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Don't be a chicken, you'll upset the rabbits Our adventures through Japan, Spain, France, Germany, Austria & America.

Day 1 - Ueno, Akihabara & Shibuya

JAPAN | Friday, 2 May 2014 | Views [620]

Got to Japan at 6am, and took a train to Ueno to find our accommodation. We found a hot coffee in a can out of a vending machine called 'fire' it's the best! We later found that you need a few these per day just to get through Tokyo.




Second coffee was the BIG COFFEE.



As we made our way to our accommodation we almost got ridden over by many bicycles which just float around anywhere they want. They don't have to wear helmets or abide by any rules it seems.

The lifts in Japan are huge, here is the one in our accommodation.

Hit the road to Akihabara to search for Robots and meet up with Yoshie. We saw lots of electronics, weird maid cafes and robots, huge tablets Big tablet

and water proof TVs 

Waterproof TV

as Yoshie says Japanese people like to watch TV in the hot tub.

I was on a mission find this Robot store that I was told about and everyone took the challenge with me. I had some instructions which were pretty good but when you are presented with so many options it's very hard to find your way around under the bright lights of Tokyo. We found the second Robot store first called vrobot. This was a good place for parts and had some great robots such as the Gripper arm robot Robot Arm.

The coveted first robot store was called the TSUKUMO, but so were lot of other stores. We found it and you had to go out the back and up two flights of stairs.

Tsukumo robot store

They had a two legged robot there which Yoshie eagerly asked the shop keeper if I could have a go and he handed over the remote so we could move Mr Roboto around: bow, do the splits and headstands, it's definitely a highlight of my trip so far. The next level up in the building had EDIUS Pro software and lots of cameras, so Mark you might know where this place is.

We found a sign which sums up the attitude on the trains and is what we based the title for our blog on.

Chickens

After this we travelled over to a market and then headed back for a beer before going out for dinner.

Beer

For dinner we went to Shibuya to catch up with Amber's mates Alec (programming of finance software) & Erin (editor) so we had a lot in common. We saw the intersection which has 1000's of people cross every minute and we did it and are still alive.

Intersection

After hitting a trendy bar for a few craft beers we had to leave/run to the last train. Last trains in Tokyo are midnight, we just made it to ours 

Last Train

What a day!

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