Tokyo View

Right next to our apartment in Roppongi Hills is the Tokyo View, an art gallery, viewing platform and aquarium all rolled into one. We kept putting off going there but on a cloudy day we decided we had nothing better to do.

The viewing platform is actually better than Tokyo Tower's because it isn't anywhere near as crowded and you don't have to line up very long to go in. Of course you still have to line up, because it's in Japan. They have various cafes and bars too, so you can sit with your drink against the glass and gaze out on Tokyo.

The aquarium was less about education and more about building really weird fishtanks than most I've been to. They had a lot of fluorescent fish and lights, and most of it was in a pitch black room which was difficult to drive a stroller around. They had some furniture which contained fish tanks, like a couch and coffee table. They also had a large fountain-like tank in the middle. I quite liked the shallow open air tank at the entrance. It gave some good reflections of the view.

I suck as a photographer, though, so I didn't get any good shots of these reflections.

The Mori art gallery had a long and boring exhibition about Le Corbusier, some French architect who seemed a little dated. Alice got really unhappy at about this time so maybe I'm judging it too harshly on the whirlwind circuit we made. Oh well, at least it's in character.