Zip Nuvo
Today was our last day in Tokyo, and we took advantage of some free time for a tour of Asakusa and a hunt for the newest gadgests in Akihabara. We spent a fair amount of time at Yodobashi Akiba, quite possibly the biggest eletronics store in Japan, then wandered in the busy streets of Electric City looking for robots. Our search remained largely unsuccessful, until my friend Reynald took us in a hidden store full of the latest humanoid robots produced by companies such as Hitec Robotics or Kondo. My favorite was the nuvo produced by Zip and designed by Ken Okuyama. Its design reminded me of the robots living on Laputa, the castle in the sky featured in Tenkuu no Shiro Rapyuta, my favorite movie from Hayao Myazaki. We ended the day with an all-you-can-eat shabu-shabu dinner. Many thanks to Reynald for his local guidance.
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