Last Saturday we were around the Tokyo station area, walking past Hibiya Park and the Imperial Palace Gardens in the unrelenting drizzle that made what should be a pleasant stroll a rather uncomfortably cold one (it turned out to be one of the coldest days last month).
Our rendezvous point (Marunouchi Bldg Starbucks)
Umbrellas up
Sakuradamon Gate
Delicious burger set lunch (added the pineapple - much to everyone's horror) ~1150yen
Meidi-Ya at Marunouchi Bldg! Didn't really see one anywhere else so far
Then it was time to leave for the Saitama Super Arena for the MTV Video Music Awards Japan! Got the tickets through a friend who had an account to bid at Yahoo Auctions. Poor pictures because picture/video taking was prohibited (of course), and Japan is a place where (almost) everyone abides with the rules.
Pity I didn't know most of the Japanese stars that appeared (EXILE won 3 awards though, while Mariah and Fergie took one each).
The futuristic-looking Saitama Shintoshin station
Queueing up patiently in the rain - there must have been 10000 people with standing tickets (of which we held two)
Saitama Super Arena
Waiting to enter
Finally our number was called
Inside
Blur shot of Mariah Carey in her opening performance (which was really good!)
Simple Plan
Bono!
Waiting to exit
Two little videos:
1) Waiting for our number to be called to be let into the arena
2) Mariah appearing
Back to finish my homework.
