Visited Odaiba last week. It’s an artificial island south of Tokyo, with artificial beach (hmm sounds like Sentosa island haha) and an abundance of weird architechture that was born out of the excesses of the 80s economy (and maybe too high a dosage of sci-fi movies too).
Au Yong was actually there for some tech-geek exhibition for his work purposes blabla zzz zzz. So I tagged along and was left to wander in a fake Venician town for FOUR hours. eecks.
VenusFort, as the name might already suggests, is a shopping place, for women. With of course a special setting — computer-generated skies that changes from dusk till dawn (looks quite real actually), set in stores lined along a fake Venician street, complete with fake cobbles. But it’s kinda cool actually. 
I got conned to pay 300yen for an itsy-bitsy piece of strawberry tart at a cafe. Sigh. But it smelt so good it was hard to just walk away from the cafe.
Also, I bought a pair of red shoes!! RED! whee…
Anyway, check out the ferris wheel! It’s huge, and it was the largest in the world, until the London Eye came along and burst their bubble.
The view was fantastic up there. Could see the city skyline all the way, Tokyo Tower and everything. Very very cool. Plus, from the outside, the wheel changes colour. Sorta like the Rainbow Bridge that connects the island to the city.
I like this one. Though the 16-minute ride seemed a little too short. But it was fun. It’s been ages since I’ve been on a ferris wheel. 
July 4th, 2006 at 6:17 pm
GOSH …tse wei…look very very fun!!
Enjoy girl =)
July 5th, 2006 at 12:12 am
wow, cool…. i’ve only been on a ferris wheel once, when there was that carnival in B.M with only light bulbs lining it.
tokyo will be a very nice place to be if only you have unlimited income. ^_-