LaLa Garden and Sansuitei Restaurant Tsukuba

Today I spent the day exploring more of Tsukuba. I started the day off by going to the LaLa Garden. Don't be confused (as I was) that this is an actual garden. It's actually a shopping mall.

The neat thing about this shopping mall (along with the Q T mall and maybe other malls in Japan?!?) is that this is an outdoor-indoor mall. Meaning the walkways between shops are all outdoor (or mainly outdoor) while the shops themselves are indoor. It's basically like a stripmall without the MASSIVE department stores.

After that I headed to the Tsukuba Expo and planetarium. The planetarium was sorta funny because it's basically a giant movie but only featured in Japanese... which makes sense really because why would we have a movie in Japanese in Canada?

Then that night we headed to Sansuitei for a banquet for Lindsay's conference. It was a more of a reception then a banquet because everyone stood around and ate. However, the food was delicious with sashimi, prawns and other pickled stuff to name a few things.

After dinner we headed to the Pink Panther and played some video games. I took a little movie of a guy playing the equivalent of rock bank drums ... I caught probably the slowest part of the game too! It was seriously crazy how fast his arms were moving!

Tomorrow I'm off to Akibahara to explore electric Tokyo should be exciting!

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