Day 13 - Odaiba, Character Street and Hotel Change
Odaiba
We had originally planned on visiting Odaiba earlier in the trip but with the rocky start the trip got on to we had to push it back to our final day which meant that we sadly couldn't visit Comiket or go back to Disneyland.
We'd spent most of the morning packing our three cases ready to change hotel again in the late afternoon, and didn't leave our hotel until around 11am. We headed straight for lunch before making our way over to Ikebukuro Station and heading over to Daiba.
Our first stop in Odaiba, and the main reason we were visiting, was the 1:1 scale Gundam. We had missed the show time of the morning and weren't going to be able to make it back for the night show, but we still stuck around for 10 minutes or so and took plenty of photographs and video of the life size Gundam RX-78-2 Ver. GFT before heading into Diver City.
Diver City currently has a Naruto/Boruto event exhibition on, its like a smaller, scaled down version of the Naruto Exhibition. I'm glad we visited both as I prefer the statues in Diver City to the ones I saw at the Naruto Exhibition in Osaka. If you're in the area you should definitely pay Diver City a visit, they also have a One Piece event on at the minute, if Naruto isn't your thing.
Tokyo Station Character Street
Underneath Tokyo Station there are a couple of shopping areas, in the First Avenue shopping area you will find Tokyo Character Street. It is a full street of popular and popup anime and cartoon character shops with everything from Miffy and Hello Kitty to Pokêmon and Tamagotchi.
It was hard not to buy everything, but I already knew how jam packed our suitcases were. In the end we each got a new Tamagotchi, and we also got a Pikachu Station Master, Mametchi Station Master, a Superman Domo Funko POP, a little Miffy plush, a small Kuchipatchi plush, and probably some other stuff that I can't remember right now!
We did visit the Jump Shop but it was packed and there wasn't really anything we wanted.
It is definitely worth a visit, even if you're just picking up a gift for someone else, if you're low on time though try to go somewhere else thats a bit more specific as the shopping areas under Tokyo Station are huge and you could end up looking around there for hours.
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