D26 Odaiba: Legoland

Being a huge ex-lego fan (currently a megabloks fan), Jon would be so disappointed if we did not make it to Legoland. So in our busy schedule in Odaiba, it was one of the priorities. Legoland is inside the Decks complex. We took a while to find it's entrance on 4th floor. The actual center is located on the 6th and 7th floor of the Decks.

Finally at the entrance

After getting on a couple of ride, we finally arrived at the Lego miniature Tokyo. Its pretty awesome in here. Lights changes colour to indicate time of the day. Some of the vehicles, boats and blimp can actually move! Some workers on the street doing their drilling and road repair. Firetrucks roaming around. Just like Tokyo!

Lego Rainbow bridge in Day time!

Mini Sky Tree

Fuji TV station

Rainbow bridge at night

Tokyo tower

Streets in Ginza

Tokyo Tower

Shibuya crossing

In legoland, there is also a section that you can design and build your own vehicles. They even provided a few race tracks. So we decided to test our skills.

My 4 wheeler and Jon's 3 wheeler

My 4 wheeler was excellent in speed. In contrast, Jon's 3 wheeler had break on constant. So winner obviously was me. Mine proved to be super durable; though being chucked around by young kids, it remained in one piece.

Jon's 3 wheeler going down hill slowly.

How could Jon leave Lego land without building something?? Though it got pushed over and broke into a few piece after we went for a short 4D lego movie.

Mega Tree

D 26 Tokyo - Odaiba

I have always been looking forward to visit Odaiba. So we got up nice and early as we had many places to visit at Odaiba. We purchased a day ticket for the Yurikamome Train. The ride itself was pretty awesome, as its elevated track passed Shiodome and Shimbashi area before travelling onto the Rainbow bridge.

The Rainbow bridge from Yurikamome Train

We got off near Tokyo Big Sight, planning to visit Panasonic showroom. Unfortunately it was closed as every Monday. But I guess that freed up our itinerary a little bit.

Tokyo Big Sight

Panasonic Showroom; huge but closed

We backtracked a little bit by Yurikamome to Pallet Town. We spent a good while at Toyota showroom. Tried a couple racing games.

A electric and manual power "quadcycle"

Also in Pallet town was the Venus Port. Part of the ceiling was made to look like sky. It was pretty cool to look at and it even changed amount of light to mimic sunrise and sunset.

We chose to walk between Palette Town to Diver city where a life size Gundam was stationed permanently. There were performances every half an hour or so. A short story in which Gundam emitted smoke and moved its head. 

Passing Fuji TV building

Miraikan was a science museum focused environment, energy and new technology related to above. It was fascinating but we only had about 1 hour or so before the closing time. There was a ball-shaped TV that could represent climate change on earth. We also saw a real robot. Apparently it could be ordered to be customised including different types of weapons and shields. From the video footage, the robot was controlled by a person sitting in the trunk part of the robot and able to manipulate fingers precisely.

TV!

Sunset over harbour

Rainbow bridge

Of course, before we left Odaiba, we had to say bye to Gundam. The night show was much longer and awesome too!