So a story…
On Tuesday I went to Marubiru in Tokyo for some fieldwork. Marubiru is the short name for a tall building (36 floors), the Marunouchi Building, outside of Tokyo station. It is quite new, modern, and houses mostly office space but also (on floors B1 – 8F and 35F-36F) restaurants, shopping, and “interactive spaces”. I quote interactive spaces because there is some interactivity but I don`t think the full vision of the word interactive has been realized in this building.
Still…there are many interesting things about it. One being the Cafe ease on 1F. It is an indoor cafe / restaurant next to the MaruCube, a large open area intended for hosting special events and displays. The special thing about this cafe is “themes”…they change the theme of the cafe every few months (might be wrong on that time span). When I went, the theme was “Tsuneyasu Miyamoto Football Park Cafe”. Miyamoto is a very popular player for the Japan World Cup football team. This is the cafe:


K so I am feeling sicker and sicker and I can`t write much more so point form:
- had lunch at this cafe
- did some more work
- around 3pm saw that some people were starting to lineup for an event in the MaruCube.
- I hung around for 2 hours to see what was going to happen
- it was actually a special appearance by Miyamoto himself
- many women were there, they cheered, took pictures (he is quite the good looking guy with very amazing hair)
- I was excited that I got to experience this event with all these excited people around me even though when he talked, I had no clue what he was saying
That is my story…man…bad job…but I need some rest. Not so much from activity…but from expectation. It is giving me a fever. Ick.