TNCIS Japan Study Abroad: Trip Around Tokyo with Student Partners

Saturday, May 24, 2014

Trip Around Tokyo with Student Partners

Today in Japan I was going to be meeting up with my student partners. Dai and Go have planned for us to visit the Sky Tree which is one of the tallest building in Tokyo and the Gundam wing statue since I like anime. The trip started with me fining my way to Asakusabashi station at 11 am and it was difficult to find. I arrived there shortly after 11am and Dai was there waiting on me but Go wasn't there. Dai told me that Go was going to meet us at the Sky Tree so him and I walked towards the train line to head to our destination.

As we arrived at the Sky Tree; inside we passed by many dessert restaurants. Dai decided to stop by one of them and buy me a dessert that is popular in Japan. The dessert was similar to a snow cone but with a scoop of ice cream and was in a bowl not a cone. Dai said that when it's hot outside like it was this is what Japanese eat and even at the beach. I selected strawberry and to my surprise I liked it better than the snow cone because as the ice melted the strawberry syrup was at the bottom so it was like juice. While we were eating Go happen to arrive and we were on our way to go into the sky tree. We got our tickets for the second highest level you could go and were on our way. Once up in the Sky Tree you could see all of Tokyo. Tokyo was bigger than what I thought and seemed to stretch all the way to the ocean. After the visit at Sky Tree we headed to the popular (for those that watch anime) Gundam Wing statue. The statue was big and very nice and it actually had smoke coming out of it. It was definitely something worth seeing and I appreciate Dai and Go taking me to see it. It was a good experience seeing something as a kid I grew up watching.