Yurikamome

Train spotting from the balcony

So we have been living in this apartment for two weeks now.  Tom loves it - it is on Tokyo Bay with a good view of the Rainbow Bridge, Daiba and the boats that come and go, but the main reason he loves it is because there is a light railway just below us.  This is called the Yurikamome and takes people from Shimbashi over to Daiba.  Basically it is a Docklands railway, in that it is run by driverless trains.

Mummy guess what number it is

Daddy it's your turn to guess!

The best thing about it is that every train has a number so every day we play the guessing game.  Tom goes on the balcony and asks us what number train will be next, we guess and we are invariably wrong.

In fact, the only time we have been right is when we have cheated.  Numbers go from 01 to 36.  They go very frequently, every 4 minutes or so, which means there is a train in front of our apartment every 2 minutes.

We thought the novelty of the railway might rub off, but no, he is as excited about it today as he was the day we arrived.