Welcome To The Future

On my ‘Sunday’, I decided to contrast yesterday’s old and serene Tokyo with the most modern areas in the Japanese capital (as well as one VERY old area).

Jody and I headed to Ginza, the technological centre of Japan. There wasn’t loads to see, except for the Sony Building. This was full of the latest models of cars, cameras, televisions etc. However, the coolest thing was one of their sets of stairs, which are musical. Each one you jump on makes a different noise and lights up. On the hour, they do a show and ‘dong’ the respective number of times. They worked better than they look here.

After that we headed to Kabuki-cho, where the old Kabuki theatre is. It was a decent looking building, but hard to see as you can’t go in without a ticket (expensive and, from what I’ve heard, dull dull dull) and there is a busy road in front of it. But the art-work was beautiful, so I got close-ups of them.




Moving swiftly on, we entered the future! Underground plazas, Matrix-style buildings, escalators built into walls (look hard), and an unmanned monorail speeding behind open-air televisions. On top of that, outdoor escalators! How does that work?




And all that, just for a photocopier!

On the whole, a decent-ish day but nowhere near as great as Hama Rikyu/Asakusa the day before.