Today we had a much more eventful day than yesterday, visiting Tokyo Big Site, Odaiba, Central Tokyo and Akihabara! I'm not sure if we were supposed to go into Tokyo Big Site-as there were no tourists and millions of Japanese businessmen-but we went in anyway and got some good pic's from the roof. Odaiba was awesome. The whole of Odaiba is reclaimed land (land that used to be sea) and there is an awesome monorail thing that's on tyres (so it isn't actually a monorail). Most of Odaiba hasn't been built on, unlike the rest of Tokyo, but there is an awesome shopping/arcade/Toyota-showing-off centre with an added ferris wheel. It is called Venus shopping centre and has a Toyota museum, a shopping mall that is designed to look Italian (for no reason!), a 115m high ferris
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