As it is always the morning in Iidabashi was refreshing .We had French toast with tomato ketchup and mayonnaise sauce alongside with a glass of cold coffee for breakfast which was prepared in the hostel by our-self.
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| Morning View |
Shortly after that we left for Waseda University as we had a special lecture on Global Food security Perspectives. This lecture was given to us by Masahiko Gemma who is the professor & director of Social Science department. Since the lecture ended in the afternoon, Vasant sir, me and Ishan got on streets hunting for an Indian hotel and we definitely found one near by the university who's owner was a Nepali citizen. The taste of the food was just amazing, it felt really good to have some Indian food after a long time. The size of the naan was Five times of which that is available in India. The dish was really simple but it was a very heavy one for us. We did our rehearsal for India day for an hour or so and proceeded to our hostel.Since evening time was free for us, we decided to roam around a bit but did not know where to go! So myself ,Vasant Sir and Ishan boarded a metro train for Tokyo central. Since we did not know where we were going we got down at a random station. from where we could see Tokyo Tower lit up in bright Yellowish light, it even illuminated some part of the sky which looked like as if it was twilight. We decided to take a parallel road towards Tokyo tower thinking of exploring the inner side of that place.
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| Walking parallel to Tokyo Tower |
We walked for about 15-20 minutes and noticed a building mentioned World trade center and Observatory. we decided pop on the top floor of it to get a good view but unfortunately it required an entry fee which was quite high and we were disappointed by it . we started searching for tallest building nearby so we could have a look from above.. and we did find one but getting inside was not an easy job as we had thought. Only the residents of that building had excess to it.. so we could not get inside..
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| The Building. |
We did request 2-3 residents of that building to take us to the top floor but their natural instincts gave a negative reply. After waiting for about 10-15 mins we approached a young guy maybe in his early thirties with the same request, luckily he let us in. The interior of the building looked like it was owned by emperor of Japan. To describe the building in short, it had 56 floors, maybe the second tallest building in Japan, The entrance of the building had 3 layers/barriers of security.
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| The view from 44th floor |
All the rooms in this building were given on rent with each room costing approximately 18000 USD per month up to the 44th floor and the remaining ones with the price was 35000 USD!!! pretty expensive na?? each door was made of Stainless steel and had a bio-metric (finger print) lock. The guy who was working for Microsoft took us in the lift to the top floor and we reached in like 5 seconds.
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| The View |
The view from above was awesome there are no words to describe the view.. we were literally above the height of Tokyo tower, each and every building could be seen from that height, even sky tree. We had to move out quickly since no outsiders other than residents were allowed inside the building. For Dinner we tried a new dish called curry coco rice which was really good and then took the express train back to hostel. It was one of the best experiences we had in Tokyo.
-Omkar V. Shetker
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