Yesterday I went up to Yokohama to see Kyoko and Nu again, which was a lot of fun.
We went to the 150th anniversary of 開国, the opening of Japan to the rest of the world. And what better way to celebrate, than with a fucking giant robot spider? I’m sure it made sense in someone’s mind. It was pretty interesting, to say the least. People came from far and wide to see that thing move and make hissing noises. The crowds were once again ridiculous (I went to Harajuku the day before, and to get into the station took about 25 minutes, just to swipe in at the counter). There were thousands of people lined up for every event, and some of them had wait times of over an hour and a half. Oh, Japan. Because of that we didn’t get to see TOO many things. But we also saw this weird anime movie project which was interesting and pretty cool. The line was like an hour long, though, and the theater fit about 1,000 people per 20 minute viewings, so there must have been a TON of people waiting. The next day, we went to a 動物園 Zoorashia, and saw lots of cool animals. Their main attraction was this weird giraffe/horse/zebra looking hybrid thing called okapi.
Picture: Some fruit in Harajuku.

Here's a video of the spider robot.