Tokyo Tower

Sunday's jaunt began with a huge bowl of noodles. Alice was chuffed that the noodles were also quite large and easy to eat. You could order one and a half or two times the noodles at no extra cost. The regular size was plenty.

We then went to see Tokyo Tower. It's kind of like the Eiffel Tower, except it's shorter and bright red. Also, you have to queue to buy a ticket to the regular observation deck, then queue to get in the lift, then queue to buy another ticket to go to the special observation deck, then queue to get on that lift. Oh, and you have to queue to go down in the lift but it only takes you to the fourth floor and then you have to walk down ten flights of stairs. I almost thought I was going to miss my stair quota because we didn't take the subway. I shouldn't have worried.

It does have a great view, and you get a little brochure telling you what you can see with an annotated panoramic photo. They even have some touch screen views which will give you a little info on each building you press. We spotted lots of weird things which we couldn't identify, such as this building.

It looks like a stadium or theatre or maybe an Imperial Destroyer.

I've been trying to surreptitiously shoot some clothes with interesting slogans on them. Luckily queues are the perfect place to catch people standing still with their backs turned.

Actually the best thing at Tokyo Tower, apart from the pink phallic mascot, was the glass floor which allows you to look straight down. It's pretty scary even though it's only about a metre long. We wondered if Alice would be scared or if fear of heights was a learned response.

She wasn't scared at all.

We stopped off at the fun park on the way down the stairs and Alice raced into a giant Pikachu thing and wouldn't come out.

We were just happy that we didn't have to chase her around for a while. I'm considering getting one shipped from Japan.