Continued from Tokyo Day 3 Part 1.

They’ve got a giant jellyfish section in this aquarium. One of the best I’ve ever seen.

Woah. Don’t believe I’ve seen these before.

So purple

Almost looks like an octopus.

Penguins.

How does a fish with a pattern like this exist? It’s such a unique pattern, I’ve never seen a fish like this in my life. RL says that it is her favorite fish that she’s ever seen.

Garden eels, Sumida aquariums really try to showcase these on their marketing. RL loved this tank.

They also had this GIANT blowfish that kept on rubbing its face against the glass.

Rub rub rub.

Salamanders

Pretty unique exhibit to this aquarium would be their gold fish section. RL was a really big fan of the gold fish.

RL really liked how the tanks are open on all sides al you can look at it from all sides…I don’t know why she was so impressed by that. I guess this is kinda rare to see in a public aquarium.

Everyone, pretend you are a goldfish.

RL though this fish a beautiful.

I like that fish logo.

Scrub scrub scrub.

Tiny jelly.

This is their jellyfish breeding area. I guess they grow a lot of their own jelly to keep their tanks stocked. Or maybe all aquariums do that but this one is just displaying the process? That’s neat, RL liked that.

Born just around a month ago.

Woah, I like these!

RL being fascinated by the tiny jelly fish.

The jellyfish above at 6-7 days old.

1 day old, tiny. Can’t make it out on this reduced resolution photo uploaded to the blog.

PL has a 6th sense of people taking a photo of her.

Must smile for all photos.

We saw these earlier, and the whole time the kids have been begging to get some capsules.

This was an odd section. A corridor with mirrors and lights and just a few tanks.

Moray. At first, when we looked through this porthole type window, we didn’t notice it since it was so up close. But now that we see it, we can’t unsee it.

Oh look! Mudskippers! We saw these in the wild in Taiwan.

This is the same type of crab that I saw in Hawaii washed up on the rocky coastline.

Do they serve penguins?

RL said out of all the aquariums that we’ve been to in our travels, this is her favorite one. She loves how they display the fish like art in a museum.

Crazy how Japan is still very much a semi cash economy. I’ve been walking around with pockets full of coins from various transactions. And those coins also get used all the time.

Alright kids, go at it.

Gift shop. PL is laughing because I made the stuffy eel bite her on the head.

Attack!

Ohhh…a lottery. 1500 Yen to pull one of the flying paper in the globe and a guaranteed win of at least the smallest one. Sign me up.

I kinda did it just because I wanted to stick my hand in this thing.

YES!!!! I WON!!!! The tiniest prize…but I celebrate either way…haha.

We shall name him…Neb. CL had tried to name something else Ned, and somehow we mistakenly heard it as Neb, so now this stuffy is Neb. Neb surprisingly is a squeaky toy, and likes to attack children on the top of their head when they aren’t listening to their father. Everybody loves Neb.

Now, we need to find the subway back to our hotel….easier said than done. We’ve been walking all day, we are tired, just wanna go back to the hotel and rest.

Map isn’t as helpful as you think because not all elevators go to the levels that we want to go to.

Wandering around the mall portion looking for the correct way to get down to the subway.

Finally, after much much longer than expected, almost 20 minutes, we finally found a way down to the subway station and on the train.

Back at our hotel. Everyone’s thirsty. There aren’t that many public water fountains in Japan. It’s time to have quiet time/nap time. Gonna meet up with JM in Shinjuku later for dinner.

Heading home tomorrow, so returning the manga we borrowed from the hotel library. CL loved this series so RL is trying to remember which one it is to get her some when we get back home.

Alright, gotta rally. What was supposed to be a slower day turned into a more action packed day than originally planned due to meeting up with JM. That’s alright, we’ll make our last night in Tokyo count.

After nap (for us) and Ipad time for the kids, its back to the subway.

Oh look, this is odd. They’ve got water fountain in the middle of the subway platform here, and also like a shoe wash station? What?!

Taking the train across town to Shinjuku. PL has been saying that she thought Tokyo would be more bustling with more lights, tall builds, signs, and whatnot. We haven’t really been out when it’s been dark so she hasn’t seen all the crazy lights lit up at night here. We debated about having RL stay home with the kids and just me going to Shinjuku to meet up with JM. But we figured this would be a good chance for the kids to see bustling Shinjuku at night to cap off their experience here in Tokyo.

Walk to one side, single file.

Dinner spot for us. We’ve been trying to eat Japanese curry this whole trip, gotta make it count tonight. Our favorite curry restaurant change here in Japan.

All counter seating only, and we had to split into two groups.

RL with kpoopoo.

Me with the girls. I also sat on the one stool that is possibly the noisiest and squeakiest stool in the entire world. Oh my god, it was so loud that every time I barely moved it would let out a shriek that would make everyone in the restaurant flinch. I’m surprised no one from their restaurant greased the swivel mechanism.

To be continued at Tokyo Day 3 Part 3.