Odaiba is nice, the sun is hot

We woke up in the morning at about 6:30, lounged around our apartment style hotel room, and prepared for the rest of the day. We hadn't planned a whole lot to do because we didn't know how we would be feeling and so we started looking into options for what we might do. We ate our leftover snacks and onigiri, showered, and put on our shoes. We headed to a local market, grabbed snacks and drinks for the morning, and hiked across town towards the river.

I had previously done some research on things in the area and had recommended taking a boat ride down the river towards an entertainment city called Odaiba. We grabbed some last minute tickets, hopped on a boat,and sailed under the many bridges of the Sumida river.

We decided not to fight against all of the other families who were in line, and so they stole all of the good seats on the boat, leaving us outside to bake in the sun on the boat. Note to self, other families in Japan do not care about other families in Japan and it's every family for themselves. Time to teach my family how to do five finger death punches. Elizabeth says that this is not the way. She can sit outside in the sun.

First, We hit the vending machine for water and what looked like ginger ale but turned out to be melon soda and grape juice. We hiked up to see the Statue of Liberty, finding ourselves in New York for some reason.

After that, we walked through the blazing sun to a Gundam sitting outside of a building.

After that, we found a big sign that said Tokyo, took some pictures, and headed to our entertainment for the day in Joypolis-- a Sega owned theme park that was all indoors, which was an excellent boon on this 95° day.

We enjoyed the Blue Lock themed roller coaster, although I predicted that it would be mostly extemporation and not actually any roller coastering, which turned out to be true.

We took another ride, grabbed lunch at the cafe, puttered around in a massive claw game arcade and eventually grabbed the train home, which took about an hour.

While on the train,we played layoverlord, a game I've been working with Claude on. It's getting there, but still rough around the edges.

After a quick stop at home, we headed to a little hole in the wall omikase place called sushi 468. Though it looked closed, we eventually opened the door and the owner greeted us, offered a price and then made us a 3 course meal while entertaining the kids with jokes, little paper art pieces, and physics. It was a good evening.

We grabbed some breakfast onigiri for tomorrow and headed home, tired from a long day of steps, sunburns, sega, shinkansen, and sushi.