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From Ginza to Tokyo Dome City

We started the day by going to Ginza to eat fried oysters (and also scallops, salmon and a shrimp) at Sanshūya, as we has last year around the same time. It was all delicious! They say that oysters are best in months that end in "R".

Then, without much of a fixed plan, we walked nearby the Imperial Palace which had some autumn yellow colors, probably because of the large amount of Tokyo's symbolic ginkgo trees. It was quite cloudy but it only rained a little. Can you spot the two birds magically standing on the water?

After walking some more, we ended up in Suidōbashi. There is located Tokyo Dome City, which contains an amusement park. We spontaneously bought discounted ride tickets at a ticket shop and rode the huge Thunder Dolphin roller-coaster and also an indoor roller-coaster called GeoPanic.

I've been on many roller-coasters before, and Thunder Dolphin was surely one of the scariest! It's 80m tall, 1.1km long and goes to speeds up to 130km/h. While going around the amusement park twice, it dives into a hole in a wall and even through the ferris wheel! That hole looks much smaller when you're coming at it at a crazy speed.

The Tokyo Dome City attraction park doesn't have any entrance fee, you pay only for what you ride. This makes it possible to go in freely, and do even just one ride, or to go with people who don't feel like doing rides. Great concept!

Then we walked some more to Kagurazaka, for a total of over 8.4km (Gmaps pedometer), not counting all the walking inside the amusement park.

Larger photos and a few more at Flickr

By the way, the last two photos above were taken with a GorillaPod, which I had got after reading about Brad's at Roy's. It was about the first time I had a chance to use it and it proved to be very useful! Its power is all in its light weight and compactness.

Posted on November 4, 2006 at 23:48 | Tweet |

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