Exploring Tokyo

The weather forecast said it was supposed to rain most of today so we chose an indoor activity.  We went to the Miraikan National Musem of Emerging Science and Innovation.  Some of the exhibits were difficult to understand because the descriptions were written in Japanese.  However some did have English descriptions and there were a few fun interactive ones.

Shown above is a game where you are a pharmacist and you have to match the medicines provided to the needs of the patients.  If you give one of the virtual people the wrong medicine they get a rash.  That is me in the picture, purposefully giving someone a rash.

In this exhibit you had to robotically perform surgery on a pretend patient and remove a tumor.

We weren't certain what the purpose of this exhibit was.  In this picture my dad and I are looking up at a large globe.  This was my dad's favorite exhibit because he got to lie down.

We got to the science center by subway and monorail.  All of the signs were in Japanese, only a few are in English, making this city more difficult than Singapore or Hong Kong.  But because the Japanese people are so kind and helpful, any time we looked really confused they offered to help us find our way.

We stopped at Seven Eleven on our way to the museum and they had some unusual food items.  One of these items was a scary packet of squid.