Saturday, January 19, 2008

Tokyo day sixteen



Today we went to the harbour area at Odaiba. We went to the Fuji TV studios and saw TV shows being made. Other things we did

* Rode on a monorail
* Stood in a 1200 tonne ball 25 floors up
* Seen a huge replica of the Statue of Liberty
* Eaten in a Japanese McDonalds ("shakka shakka chicken!")
* Been to a replica 1960's Japanese street
* Went to the emerging science museum (Chris says; "ace, they had a nanotechnology bit, which is what I do at work")
* Stood inside a neutrino detector (for finding tiny subatomic particles)
* Had an infra-red heat scan of our faces (see picture)
* Seen the autograph of Buzz Aldrin, second man on the moon
* Had my picture taken with the car from Back to the Future
* Been to the largest car showroom in the WORLD
* Had a ride in a driverless car (look, no hands)

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