tokyo day 3

plan for the morning... tsukiji fish market~ budden end up... i think i woke up late tis time @_@ ahhhh... so missed the auctioning for tuna... reached the market around 9am... :S
it was kinda hard to walk around in the market as everyone is driving some motorised goods transporter (with a giant steering wheel) all over the place and seems like we just get in their way D: but we do see lotsa fishes/crabs/shells etc and even some unidentified fishes or dunno wat :S and there's sooooooooo many fishes that they're selling... i wonder if they can even finish selling it :X

after the tour in the market, we headed to the nearby shops which have quite a few sushi bar... all with long queue... it's juz a matter of who's queue is longer @_@ polar bear said dai wa (da4 he2 in chinese) sushi is good.. so end up we decided to eat that... and joined the alreadi uber long queue... was famished half way through the queueing... and praying that ppl quickly eat finish :S that sushi's good... and very special... don't think you can find any of those in SG... and of cuz, damn fresh~ :D budden sometimes like put too much wasabi in *tears* though i had to warn ppl never to eat abalone sushi... it's really tooooooooooo chewy :S (i.e. kinda hard) taste ok but... to reach the point of swallowing is kinda difficult :S but i had to say... their sushi's kinda ex :X but ok la... they're unique :D

after that, we headed to tokyo tower~ nid to walk abit and we noticed some botak trees along the way... could they be... sakura trees? tokyo tower i feel still looks nicer on the day.... although it's not very tall, it offered a better view (probably becuz i go in the day also) than the Tokyo Metropolitian Govt office.... and as usual, can't see Mt. Fuji at all due to the fog :( and i think they should make their lift transparent instead of putting some fanciful lights inside... :D

after staying near a couple of hours there... we walked to another station (slightly further away) so it has a direct train down to the imperial palace nearby (otemachi station)... too bad we cannot go into the imperial palace... can only loiter around outside... take pictures and see people doing paintings of the palace... interesting

we then walked to tokyo station to take a train down to Shimbashi where we could take the monorail down to Odaiba... but before that, is lunch at shimbashi area... and we had soba wif sakura ebi tempura for mi and yasai tempura for polar bear... after filling our tummy, we stopped by to munch on a strawberry shortcake... my sis insist i shld try the strawberry shortcake in japan... but not exactly that spectacular i feel... got other more interesting looking cakes leh :S

finished the cake, took the yurikamome line down to Odaiba... alighting at tokyo big sight cuz polar bear is interested in it's building structure... (i think he should be an architect in the 1st place since that's his interest)... then we walked all the way back to palette town... and headed for toyota's show room MegaWeb... this is where i spotted a petite toyota car which i like... Toyota iQ... well, SG wun have unless u parallel import... but will cost u a bomb :X then we went to take a lookie at other cars... realise we cannot test drive cuz we din convert license to international license... but settled for an alternative.. E-com... some auto car ride that the car will drive by itself... but after realising it relies on the sensors on the floor, it's kinda disappointing... (i thought it's really that smart at the beginning) but the ride wasn't too bad... at least i looked like i drove a car there haha! then we headed to have a try on their simulator... i was ranked a driver wif safety level at B with or without the anti skid function they're trying to intro.. heheh... then took the racing simulator for F1... but it din feel too good as the seat is uncomfy... after that, we're quite done wif MegaWeb and headed to Venusfort (the shopping mall to take a look)

Venusfort is all pretty and expensive inside... we found a car museum inside and i only then realise how big a cadillac was :S. we then end up finding entertainment in the arcade (oops again)... was playing wif cork shooting air guns and got some titbits and candies as spoils... then for the first time tried some slot machine which we grew bored of... then tried a medal game which we got abit addicted :O so we loose all our medals back since we can't reallie cash it out....
after that, we headed for the ferris wheel... which is also quite expensive... and though it offered a better scene than taiwan's it's not exactly that spectacular either... due to the lack of excitment, i think i shall give ferris wheels a miss in future...

hungry after the ferris wheel ride cuz it's way pass dinner time... we headed back to shinjuku... on the way tried to take a picture of the rainbow bridge but it's hard due to moving train + night scene... dinner was not so fantastic ramen @ shinjuku... sigh.. where's one wif marutama standard?