Tokyo Part 3

The last two days of our trip were a bit of a whirlwind. Saturday, we met up with a few friends who were also stationed at Topgun and now live on the mainland of Japan. They took a train into Tokyo to hang with us for the day.
We met Adam and Becky in the shopping area called "Ginza" This is where all of the super high end stores are. You know, the kind you don't really even feel comfortable going into because you know you can't afford a keychain!


However, we had to go into the 5 story Apple store. Yep, an insane amount of iPods, computers and well, that's about it. They even had a floor with a conference room dedicated to hearing Apple-related seminars! Ha ha!


We grabbed lunch a Hawaiian place then went to another area called Odaiba. Here is a picture of the Fuji electronics building.





We walked along the boardwalk for a bit, and what do you know, we saw the Statue of Liberty! Random, I know, but by now, I am not at all surprised by the random things I see in this country!


We walked up 110 steps (John counted) and found a showroom for all kinds of cars. The reason why we went to this particular area, was because I was told by a tour guide that since we have Japanese drivers licences, we can go to this area and test drive all of these futuristic cars! Well, technically that was true, if by futuristic, they meant the 2009 model of the Toyota Corolla.

Oh well. In the showroom there were plenty of funky vehicles to look at and one particularly beautiful Lexus that I am saving my pennies for!


So after a long day of sightseeing and cars, we bid farewell to our friends and spent one more night at our awesome hotel.


The last day, we had until 1pm until our bus left the hotel for the airport, so we decided to sneak a few more things in. I am a travel channel junkie and watched an episode on the best donut places in America! One of the best places only had locations in New york city and Tokyo, so of course I convinced John to go on the 30 minute trek to "Donut Plant". I was a good donut, made from only all natural ingredients (and they were square...ooh ahhh) but I probably wouldn't go out of my way again for these! Haha!


We hustled over to Harajuku for the slight possibility of taking a picture with the famous Harajuku girls.
Basically there are a bunch of crazy dressed girls that hang out in this area. they are supposed to be the epitome of Tokyo fashion. I actually saw some at Disney, but didn't get to my camera in time. We only saw a few and they weren't very close by, so I took a picture off of Google just to give you an idea.


As you can see, the style ranges from Little Bo Peep-ish to goth.


The main street was lined with shops and quite interesting clothing inside. Don't worry Dad, I didn't buy any of these outfits!


And one of my favorite parts of the trip...a GAP!!! Oh it has been so long since I have seen a real American store! I was so thrilled to see a store that wasn't weird and the clothes actually fit me! So that was a good ending of a trip for me!






Well I hope you enjoyed reading about our latest adventure and we hope that you are all saving up to come visit us and experience this country for yourselves!