Tokyo History

Yesterday was a day where I thought I can do too much.
I planned alot and thought of a nice tour. But at the end it didn’t work out the way I wanted.

I wanted to check the areas where I don’t have that much to visit. And that was alot.

Red marks showing the driver when he has to break? Assumed he isn’t driving too fast.

In order to protect pedestrians from car accidents and to save time there are alot of this bridges above crossings and streets. You don’t see this kind of stuff in Germany. Way better than traffic signals.

First thing to visit was the NHK Broadcasting Museum I mentioned the other day. The history of radio and television in Japan is displayed in here. To be more specifically the history of NHK.
It all started being a radio station and then evolving into a TV station. Taking pictures inside was forbidden. Seems like japanese don’t like their stuff being photographed?

I couldn’t get a better pic of the building. At the entrance is a logo but a bench is in front of it and you cannot see the logo as a whole…

Near the museum is the Tokyo Tower. This 333 meter high tower is an exact copy of the Eiffel Tower in Paris. Well not exactly. The Tokyo Tower is 11 meter bigger.

The entrance fee for the observation deck in 150 meters high, including the aquarium, the wax museum and the Modern Science Museum is 820 Yen. I didn’t pay because somewhere other I can get higher and have a better view for less moolah. And the stuff on ground wasn’t that interesting for me.

And the waiting time of an hour was another reason for a no.

Why should I spend money for looking down if I can look up for free?

After that I walked to the pier to breath some fresh sea air. And I already mentioned that it always pays off to walk the distance. I discovered the Pokemon Center Tokyo which isn’t in Nihonbashi, like I read on several websites, but in Mamatsuchô. When I go back from the pier I deffinetly will pay a visit.

In the middle of the space is a mast. Well, it kinda matches the pier feeling but somehow I don’t really like it.

The Rainbow Bridge leading to Odaiba.

One was finally allowed to take pictures inside a store. But it was crowded so I didn’t really tried the impossible. It was a sunday, what should I expect. But I accepted the battle and I had to wait less than half an hour to enter. But inside I wasn’t able to move and I couldn’t buy all that I wanted. But it is another example why being an otaku outside of Japan can be such a pain.

After that the next destination was the Edo-Tokyo Museum. Entrance fee 600 Yen. I had absolutely no problems with paying for this, because the museum was huuuuuuuuge. I really mean huuuuuuuge! I don’t know how big in squaremeter bbut the whole history of Edo respetively Tokyo was displayed in this building. They don’t just tell the plain history like how the city was build etc but how the people lived in the history of Tokyo.

Is there any entrance for a museum more awesome than this one?

And one is allowed to take pictures of the stuff they display. Edo-Tokyo Museum +50 Respect.
There were masses of miniatures showing the city and the citizens. They even have binoculars for those miniatures. Yes binoculars. If you saw the model through those glasses the whole scene looked really authentic. As real! A very lovely idea.

A 1:1 copy of a small part of Edo, no miniature.

There even was a replica of a bridge.

An artist selling his pictures.

This is what the miniatures looked like.

The effect they used for the water made it look like real water! Awesome work.

Look at the, what I like to call it, “sumo bumb”. So even a sumo wrestler can enter this car easyly (Black-White-Effekt by Museum).

I entered the museum at around 15:00 and I finally left it way after 18:00. I spend three hours inside without resting on a chair or using too much time on single exhibition items. And I haven’t even seen all of it.
But I was too tired to continue on so I decided to do the last two attractions I wanted to visit on another day and go back to the hotel.

Just like always you can see more pictures over here. Especially of the Edo-Tokyo Museum.