Today it was time to go and look for some robots in Odaiba!
After a 60 minute ride on the subway and 20 minutes or so on a private line I arrived at the Odaiba station, or its real name Tokyo Teleport. I’m now in Odaiba an artificial created island to originally build a futuristic town, but was later developed into the leisure and tourist attraction it is now.
In the direct surroundings of the station next to the shopping malls, you have four attractions, the ferris wheel, the TV station with its iconic ball in the middle, a replica of the statue of liberty and a nearly full sized RX-O Unicorn Gundam.
Behind the Gundam is the Diver city shopping mall that hosts the Gundam Base Tokyo. A store filled with nearly every Gundam model kit, an exhibition showcasing a ton of completed models, a contest showcase and a room where you can start building the kits you just bought.
For Lunch I had some Osaka Yakisoba with a Gundam Taiyaki and some kind of strawberry drink. After that I watched the Gundam transform and went back to Akihabara for some more shopping!
I had dinner in some kind of peppered-beef restaurant.
This was certainly a fine day for me, looking at (and buying) some model kits from a series I loved as a child, the transformation and the Fuji TV building that has been destroyed o so many times in anime.