burning question is, will this all fit in my suitcase? the answer, NO! No chance in HELL~!!! I'll need to buy one of those Boston bags or whatever they're called.
The view: since it was 2 floors directly above me the view is the same. all except that i have a more elevated view of the same scene. Quite nice actually. To the left of this is the Tokyo Tower. Unfortunately, I can only see the very tip of it because of a big building blocking my view.
What I couldnt see before was this bridge. I think its called the "Rainbow Bridge". It connects tokyo to some penninsula like part on the outskirts of tokyo called Odaiba. Theres also a monorail that runs on the bottom side of this bridge. Seems cool, if i have time, im planning on checking out the view.
I was talking to Aki about Fridays and he's never heard about it. So we went during one of our lunch breaks and these people have the old uniforms!
They have to wear a minimum of 17 Flares! hahaha yet another movie reference? Everyone there was happy and chipper. Apparently most of the people there speak english too! Apparenly theres a lot of American tourists that go there. hahahaha
Women only? hahaha thats a guy's dream come true! A train car full of women? I didnt know what it was about so I moved down a bit and waited for the train.
The sign on the door again says women only from start to 9am. I think this train route had some problems with guys feeling up on women during the morning rush. I've heard this on the news a long time ago but when you're packed like sardines in a small train, I suppose "accidents" can happen.
Anyone want to guess what that is?
I couldnt resist sneaking in a snap shot of this guy. The first description that popped in my head was "No Talent Ass Clown". Can you name that movie?
Had to color correct this one due to a massive glare.
I guess after you punch a bunch of times, you earn Special Move points. The girl in the Bandai jacket (I think she was a rep) was explaining to the boy how to excecute the power moves. Basically you pull back your hands and clasp them like they do in the Anime.
"...HA~!!!!!!!!"
Front Entrance... Lots of people wandering around in and out.
Japanese Barbies!? they were a bit different than the typical Blonde hair'ed, big Boobed, full-of-Plastic kinds. They were fancy though.
i dont know what this guy was all about but he was kinda neat looking. Scary~!
I took the elevator from to the 6th floor and walked down to see what was on every floor. Needless to say, even the stair case was colorful. Maybe its a bit dark in this pic... but ya. lots of colors.
See? even the garbage can is all cool and crazy! Each floor had a different color theme to it. I think this one was taken on the Hello Kitty floor or something. I did NOT, however, take a picture of all the different color schemes of the garbage cans on every floor... People were looking at me like I was crazy doing this one.
Pink! that can only mean one thing... girlie stuff. hahaha
Wait! This floor is green... and theres still girlie stuff! Wheres all the cool boy toys?
And of course, theres TOTORO Everywhere! I like this blunted totoro. i think hes hiding his visine in his back pocket. lol.
Note: This is NOT photoshopped!
The entire shop is like a book store. Stacked mile high with comic books, DVDs, magazines and video games!
I chose the computer option because they set you up in a more private cubicle looking setup. The computers there have net access similar to what you see here. Its basically a real cramped cubicle but is enough room for you to kick back and relax.
The computer that was available all had flat screen monitors.
Unfortunately, we were not able to get the booths like the ones in the movie. Oh well, bragging rights? Maybe. Tasty food? Mos Def!
When I hopped out of the train station, I arrived in Snoopy Town...
To get to the downtown area, I walked though "Harajuku Avenue(?)". This is known as the teenybopper centeral of Tokyo.
This narrow street is jam packed with people.
and more people...
and more people. LOOK! Theres a McDonalds!
The blue character you see is called "Doraemon". He's been around since the 70's or so. I grew up watching this guy and he still holds his popularity.
Whoa~! Check these transformers out! The big red one is definitely, Optimus Prime! Its a fully transforming one too!