Hi, Alex here, I’m going to try writing some blog. I’ll begin my post with a beautiful quote i heard here in Japan:

“Ideas come from curiosity. It’s important to have someone you want to do it for.”

We ate sandwiches for breakfast, outside the Shinbashi station. ¥800 for a BLT and drink. That’s just great value. And that’s also the second BLT (Bacon, Lettuce, Tomato) sandwich I’ve had in Japan too. Hard truth: Japan has nailed down the BLT sandwich 100%, I wouldn’t be surprised at this point if I bought a third one before I leave.

The bacon strip was a nice, thick cut and slightly undercooked, paired with a medley of fresh leaf and tomato. Sauce, a pink mayo dressed lightly to bring out the harmony of his friends and creating a gracefully aggressive etude of flavours.

I had a melon soda too, green drink with some ice.

What else was good…

This is the beautiful Rainbow Bridge to the island world of Odaiba! It is also the largest artifical island in the world. I made that last part up, but it might be true. Anyway, the train ride gave us some beautiful visuals entering Odaiba and got us very excited for our day of island adventures.

Ice cream at the beach! Closest one to the camera is Nina’s Cookie and Cream (a bland choice in my opinion, why eat something you can eat in Toronto, but I’m sure it was tasty). I had Soda Pop flavoured sherbet, tasted pretty good, sort of like flat Sprite mixed with grinded up Tic Tacs, served cold. 7/10

Naturally, after a refreshing walk along the beach we needed to hit up a retro japanese arcade. This place had some crazy old machines. We’re talking first generation pinball, hammer-the-gopher games, sega driving games, the first Halo, some really forgotten pieces of arcade gaming history.

Definitely washed our hands after this place though. Tons of kids.

They had a Takoyaki Museum here (Takoyaki is japanese for Octopus Tacos). All kinds of vendors selling many styles of Takoyaki balls and tons of history displays.

Odaiba has an amazing Automobile Museum with a bunch of vintage cars. There’s even a race track circling the place with active races to watch (including cafes!) Pretty surreal stuff.

And right around the corner was a life-sized, 1:1 scale of a Gundam robot mech! (If you’re unfamiliar with Gundam, it’s a long running japanese series about giant fighting robots, based on the american film Pacific Rim)

This mall had it’s own sky that changed depending on the time of day. That way, if you’re shopping and want to know what time it is, you just look up.

Nina got a handbag. I don’t know much about handbags, but this was a good one.

Nina makes these blogs seem so easy. I’ve realized when I draw a blank on what to write I’ll just drag in some pictures to do the talking. A picture is worth a thousand words, as they say. So after conversion, my pictures will be worth about 10.81 canadian words each.

Night time in Odaiba! As we travel back outside we get to see this beautifully lit ferris wheel under the clear night sky. Wish we had a chance to ride it, but we were short on time. But don’t worry, this next part was amazing!

The restaurant Sweet Paradise is exactly what it sounds like. But also not really as accurate as calling it Cake & Spaghetti Little Girl Dance Studio Emporium Ice Cream Costs Extra.

All we really expected was cake, but we got a full dinner and show from an idol girl group performing their latest dance hits in front of all the customers and one really enthusiastic old dude.

Imagine Medieval Times but with less horses and more dancing school girls and cake. Do they serve cake at Medieval Times anymore or was that a dream I had? Comment below if you know.

Anyway, that was pretty much our day and my first attempt at posting on our blog.

See you tomorrow, friends!