After a visit to the Sumida Hakusai museum, we wanted to explore an area we hadn’t seen yet. Being Tokyo, there were hundreds of neighborhoods as yet unvisited so really, it could be anywhere. Grubb wanted to head to Odaiba, an area by the bay. We had no inkling that on a fine Sunday afternoon, that’s where tons of Tokyo-ans were spending their day. No inkling until the overcrowded train pulled up and we barely squeezed ourselves into the packed car.
At the Daiba Station, the train emptied onto a huge promenade. The arena sized DiverCity Tokyo Plaza shopping mall in front, a fairground with music pounding behind us, the Museum of Emerging Science and Technology off in the distance, we gulped fresh air and let the crowd carry us where it would,
We halted, as many people did, in front of the bizarre 19.7-meter-tall replica of the RX-0 Unicorn Gundam from the Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn series. And if you don’t know what that is, I can’t help you because neither do I. Some kind of transformer deal. Suddenly, the thing started belching music, the unicorn-like horn split apart, the head opened, and the knee caps popped a hatch. A few moments later, everything reversed. Huh.
Nothing says mass Tokyo quite like an afternoon in Odaiba.
The oversized go cart race course.
On Tokyo Bay
