May 10th

Today I didn't have to go to school so I just kinda hung out at home for part of the day. In the afternoon I went over the the Toyota Showroom. It actually spans 3 different buildings. The first has almost every model that Toyota makes which in Japan is a ton. There are ATM style machines that you can set a appointment to take a test drive in one of the cars and they have a track that goes in and outside of the building where you can drive a electric concept around. The next building is more of a concept building where they have a wall of nothing but different from past and present models. They also have a display of different dash boards and seats. The Third building is the History building, which I think they change the display once a month or so. This month they had 1st to last generation MR-2 and a Racing MR-2 on display. They also had a bunch of older cars including the 2000GT.

The whole thing is attached to a arcade, big Ferris Wheel, and Mall. I wondered around the mall a bit and found a pet store which had one lone Parakeet for about $18 but he seemed a lot less skiddish then the ones in the US pet stores. Right next to the Parakeet were Parrotlets for about $26 which is crazy cheap.

Next to the pet store they had a Japanese version of Spencers. That was pretty interesting, they had lots of stuff that would be cool for a desk at work or just around the house.