Day (or two) trip to Odaiba
In the summer of 2017 I finally went to a (one month) trip to Japan. One of the first things I did when coming to Tokyo was visiting Odaiba - of course. Me and my sister were really hyped about it since we watched Digimon 20 years ago and we knew that a lot of locations in it are actually real. Unfortunately, we weren't prepared as much as we could be, so there are a few locations we missed (no worries, we will go there again and see the things we missed) and a few locations that we still didn't know about, because we didn't watch the whole Digimon Tri yet.
Going to Odaiba the first time, we decided to go to Hinode pier (since this was also in Digimon - remember when T.K. and Joey meet at the pier to go help the others. The scene where T.K.s mother was running after them because she was so worried.) and take a boat to Odaiba. It costs 480 yen (at least in 2017 did) and the boat ride is about 20 minutes. I suggest you look at the schedule before going there since the boat doesn't go all the time.
The ride was a little windy but it's so nice to see the Rainbow bridge (
) and Fuji Tv and the
Odaiba beach while driving to it.
So the first thing we did when arriving at Odaiba we searched for 25 porticos (
) - you know the
art sculptures in front of Tai's apartment? The 25 porticos are Daniel Buren's artwork. They were
made in 1996, just 3 years before Digimon Adventure. We can see the 25 porticos a few times
in the first season when Tai's apartment is shown. We stopped there and made a million pictures and ate some
onigiris on the stairs.
) to Dai-san Daiba - "Battery nr.3".
) is shown in both first and the second season.
In the first one in episode 34, when Myotismon captures Gatomon and in the second season in
episode 17, when the DigiDestined use it for a meeting place and later when Imperialdramon takes
the children all around the world. It's actually a really nice little island, very greeny and I
can see why the DigiDestined would meet there. It was actually really empty and even the way to
get there was a little unpleasant. Long grass fighting with your legs. But it gives you a nice
view on the Rainbow bridge and Fuji TV. 
) - it's shown in the first season where
Mimi and Palmon talk to each other and they are sitting on this very interesting playground equipment in a park. For a long time, I thought that they are
sitting on a bench that looks like this. So when I was in the park I was searching for the benches like this. And I didn't find any. Now I see this is a part
of the playground equipments. Since I didn't take any pictures of the park (because there were a lot of children and I didn't want to look like a stalker) I can't
check if this equipment they sat on was there or not. I guess I will check the next time. So I took the picture of it on the park's official website.
). On the way there we went through Tokyo Teleport Town
(
) - the bridge that got destroyed by Venommyotismon in season 1. First we went to see the Ferris Wheel. The Wheel is shown a lot of times in season 1 and movies. It's 16 minutes long ride and you can see the whole Odaiba on it. I am scared of heights and it was a painful 16 minutes ride. I made my sister take all the pictures while on the ride.
), which was under construction when they were making Digimon adventure. So
we can see the Aqua city in episode 36, where Matt and Gabumon hide Kari from Myotismon.So inside the Aqua city on the 5th floor, there is a restaurant called Pomu no ki and has a loooot of different omurices. We both don't eat meat and it was hard to find something without, but here they had a lot of options. I ate the basic one and my sister ate one with spinach and sour cream. They were both very delicious. Next time I will return here.
We decided to visit Tokyo Big Sight (
), which was shown a few times in season 1 alongside
with the sculpture of a giant saw (Claes Oldenburg's sculpture of a giant saw plunged into the earth (titled Saw, Sawing))
in front of the Tokyo Big Sight. We can see both of them in
episode 35 where Lilymon was fighting with DarkTyranomon. We can also see the inside of the building
in
the same episode. When Myotismon searched for the 8th DigiDestined he locked down a lot of people
in the Big Sight. When we arrived there, there was an anime convention (I think). It was full of
cosplayers. That's why we only checked the building from outside. I still like the interesting
shape of the building. We didn't check it from all the angles, just from the "main street".
I really liked the space in front of the Big sight, so big and so beautiful.
) in Palette Town. It was around 20 minutes walk. On
our way there we crossed Akemi Bridge. And if you saw the Digimon Tri, you will recognize the place
under the bridge as a meeting point between the digidestined. 
). We didn't go to the building but we made a few pictures
from afar (the center was seen in season 1, episode 21 when Tai came back to the real
world). 
) was probably one of the best thing to see in Odaiba. It was shown, mentioned
so many times in season 1 and also season 2 (it was the workplace of Matt and T.K.'s father,
it's a scene of Wizardmon's death, the battle against Myotismon (even though the building is
destroyed in the battle).
We didn't go all the way up (because we didn't know if we could go), but when we went upstairs to the entrance of it there was a One piece exhibition and a nice view of "the ball" (hachitama) on Fuji TV. In the night the Fuji TV (al also Ferris Wheel) has its own light show, so you can't miss the building.
Next time I will go there I will update this post with more Digimon locations. There are a few Digimon locations outside Odaiba that are worth to see too (Tokyo tower, Shinjuku, Hikarigaoka, ...).
I know I didn't write anything new in the post but I really liked writing it, because it was such a nice experience and a really good trip. And also Digimon related.