More Historical Touristy Stuff

Schedule was changed up today because the weather was so nice, so we headed off to the Imperial Palace which was a little hike from the hotel. I took the most pictures here out of anywhere, even the Natural Museum, and I’m not sure why.

It was beautiful, but we weren’t allowed inside. Apparently the actual palace is only open a few days a year.

Nevertheless, it was a gorgeous place, I just expected to have more images of dinosaur skeletons than a park area.

I took a lot of sequence photos that I’m hoping to turn into cool panoramas soon. Especially of the waterfall with the koi lake. Got a few good drawings in, but the only ones I really liked were gestures of the woman in a bridal gown taking her wedding photos there. What a cool place to do it!

Otherwise there isn’t much else interesting to say. When we left, we took a detour and saw THE coolest statue ever.

Three words. Samurai Equestrian Statue.

Totally freakin’ awesome.

Took some time to do a bad drawing of it even after everyone left, and when trying to make my way back… Got absolutely lost in Ginza. Fortunately I was with Charles, so we were at the very least lost together. We looked so distressed that one man on his bike that knew a little English actually came up to us to help.

But in the end we went to the subway, took the one stop to get us close to the hotel, and that’s how we got ourselves unlost. Doesn’t it feel great to be a tourist? Urgh.

Then the two of us shipped ourselves over to Akihabara. He went to get another Gundam, and I just wanted to see it.

I was brought back to middle school again to the time when all I could think, sleep, and breathe was anime. It was awesome.

Not that anyone cares BUT I GOT A ZOID. And not one of the lame little wind up ones that have no poseability (which is a word now) that you find at Toys R Us. No, this thing was as good as a Gundam but in Zoid form. I’d rant more about it but nobody cares. I seem to be the only one who liked them. I’ll probably have a whole blog post devoted to the Command Wolf I got in the near future.

I wanted to find Big O, and I’m still trying. It’s hard to ask for it. Language barrier and all that.
Anyway, Akihabara was awesome. The main reason most people seemed to go there for was the arcade version of the new Street Fighter game.