14th September
Day 9 – Riding around Tokyo, checking out the Sony Building in Ginza and
visiting the shopping streets in Ueno.
Friday was another early
wake up as Locky as he had to go to school so I woke up early as well to leave
his flat with him. Today my plan was to do some more bike riding around Tokyo!
Its so much fun riding around in Tokyo, you get to see so much of the city, and
because its so flat its quite an easy ride as you can push yourself as much or
as little as you want.
My legs are still aching
from Mt. Fuji so its nice to jump on a bike to ride away the pain and soreness.
So I had already tried to visit the Sony Building once before but it was
closed, so this was my second attempt, it was pretty easy to find as I have
this new app for my phone that downloads offline maps to your phone and then
uses the GPS built into the phone to track your location! It’s actually really
handy!
So I eventually found the
Sony Building that was a fair ride from Locky’s place maybe an hour away. But
like I said before it’s nice riding around Tokyo.
I locked my bike up with
the thinnest bike lock I had ever seen, just praying that my bike wouldn’t get
nicked as I spend time checking out all the gadgets in the Sony Building.
I explored the many
floors of the Sony building, everything from the gaming section to the music
section to the TV’s and cameras. I touched, used and tried everything! It was
so much fun, I could have spent (if I had the money) hundreds of thousands of
dollars on EVERYTHING.
A couple of the big
highlights for me, were trying on the headphones. So my first pair I tried on
were over $200AUD which were some really nice Sony over the ear headphones and
I listened to my own music. I found the bassiest track I could find a rocked
out! Whilst I was rocking out (on my own) I looked over to my left and realised
that there was an even more expensive pair, with an amplifier that you plug
your iPhone into to increase the sound quality.
I finished the song I was
listening to and tried the new setup. Ok, so the headphones themselves cost
49,800YEN ($612AUD) and then the small iPhone Amplifier is 39,800YEN ($489AUD)
so the whole setup cost $1.101AUD, and it sounded awesome! I just wish I could
have bought them and taken them home to listen! It was great!
After I had my head blown
off by some of the most amazing audiophile equipment I have ever tried I headed
up to the Camera equipment and took some photos of the little model train sets
that they have located near the Camera kit. It was fun! But again I couldn’t
afford any of it.
Next up was the TV and
Entertainment centre. I was just walking around this building with a huge smile
on my face and shaking my head in just astonishment, I got chatting with on the
Japanese girls that work there and I explained to her how great this was. She
pointed me upstairs to the next room that featured the latest in 3D
entertainment, the Sony Headset/Goggles!
I waited in line for 15
minutes playing with the cool Sony Phones and Tablets until I was called into
this room, where there were 4 stations and a really comfy leather chair next to
each station. On each station there was a Sony Headset and a pair of the
$612AUD headphones!
So you sit down in this
chair and a Japanese girl explains to you in Japanese how to adjust the headset
to fit your head, clearly myself and the other American guy in the room had no
idea what was happening. We managed with a little bit of help from the ladies,
put the headphone on and watched the trailer for the new Spiderman in 3D! I’ve
seen the movie, but in 3D it looked AMAZING!
I came out of that room
once again just giggling in excitement thinking that one day, this will be
normal!
At the moment, I think
the Headset was a bit to bulky and heavy, and that after 30 minutes of watching
you will get a sore neck… but this is only the beginning!
After the amazing 3D
experience, I went up another set of stairs and watched This Is It, the Michael
Jackson movie on a huge TV with great speakers.
Once I had had enough and
go to depressed to continue I went to the toilet and got my bum washed and
dried using the special toilets and then headed back outside to find my bike in
exactly the same place I’d left it.
I jumped back on my Pink
bike a travelled to to just check out
another small suburb in Tokyo. There was lots going on, people everywhere, lots
of markets it was really great. I was looking for some special Japanese 2 toe’d
shoes called Tobi, I found a pair but they were 3,000Yen and I was sure I could
find some cheaper.
Anyway, it was getting
late, so I road my bike back to Shinjuku to meet Locky and his Japanese
girlfriend so we could head back to their flat together.
It was a great evening,
Locky and his Girlfriend cooked some great Okanamiyaki which filled me up and
let me pass out with food sleeps! Perfect.
TL;DR – Checked out all the gadgets in the Sony Building, and had some amazing food!
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| The Imperial Palace in Tokyo, it was closed so i couldnt go in, instead i took this photo! |
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| One of the many Japanese Parks! |
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| Who would of thought there was a Hooters in Tokyo, Ginza! |
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| The fully pimped out Amp + Headphone setup! |
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| This little guy was awesome... its a WATCH!!!! |
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| The shopping street in Ueno! |
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| So much activity! |
Stay Tuned! They are coming quick and fast!
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