Monday, May 7, 2007

It's Tuesday, and I'm posting for yesterday. We went into downtown Tokyo. Roppongi Hills tower is accross from Mr. Matsueda's office and one of the most hightech and tallest buildings in Tokyo. If you click on the link above you'll get the 411. We got to see the "Spiderman III" exibit while there too. The parking structure is just incredable. One pulls in like any other parking but you don't pass any cars as you pull up to the attendents in a small car sized room. You get out and grab your stuff, the attendents then check the condition of your car and then as you step behind the sliding glass, your car is moved quickly along the flat track into another room behind a moveable door. The attendents then program instructions and your car disappears and a ticket appears. To get your car later, you simply insert the ticket and await your car to appear behind the glass. The light turns green and you enter and leave. Quite amazing and wonderful. Those Japanese. I've capture video of the car parking to include at a later date. Speaking of car parking, at the home of Katsu, his under ground parking roboticaly shifts cars up and down back and forth, left and right to get the most cars in to a space. They're literally on top of each other.



Anyway were headed back into the city for more fun today. I'm going to explore the larges stationary store for one of my addictions: "Cool pens". Then it's off for some "Yakitori" for lunch and then meet Taka for whatever comes next. Oh, the picture above is at the oberservation deck of the Tower, and in the back you can see Tokyo Tower. Looking out all you see is densely pack city with a few patches of green.



That's it for now.

1 comment:

Unknown said...

Wow! That's pretty cool. If we had one of those out here in LA, you'd put your car in, get a ticket, put your ticket back in and your car would return sans hubcaps and with the gas siphoned.