Odaiba, Tokyo Dome, etc...

I haven't been doing a ton of interesting stuff recently, but I have some updates.

Last week, I went to Odaiba, which is this man-made island right off of Tokyo. It was originally used for building weapons or something, but was later converted into a very nice resort-type place. I really liked it, it was beautiful. It felt much more spacious than main Tokyo. We went to an artificial beach, and saw a smaller version of the statue of liberty. They kind of failed at the beach (there were no waves, and you couldn't go in the water really. Also, there were these people who were trying to raft or something, but they couldn't move and they just kept falling over). Then we went to the mall, where they had a lot of cool stuff. They had this European section that was built like Venice or something, and had a fake sky and everything. We went to a Toyota headquarters type place, and drove in these fake car simulators, which was fun and free. Also, we went to this bizarre theater (the kind where the chairs move and go crazy), which was simulating a race car. They played this really hilarious and epic opera music. We also went on the famous Ferris wheel, which was a lot of fun.

We also ventured to Park Hyatt in Shinjuku, which is where a lot of Lost in Translation took place. We got to go up to the bar on the top floor, but we felt weird being so under-dressed (everyone was in tuxedos, and our wardrobe included a batman shirt). But we decided that we should go back near the end and dress up nicely.



We also went to the Tokyo Dome, which is where all the major baseball games go on. But we didn't really go inside, we just walked around the area, which is also kind of like an amusement park.

Hmm...I am continuing my tutoring lessons, which is going well. I get about 25 dollars per hour, which is pretty amazing. Also, I got a haircut and didn't come out with crazy punk Japanese hair.