The last day I dedicated it to tourism in Tokyo. From Eono Park, where the National Museum and the zoo are located, I could see the Skytree tower (the tallest tower in the world) at the far distance, so I decided to walk for a few hours through Tokyo in that direction. Lucky me, halfway there I found the Senso-ji, a large Buddhist temple and the oldest in Tokyo. And very near the temple a little shop in a corner with this canvas:
(Have we discussed this drawing before?) It shows several variety performers including a koma artist. I would have liked to see such a show. I missed the one the Nagoya museum did at the first floor stage. But I probably would not have wanted to see the show of the "flatulence artist"
. Anyway, this shop sold "
noren" which are curtains that go on doors or between rooms, decorated in kanji lettering or with images, that are supposed to give good luck. I entered the shop and asked if they had any noren with koma drawings and they said no, and that the one outside was not for sale. I did go to another noren shop and they had one with a tiny koma on the edge, but it was too expensive for the size of the koma. By the way, at the entrance of Fujita's home there were some norens with komas but I did not take any photos inside his house.
One thing tourist guides say you should do in Akihabara is to go to a
Maid Cafe. They were all around the location of the contest and the girls in maid costumes were all the time handing out flyers. I went to one but I did not understand the point of it and I wouldn't recommend it. But it was a good spintop photo opportunity (a polaroid photo was included in the admission):
Something I missed that I would have wanted to attend was a tour of a ball bearing factory that Taka organized as I was still in Nagoya. But Rob did go and can describe it.
I am generally shy about playing at airports, but I arrived quite early to my gate in Narita so I took courage and freestyled a bit before Rob arrived.