We started out our first full day in Tokyo by visiting Yoyogi Park and Takeshita Shopping Street. As we wandered thru Takeshita Street we found a capsule store where we picked up a new friends for Triceraduck, Sloth Farmer-san.
After checking out all the shops, we took a walk thru Yoyogi Park and checkout the Meiji Jingu Shrine at the center of the Park.
Then we crossed Tokyo to Odaiba where there was art installation call teamLab Planet Tokyo. It was a mixed media installation meant to have experience spaces and your different senses throughout the art installation which you traverse barefoot. You start by walking uphill through flowing water to a water fall at the top. Then walk thru a room with a soft floor that sinks under you and causes you to fall over.
Then you walk thru dark corridors with minimal lighting and different textures on the floor vary as you walk. You round a corner into a mirror & LED filled room. It’s hard to describe what thousands of hanging LEDs is like in a mirror filled room but it’s pretty cool.
After leaving the LED room we then went into another water filled room where the water was up to our knees and cloudy (ewwww) and they projected swimming koi fish on to the top of the water. It was hard to get a good picture of it so you’ll have to just imagine it. Once we wiped the questionable water off our feet, we went into a room filled with large color changing orbs that changed color when you hit them.
After we got bored hitting the orbs we wandered to the “garden” part of the exhibit where there were weird reflective beans in a moss garden and hanging orchids that slowly move up out of your way as you got close to them.
We finished up teamLabs and went to checkout a retro arcade, many candy stores, and the takoyaki museum…. Jacob was very excited about the takoyaki museum… so many kinds of takoyaki to try.
We stopped for a drink at a speakeasy, High Five, and several delicious drinks before heading back to the Shinjuku area to meet up with friends for yakitori. We met in a place called Omoide Yokochō sometimes referred to as Piss Alley. It’s a small street near Shinjuku station that is full of small yakitori shops with seats that surround the cook as they grill the chicken skewers.
After dinner we went for a night cap at Bar Ben Fiddich, a relatively famous cocktail bar in Tokyo that has consistently been on the top 50 bars of the world list.
