TeamLab Planets

teamLab Planets

I went out for my early morning espresso doppio at Ily, but this time I noticed there was a TV with a camera which reads your temperature as you walk in. Not sure if anyone is monitoring this or it's supposed to be self regulating but it was a bit of an odd thing to have in a shopping centre.

Big brother temp check

We caught the subway out to the teamLab Planets exhibition at Toyosu. We had also been to this one before but there was a new exhibit called Garden. The carp pond is still probably my favourite part of this, there's milky water that you walk around in and the fish interact with people walking around by swimming away or diving deeper. 

 

 

In the hanging flower exhibit they gave instruction to not crawl and also not to touch the flowers, then when we went in the flowers were lowered so that the only way to get in was to crawl. It was very confusing. Anyway everyone crawled in anyway. I also really liked the moss room, it smelt super earthy.

The whole thing took a bit over an hour to see everything as you're more on a course instead of getting lost like the previous one we went to. After getting out we went to this really tiny gift shop and I am not sure what happened outside once we went in (we were the only ones in there) but a group of about 10 Canadians decided they wanted to come in too. We squeezed our way out and went back to the train station to Ginza.

Please exit through the worlds smallest gift shop

We did some shopping at the Ginza Uniqlo as its the flagship store. Then for lunch I looked up udon places in Ginza as Heidi said she wanted to try some on the holiday. Turns out I had to fall on that grenade and get the massive bowl of udon complete with the massive spoon and hilarious yet practical bibs. I am a big fan of eating from bowls of things so big you could fit your head in there.

We also got some tempura vegetables which Willow had a couple of for a 100 yen challenge. Another thing was the pickled cucumber in a sauce. I am totally getting into the cucumber salad recipes back in Sydney. We've had some format of cucumber salad with most meals out and they're delicious which probably means it's the least healthy way to eat cucumbers.

After lunching we walked to the train station and the girls went back to the hotel and I went to Kappabashi. Kappabashi has a street that's lined with kitchen supply stores. If I was let loose there I could probably fill a shipping container with all the stuff I'd like to purchase but I had a goal of getting a couple of sharpening stones and a knife. I went to Kamata knife store where 2 of my other Japanese knives are from. This time I got a santoku which is a Japanese style chefs knife.

May thy knife chip and shatter

Chilled out for a while in the hotel before dinner at Roppongi, back to our favourite place with the tiger for dinner for a change.