Day 10 - Eat, Shop, Eat, Shop... (VIDEO!!!)

Today was pretty relaxed, and we didn’t have many new ideas as to where to go, so we headed over to Ikebukoro Station to check out the shops around there.
There was a huge HMV
And another Tokyu Hands which I love.
First we picked a place to have lunch – Tamago No Watashi – which was a restaurant that specialized in eggs, namely Japanese rice omelets.
We had:
Soup
Rice Omelet with Beef & Vegetables with Demi-glace Sauce
Rice Omelet with Beef and Cheese Sauce
Then we walked by Namjatown which was a place where you pay 500 yen to get in and you can buy all kinds of foods there. There are probably like 30 different kinds of ice-cream and 50 kinds of gyozas.
We were going to go a while after lunch, but we later on changed our minds.
We looked around at Mitsukoshi
Went to a Japanese Paper Specialty Store
And on our way back at the Shinjuku Station on a weekend, here’s a video of the crowdedness at NON rush hour time:

And the people on the train
Then we went to Harajuku to shop a bit more for the last time, and we had desert at Sembikaya, the waffle place I visited the last time I was here.
This time we tried:
Strawberry Shortcake
Strawberry Waffle
It was delicious! Then we went to Shibuya to have ramen
We had:
Cha Siu Ramen
And Gyoza!
It was very tasty!!!
And this is the result of part of my shopping as of right now.

Day 9 - Toyota & Hotpot (now with VIDEO!)

Today we decided to go to Odaiba, the man-made island in Tokyo.
To get there we took:
Shibuya Station -> Tokyo Metro Ginza Line -> Shimbashi Station -> Yurikamome Line -> Daiba Station
On the Yurikamome Line, it was a fully automated bus-train hybrid system. It was like a train because it went on tracks, but it had wheels and tires like a bus.
We made sure we were able to sit in the front of the train so we can have a very cool view during the whole ride.
We crossed the Rainbow Bridge on our way there which was constructed just for the island. Here's a video of the train crossing the bridge:

At the Daiba Station, there was a complex called Aqua City where people went shopping at and that was where we had lunch.
Next to it was the headquarters of Fuji TV Station.
We decided to have something American, and were surprised that they actually had a Sizzler there…
So I ordered the Salad Bar
And Australian Olive Beef – which had a little too much pepper on it…
Afterwards we walked around the outside of the complex, and there was a miniature Statue of Liberty there.
When we were done, we took the train to the Aomi Station where the Toyota City Showcase was. It was a huge complex displaying all of the current offerings from Toyota.
You could even make advanced reservations to test-drive any vehicle you want.
They had quite a few cars there including:
The NEW Toyota Crown Athlete
At the Lexus stand was the IS-F
Electric Cars
Concept Cars
The bB
Rumion which is probably the xB in the US
Rush which looks like a chopped off RAV4
The NEW Land Cruiser
Supra
Blade which sort of looks like the new Matrix
Hybrid Wonderland which had the:
Estima Hybrid
Harrier Hybrid (Lexus RX400h)
Alphard Hybrid
The FCHV-4
Fine-X Concept Car
Afterwards we walked over to the Toyota Design Showcase and passed by a Ferris wheel.
Went shopping at Harajuku in between, and…
At night we went to “Little Fat Lamb” in Shibuya which was an international Hot Pot Chain.
We ordered a large non-spicy soup base which had all kinds of Chinese herbs, ginseng, garlic, ginger, etc.
And had Lamb
Beef
Shrimp & Pork Balls
Potato
Cabbage & Tofu
Orange Juice
Scallop
Noodles
At the end, we all enjoyed ourselves very much and loved the soup at the end which had flavors of everything we cooked in it! Yummy!