Tokyo trip 2008 - Day 2

The next day started with us having breakfast at Excelsior Cafe. We ordered a crepe mille-feuille, a toasted sandwich with cheese, ham/bacon & a half-cooked egg that oozed, French toast with cheese and ham, cafe latte & royal milk tea. After which, we went on to Venus Fort at Odaiba.

The decor of Venus Fort is like The Venetian in Las Vegas, where Venice was re-created here. It's of course not as opulent or huge, but it allowed me to reminiscence about Venice. There was also a nice fountain that later had a "snow" show. There was also a "garage" museum where vintage & fast cars were on display and a small casino area.

After shopping around, where I bought my Yoshii Mami bag,

we went to sit the ferris wheel which was very pretty with all the cabins in candy colours. Fortunately, we weren't assigned the totally see-through cabins or else I think I'll just "freeze" for the whole ride, which was just 15 minutes. The sun was setting when we took it. We could also see the Rainbow Bridge & Tokyo Tower from the ferris wheel. When we reached the top, there was a slight swaying due to winds and as we tried to shift around to take photos, we could feel the cabin tilting!

On the way back, we happened to notice some Christmas decorations at Shimbashi, so we spent some time there taking photos.

Since it was still early, we headed to Roppongi.

We just walked around and entered MidTown, which was where luxury brands of which I never heard of had their boutiques.

Of course, we couldn't afford any of the things, so we just walked through the building & moved on to Roppongi Hills. Along the way, there were some nice decorations and a Tokyo Tower that wasn't red appeared. As it was quite windy, this is the best shot I have of it. There were helicopters flying around it, which reminded me of King Kong somehow.

It was a bad idea, Roppongi Hills. V, was thinking of buying the LV bag she had been eyeing since her last trip and on entering the boutique, she was pissed off by 1 of the salesgirl there. We went to the counter where the bag she wanted was located and as there were 2 sets of customers and only 2 salespersons, we stood there waiting for our turn, thinking that probably, they could only attend to 1 customer at a time as part of some service policy. To our horror, this salesgirl, while waiting for the customer she was handling to gloss over which bag to get, glanced towards us, or rather, at my friend's bag. Ok, my friend had decided to carry a cheap bag this trip (i.e. not branded) rather than her usual branded stuff, so the salesgirl, gave it a look, and quickly turned back to her customer, pretending not to have seen us. It was like she scoffed at us. We were aghast and V decided to walk out of the shop without buying the bag (which she later purchased at another outlet). She said that this is one of the rare times that she was treated like this in Japan. That sort of spoiled our mood for the rest of the night. We then decided to go find a place for eating.

We came upon this place and looking that the menu had yakitori (which V liked) and an English menu, we entered. Had to take off our shoes though. Had some yakitori, tea rice, tofu and umeshu, which was quite nice. It was quite satisfying and reasonably priced.

That was all for the night and we went back to the hotel.