Todoroki Valley and Cirque du Soleil

On a hot July day, we went on an adventure to a place we had read about as being one of those ‘refuges’ from the city bustle. It was exactly that. You come from a small station and go down a cute staircase and suddenly you’re in a little river path with no city in sight. It’s great. About a 15 minute walk if you just go straight through, but we had some fun exploring the little shrines hidden here and there too so we spent a good 2 hours just enjoying the novel scenery.

Down we go!

First impressions

Looking uo you could almost believe you’re not in the city

Snake!

Water running down the wall; pretty darn cool

Post excursion refuel

A couple of days later we were back to the concrete jungle, but still surrounded by water; on Odaiba again 🙂 It was time for Ovo, the Cirque du Soleil show we’d been to buy tickets for a little while before. The show was just incredible. I have dabbled in circus a lot and watched an awful lot of stuff, so I went in thinking I’d love it but I wasn’t expecting to be surprised, let alone have my mind blown. But there really is nothing like a live Cirque show. It was truly incredible. And I got to go with Mitch, which made it even better. I remember every now and again that I am really glad we got to spend the summer together.

Really atmospheric Ferris wheel.

Odaiba has some very cool scenery

Outside ready for the show

We found a very retro arcade!

Giant pop up pirate

We had Mexican food in the rain 🙂

I’ll leave this one with a bonus picture of a Michael party we had to start off July; three of them in one room was pretty fun!

Meerkats and Odaiba

On the 14th of June, we had a whole day trip to Odaiba, and it was magnificent! We started in Asakusa, checking out the view of the Sky Tree, playing around in a random bowl of greenry art installation thingy, and jumping on a boat to the island. Definitely the best way to get to Odaiba is by boat.

Asakusa atmosphere!

Mitch popping up in the big green bowl

Bowl selfie

It felt like a different world in there

Kinda tellytubbie-ish

Window to the city

It looks pretty from the outside too!

It’s massive!

We got on a boat just like that one!

Sky tree reflected in the beer building

Pretty river feelings

My love

Random humans plus river scenery.

A pirate ship!

Selfie 🙂

The first thing we did was check out the beach area, as there was actually a little bit of sand and sea to play in which was really nice. And then on our way to the shops there was a couple walking their meerkat…. And as if a pet meerkat wasn’t cool enough, it was dressed as a fairy 😀 Definitely one of the coolest animals I have held.

So city, but so coasty.

Nice to get out toes out

Grass! Very rare for Japan.

Mitch being all cool.

One of the best moments of my year abroad!

Yes, fairy meerkat!

The main goal of the day was actually to buy tickets for Cirque Du Soleil’s Ovo, which we had noticed was playing there last time we went. Once we got the tickets we spent the rest of the day enjoying the museum and the random pretty sights around the island. The Ferris wheel was really pretty!

Ovo tickets!

Mitch playing with the weird seal

This interactive display at the museum came highly recommended and it was definitely fun! you get your own little circle monster thing and you wonder around doing activities to make it more monstery

Lunch!

I bought this because it is the cutest yellow thing I have ever seen.

Beautiful scenery

Arcade time!

Love my purikura

Daw

The inside of the shoppping mall gets all roman all of a sudden and it’s quite fun really

Freaking love Baskin & Robins

See, pretty rainbow Ferris wheel and the moon 🙂

Gotta love Odaiba. Always something new to find!

And here I leave you with a picture or two of a couple days later when Bekah and I met up with our old housemate, Sakiko. It was really lovely to see her ^.^