Bi-Icicle: After visiting the temple we got back on the circuit bus and went to Fuji TV1(in Japanese "Fuji-Teribi") studios which was built on some reclaimed land across the rainbow bridge from Tokyo. The area is known as Odaiba. We had a look around the studio, but we were not allowed to take any photos. Then we went up stairs to the lookout room, but the snow was coming down too thick to take any photos!2
Walking back from the Fuji TV studios I got covered in snow, an umbrella (called "kasa" in Japanese) is useless when it is snowing! At the bus stop we meet an elderly couple and I said to them "watashi wa yukidaruma" (I am a snowman!) and got a laugh. At the bus stop I saw the above bicycle and though that it would be pretty cold riding a bike in the snow, especially since the seat was already covered in snow.
We decided that we would stay on the bus and not do any more sight seeing, as it was getting too cold. At the train station we went and collected our suitcases from the coin lockers and caught the commuter train to Kanda. At Kanda station there was a big map of the surrounding area, we found the hotel on the map then Ritsuko led me in the wrong direction, but did trust that I knew how to read Japanese maps. After realising we had gone the wrong direction we walked back (remember it was snowing very heavily, not fun) to Kanda train station and went the way I thought we should and found the Hotel in very little time. (Two trips later however I got us very lost in Osaka so I am not always right with directions)
We went to diner at a restaurant where most of the other customers there were gaijin expats. The restaurant was themed on classy America bar (ie with a Grand Piano and big glass windows looking out on the view of city). The restaurant served a very ordinary Japanese interpretation of western food, dinner sets were around 2000yen ($25AUD) per person with a glass beer, well at least the beer was good.
