Back on the Yamanote line 3 years after our song. Now you keep rail pass in your wallet , just touch it on the sensor with out opeing it, and you are in. Use these smart cards for drinks and in quite a few shops as well. going to a gig is about only place you really need hard cash, use your phone to pay a lotta stuff too. even small thining like drink machines all have 3 electronic ways you can pay.
(EDITOR's Note - Love the hat! Mr Wizard wandering around in this must make the locals think 'Boy, those foreigners sure are hipsters)
Station platforms often have a noodle bar.
Took a monorail (driverless) to Daiba an artificial built in Tokyo Bay, quite large bigger than Sydney CBD.
Strange shaped bulldings there.
One with sphere, TV station production area s inside the sphere.
One shaped like a ship is a maritime museum.
Statue Of Liberty donated by French government
