Picture of the Day #11 - Tokyo Tower

Yesterday the Rainbow Bridge was the Picture of the Day and it reminded me of one my Tokyo Tower pictures, so I choose this one for today.

You can easily reach it by going to the Roppongi Station via Hibiya Metro Line (grey) or Oedo Toei Line (magenta)

It has been taken September 2014 shortly after the Tokyo Game Show (Day 1) / (Cosplay Saturday), only the colors were changed.

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Enjoy:

Hamamatsucho, a Tower @Night and some pirates

I had to face the results of climbing Mt. Fuji, I needed sleep and felt sick, so I had to rest for half of the day - lucky and not really lucky at the same time.

Bad Luck - too late at the Zōjō-ji temple (Buddhist temple) so I couldn't buy charms

Bad luck again - too late to go to the observation deck of the Tokyo Tower - it was still possible, but there was and endless queue of people who wanted to get up. In my opinion the Tokyo Tower lost a lot of it's fame within the last years, the Skytree might be one of the main reasons. But it rewon a lot of fame - not its "own fame" - because of the One Piece shop and the One Piece exhibition.

Good luck - late enough to make great pictures of the TT at darkness.

But before reaching the temple I had to eat at MOS Burger - so delicious, especially the nuggets and the melon soda.

Some scenes of the X-Men Wolverine Movie were shot here, but I still can't find the exact place, except for the entrance in front of the main hall, but the rest seems to be one the restricted areas.

There was something wrong about this figurine, the tatoo of a cross on his left arm was missing.

Here Ruffy has the tatoo..

Well, One Piece is quite famous in Japan, so it results in overrunning this shop or restaurant right next to it.

Let's get back to the Tower itself... here it is, with some pictures. I didn't bring my tripod so it was kinda hard to keep a calm hand or to find a spot to take a good picture.

I couln't get anymore centric than this without my tripod ;)

Some last pictures of the Zōjō-ji temple

That's it again, I hope you liked it and not only the One Piece fans ;)

Lost in Shirokanedai

Sadly the title is completely right, I was not "Lost in Translation" but lost in Shirokanedai, but I will explain.

I caught a cold, so I stayed a bit longer in the hotel, drank a hot lemon and tried to recover.

At 2PM I finally left the hotel, I felt a bit better, hopefully the cold will be over soon.

I went out for a Book Off tour starting with Ikebukuro, I chose the wrong exit, so I had walk around the whole station.

When I got to the sunshine city complex I instantly entered the Book Off, I stayed there a while, because the offer is awesome, I bought a game guide for Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D, to be honest, I bought, another one for my colleague, both had a different price, 760 and 1250, so I talked to one of the workers to change the price, because the guides were both the same, none was damaged or so - he changed it. I also saw some GameCube games but could resist.

After that I went on to Shirokanedai, especially for the Book Off with over 40.000 foreign books..., at least that was my target, but there was no Book Off anymore, it was gone, I haven't checked yet, where it has moved (if), so I went down the road to get to the temple/shrine with the 47 Ronin and their master/Lord, should have been 500-700 meters - btw, rain started, no umbrella - after 2 hours (maybe less, at least it felt like this?) I finally reached the temple - I passed some other shrines, too - it was already almost closed, so I couldn't get into the left areal, where the ronin were, so I have to come again. Though I had my Map with me pro I couldn't find the right way to get there, some streets were gone others doesn't appear on my map...

I have to come back again, but next time I will manage it a bit better.

When I went on, I had problems to find a Metro station (had a one-day-Metro-Ticket, JR would not have helped, but even this wasn't in range), because there was no. I had to walk until the Tokyo Tower, I passed the embassidy of Kuwait, the Mita Junior High School, but no where a Metro station.

Being "lost" when having a cold in combination with rain (only small drops, but still anoying) isn't that nice...

Next to the TT I took the Kami..something station (Hibiya-Line) until Nakameguro for one final Book Off before I went back to the hotel.

I found 2 books about "Friends", they are awesome just like this show, in these books there are the original sedcards of the cast, for a big fan of this sitcom these background data is pretty nice, I already enjoyed reading the MAD comic strip, especially the last picture about "George" from Seinfeld is funny - I love both, "FRIENDS" and "SEINFELD" - I guess I will watch both series again, when I'm back in Germany.



That's all for now, tomorrow it's party time in Shibuya (especially Club Womb, was recommended by a few people), and also time for Asakusa and Kyuden, the Imperial Palace (at least the one small building that can be seen from outside of the palace, maybe it's nothing more than a "space for shoes of a princess that is almost never there" - kidding(?))