Park Hyatt

Yes, that Park Hyatt.


Jimm and I started the day at Asakusa for temple viewing. It is a large, nice temple with a long line of shops leading up to it. Very traditional, I guess. But the real temple viewing is gonna be in Kyoto. Which happens next week.






After that it was on to the city of the future: Odaiba. This place has it all man, monorails, science museums, cafes that know your order BEFORE YOU WALK IN. Okay, that last one was a lie. This island was the Japanese government's attempt at creating a future city with the above mentioned fruit. It is seen as a very large version of our own millenium park. Its not done yet, its had billions of dollars in overruns and, well, its just really dorky. Which is fine by me. I hope the future is dorkier then the present. It will only make me far more of the archtype for man.


After a gorgeous nighttime ride on the monorail over the rainbow bridge, we headed over to the Park Hyatt's New York Grill Bar. It is the bar from the movie Lost in Translation. Although expensive to get in, and an even pricier whisky, it was worth it to do a purely touristy thing. Oh, and there was good live jazz which always makes the 20 dollar single neat 17 year Hibiki whisky go down smoother. Heh, I am a connisuer of dork and expensive booze, I think that's a damn good combo.

Also, every time there is a new post, there will be new pictures. I should probably start organising them.

EDIT: organization has begun.