Shima Shima Town
Andrew and I joined a couple of our Tokyo ex-pat friends for a morning at Shima Shima Town in Kawasaki. ShimaShima is a cartoon tiger who is very popular amongst Japanese children.
This little amusement park area is on the 8th floor of the O1O1 building in Kawasaki. It amazes me how many things the Japanese can cram into a department store. Most have a grocery store on the basement levels, many have 1-2 floors of restaurants, along with mulitple floors of shopping, then a play area on the top floors for the kiddos. It's the crammed-space thing of building Up instead of Out, I suppose.
So we took an express train from Shinjuku and rode, three strollers and three moms in a row (blocking tons of space on the train) for about half an hour.
Eek! This place charges by the time you are inside, instead of a standard entrance fee. It's 400yen per person for the first 3o minutes and then another 200yen per person per 15 minutes thereafter. Sheesh this could add up quick!
A ShimaShima show was just starting when we arrived!
After about 10 minutes of the show, Andrew was bored, so we headed off to the ball-pit room.
I want one of these in my basement!
I don't know. I just don't know.
There's that smile!
Love the apron, Andrew!
This cool phone contraption allows the two people to be on opposity ends of the play park and talk on the phone, and still see one another on the view screen!
What a big boy on the subway!
This little amusement park area is on the 8th floor of the O1O1 building in Kawasaki. It amazes me how many things the Japanese can cram into a department store. Most have a grocery store on the basement levels, many have 1-2 floors of restaurants, along with mulitple floors of shopping, then a play area on the top floors for the kiddos. It's the crammed-space thing of building Up instead of Out, I suppose.
So we took an express train from Shinjuku and rode, three strollers and three moms in a row (blocking tons of space on the train) for about half an hour.
Eek! This place charges by the time you are inside, instead of a standard entrance fee. It's 400yen per person for the first 3o minutes and then another 200yen per person per 15 minutes thereafter. Sheesh this could add up quick!
A ShimaShima show was just starting when we arrived!
After about 10 minutes of the show, Andrew was bored, so we headed off to the ball-pit room.
I want one of these in my basement!
I don't know. I just don't know.
There's that smile!
Love the apron, Andrew!
This cool phone contraption allows the two people to be on opposity ends of the play park and talk on the phone, and still see one another on the view screen!
What a big boy on the subway!
posted by Rachel :-) | 2:14 PM
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