We left at 8:30 ready to go to the Tokyo Mobility Show. The trains were crowded, as per usual, and we ended up losing Matt when he managed to get on the train and the rest of us didn’t. Me and Chelsea got on the next train and the others got on the one after us. We reconvened and got off at Tokyo Big Sight Station, where we were a bit overwhelmed with the crowds. There was quite literally a sea of people flowing into the exhibition hall for the Mobility Show.
The queue moved fairly quickly and we got in with no bother. We stopped at a little cafe for some breakfast before going to the less busy looking halls. Downstairs was some sort of music event that was on a pause for a couple of days. Upstairs was empty. No wonder it wasn’t busy. We went to the second building and went to the gift shop where we lost the friends straight away. I bought a fork and spoon with a spanner on the end, a bag, and a suspension keyring, which I later got a free one of, doh! Chelsea got a gearstick keyring.
There was a Veilside stand which was really cool and a Takara/Tomy stall which you had to queue on your phone for so you could buy some exclusive diecast cars. I got 3 and Chelsea got one.
We then went to the trade show bit and got loads of freebies. We liked the ones where you had to follow them on Instagram as that was easy once we figured out how to do it. Chelsea unfollowed them as soon as we walked away. The ones where you had to chat to someone were not that great. And in Japan they use Line instead of Whatsapp, which we don’t have.
We were getting a bit hungry so we queued up for some burgers. I had to leave Chelsea to get the burgers as I needed to go and join the real queue for my Takara/Tomy cars. I got them and met Chelsea again and we sat outside in the bright sunshine to enjoy our burgers.
The next hall was sort of for innovation. There was a video about electric cars and Godzilla, a bit weird, but at least we can say we saw Godzilla in Tokyo. We then saw the robots that served us at the robot cafe earlier in the week. These ones were called Pepper. They had a JAXA exhibition too. They had a conveyer belt with free coffee pods on, so we snatched those up.
There was then a camper bit which had a special Disney 100 camper.
We went into the final hall which was were the real motor show was, why didn’t we go in there first!
We saw the new RX7.
…and the new R36, which we didn’t think much of.
…and the new Sony car.
We finally made it to the Mitsubishi stand and I bought loads. They’d run out of bags though 🙁
The Honda stand was really cool because they had a special AI thing where you could type in your dream car on this website, and then AI would generate it, and you could print it out. If you were lucky, your design would also be projected onto the stand.
In the itinerary, we’d scheduled the motor show to take until early afternoon. We didn’t finish until 7:30pm. Our feet, legs, and backs hurt, but we’d had such a good day we didn’t care. The friends had gone off to the Gundam shop and statue and the poo museum. They said we didn’t miss much, so that was good.