Odaiba! お台場！I'm coming Amuro!

The last adventure I will have in Japan! Odaiba! On July 28th, I went to an artificial man-made island called Odaiba. Odaiba is in Tokyo and famous for being for its many attractions. I went to Odaiba with my brother, my brother's friend, and my uncle. My mom and sisters went to Disney Land. Check it out!

The train ticket to go to Odaiba. It was sky blue, I've never seen a train ticket that color. Train tickets are usually brown.

When we reached Odaiba, the first thing we did was go see the 1/1 scale Gundam robot. Actually the day before I went there, I was researching about Gundam by watching the first original series called Mobile Suit Gundam. This Gundam robot statue was built to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Gundam. Apparently on the opening of the statue, the creator of Gundam and other famous showed up to introduce this robot. This statue will stand for only the summer break and will be torn down. It truly is a once in a life time experience! Look at the pictures of this awesome robot!

Can you see Gundam behind the trees. If only it would actually walk or fly...

From behind. The boosters are awesome!

Getting closer...

... And closer...

BAM! Earth Federation RX-87 Gundam! 18 meters tall! Geek-meter to the MAX!!!

Do you think I will make an awesome pilot for Gundam? Gotta work on my poses like in the anime series.

After watching this Gundam statue, I visited most of the popular attractions in Odaiba!

Rainbow Bridge!

Fuji Television Building. Where most of the comedy television shows are broadcasted. Cool design for a building.

Replica of Statue of Liberty. It is VERY tiny compared to the real one in New York.

Joypolis, a game center! This place was soo huge! Famous American actors came here and there is so much to do!

Small China Town upstairs... a bit blurry...

The pass to get inside Joypolis. Shiny!

The coolest racing video game ever! It is a video game made for the famous racing anime series called Initial D. Check out the video, the whole car moves as you turn! Sorry, sound doesn't work :(

The blue racing car I drove in. They have seat belts you have to put on!

Me inside the car.

Here is an Olympic video game where you run, jump hurdles, and other activites! This video is 100 meter dash.

Do you know that awesome arcade game where you kill zombies called House of the Dead? Well, here is a video game specially made for House of the Dead 4! It was a lot of fun! :D

When you enter the booth, you sit in a seat and you are strapped in. You hold your gun and shoot like the normal arcade game. But what's "special" about it is that there are two screens! One in front of you and one behind you. As enemies pop up behind you, the seat you are in rotates really fast to the screen behind you. Then you keep shooting and as the character moves his head front and backwards, so fun!!!

Famous people comes here to Joypolis so there are autographs on the walls. Here is Michael Jackson's back in 1996. Will you become famous enough to sign the walls of Joypolis?

Shonen Jump store and gallery.

WANTED: Texas Burger. The ingredients to make the burger sounds like a burger from Texas except for the size :P

A Japanese traditional game center. Me sitting on the first Kamen Rider! :D

After walking about and playing games for many many hours, it finally became 6:30pm. At 7 o'clock, there will be a night show at the Gundam statue. So we left to go there...

Gundam statue at night. The light it up!

Another angle.

Check out the night show! The head moves around, lots are shot from its eyes and body, and there is a mist/smoke effect that makes it looks like Gundam is ready to fly! Sorry that the sound doesn't work but I'm sure there are plenty of videos on YouTube to make up for it.

After the night show. I'm glad that I came to Odaiba!

Fuji Television Building at night.

For dinner, we ate at a Chinese restaurant. Seriously, the best Chinese food I have ever had! This is a hot and sour soup ramen noodle dish with fried rice with pork pop-stickers. So good! :D