Tokyo night view

We also took the elevator up to the 60th floor, to see the night view. We got a cheaper price by showing our planetarium and aquarium tickets too. The elevator that takes you up is surprisingly fast, and surprisingly detailed in telling you how fast it is moving. 600 meters per minute sounds more impressive than 36 km per hour, though.

We walked around and looked at the Tokyo night view. You could see for instance the Tokyo Tower and the new Tokyo Sky Tree. On a good day you can see Mount Fuji, but it was a bit too cloudy/foggy/dark when we were there.

Tokyo Sky Tree in the very far distance

Tokyo Tower in the far distance

You could also borrow Halloween props and take photos in some Halloween gate. So I did that.

Funnily shaped food

In the Sunshine City aquarium they have a cafe. They were closing when I passed by, but I noticed that they had a menu with funnily shaped food, so I asked if they would allow me in for just a minute to buy some stuff. They kindly did.

They had caramel and coconut latte drinks that came with fish drawings, but I don't like coffee so I did not order that. At lunch they also serve curry with the rice shaped like fish or penguins, but it was too late to order food like that.

I ordered nikuman (steamed bread with meat) and anman (steamed bread with sweet beans) shaped like a penguin and an octopus. The one with meat was pretty good, though the white parts were a bit dry. The octopus had too much sweet beans, which makes your mouth go really really dry and is a bit boring to eat. The octopus arms were made from mochi, sweat and very gooey rice, which was a pleasant surprise.

Sunshine city planetarium and aquarium

Towards evening we left the Maid Cafe and split the group. Some people went to an arcade hall to try all kinds of dancing and shooting games or whatnot. The rest of us went to Sunshine City, a building so big it is called a city. It has 60 floors in the higher parts and contain all kinds of things. Hotels and shopping, restaurants and offices, an aquarium, a planetarium, an observation deck, and much more.

We stopped by the planetarium, where we got to see some very beautiful star maps and movie clips shown in a very wide format. We bought the double feature tickets that also allowed us in to the aquarium nextdoor. The aquarium was quite nice, though some of the animals that were outside (on the roof) were in sleep mode since we got there so late.

Out on the roof it was also extremely windy. And a bit cold. I was surprised that the penguins did not fly away (as in thrown away by the strong winds; I am aware that penguins do not fly despite being birds).

A lemur sleeping with some armadillos

Baby animal that kept falling down and trying to climb back up only to fall down again.

Sleepy penguins

Big fish

Pelicans