Tokyo, Day 2 and 3

It's been a while since we shared info from during the trip Nicki's brother, David, was here. So I'll continue where we left off. Basically, he was here for about 10 days and we spent three nights for his trip at a hotel up in Tokyo, so that we would be near all of the action. On the second day of his Tokyo excursion, we took him east of Tokyo to Chiba to see Tokyo Disneyland.

It was the perfect day to see Disneyland, too, smack dab in the middle of Obon Week - which is a holiday week here in Japan also known as "everyone go to all the nearby tourist attractions" week. It also happened to be "How hot can Mother Nature let today get" day. Let's just say that we didn't get to ride many rides because of the crowds and it was rather unenjoyable, if that's even a word. But we made the best of it and Josh seemed to have an incredible time. We made it in Disneyland until the early afternoon and then hit the road.

That night, we went back to Shibuya to show David what downtown Tokyo looks like in the dark. Even though it wasn't very dark. David quickly decided that Shibuya must be where all the attractive girls go at night because the streets were crowded and well, David had a good point. Anyway, Nicki was kind enough to put up with our testosterone-based conversation and we had a pretty fun time just walking around acting goofy.

On Day 3 in Tokyo, we took David to Odaiba to see the cool science stuff at the Panasonic building. If you have never been there and get the chance (and are a closet science geek), that place is a lot of fun. They have a great exhibition on the third floor that they call "RiSuPia", for reasons that I can neither explain nor understand. Regardless, we did the science stuff for a while and then took David to Akihabara, the electronics capital of Japan. We showed him around the area and ended up at Yodobashi Camera, where we managed to spend about 3.5 hours before getting tired of looking at cool gadgets.

I didn't take my camera with us on Day 3, but I got some fun shots on Day 2 in Tokyo. Also, we sat in a family-friendly photo booth at RiSuPia, so we did get two pictures from there on Day 3. They're all in our Gallery, dated 09/03/2007.