Umeda Sky

Koji Aida, far left in the post below, is leaving tomorrow for a month-long business trip north of Tokyo, at Hitachi's corporate HQ. Casey and I met up with him this evening to see him on his way. Koji had a 10 o'clock bus ticket, and there was time to visit the sky garden at the top of the Umeda Sky building. As cheesy as it sounds, the view up there is crazy. Distanced just enough from the city to get a good view of it all, the observation deck is amazing, especially at night. This here's a view from the top, and a picture of the building below. The ride to the top is nice and scary because the escalators that climb the last three floors are suspended above the nothingness between the two main towers.