Saturday, October 15, 2016

Day 33 of Overseas Trip


I went to Akabanebashi station to explore Tokyo Tower. It is the nearest station.






It is relatively easy to find Tokyo Tower from aforesaid station.I can see why Tokyo Skytree is more preferred due to shopping centre which is built below of Tokyo Skytree.

The main attraction at Tokyo Tower is one piece theme in there.

After that, I went to Roppongi to meet a new Singaporean friend, who works in Japan.





After the meal, he brought me to 45th floor of the building where he works at. It is free to enter but tends to be restricted to people who work in there.

Good location to take picture.




After that, I went to Ginza to explore Sony showroom. Thereafter, it is about 15 minutes walking to Tokyo International Forum. It is to find out how attractive the building is.

A lot of lanes that let you to cross like that. Great to work there especially when you need to bring something from point A to point B in both opposite direction.

As usual, I am not sure how to appreciate the art of this building construction.

With 3 days pass of unlimited ride on Tokyo Metro and Toei Subway, I utilised it as much as possible as today is the last day.

I went to Nihombashi Station. It is to see how Tokyo Stock Exchange building looks like.

I took normal train from Nihombashi station to Mitsukoshimae Station. It is to see how coins in the past look like. It is in currency museum.

Truly insight to see a string of many coins.


That ends the Japan tour. I had the dinner at Ippudo near Higashi-Ginza station. I had a flight at midnight. Everything went well. I arrived Haneda International Airport from host's home.

It is wonderful experience to tour Japan. Next blog article will discuss where I had gone to from Haneda International Airport.

Books

Title: Maverick: The Success Behind the World's Most Unusual Workplace
Author: Ricardo Semler
Rating: 9/10
Remark: Excellent read about Semler's work career and how he create workplace that is one of the kind. No company has done the same as Semco.

Title: Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant
Rating: 8/10
Remark: It is better than what I actually thought. I appreciate the real-life example of how New York Police was restructured with so limited budget.

Movies

Title: Independence Day: Resurgence (Hollywood Movie 2016)
Synopsis:
20 years later, aliens are making its inroad to the Earth again. Humans have no idea what the aliens want. The director of Earth Space Defence prefers 'wait and see' approach while the US president, with major support from the presidents of other countries, chooses to attack unknown item that arrives at the Moon out of sudden. Who are the aliens? What do they want?
Rating: 7/10
Remark: It is nice movie that refresh your sci-fi imagination.

Title: The Infiltrator (Hollywood Movie 2016)
Synopsis:
It is based on real-life story of how police team in charge of drug cases crack the tough cases. The tough cases are the one where the head of drug gang is hidden afar. The male cop decided to do undercover with the approval of his superior - to find out who is the leader of the drug gang.
Rating: 9/10
Remark: It is surprisingly good. Heart-pumping moments there.
















Tony Del Piero wrote and posted at at 7:28 pm