April 07, 2004
Night flight over Tokyo
Posted by bopuc at April 7, 2004 11:06 AM
I managed to smuggle my camera on-board a helicopter tour of the Tokyo night sky. This despite being pointed to a locker (where I put my wallet instead) and setting off a metal detector ("oh I forgot my lighter in my pocket!").
The view was, of course, spectacular. We took off from about a half-hour-by-train east of Tokyo and within minutes were circling around Tokyo Tower, swooping into Shibuya and quietly contemplating Shinjuku.
And then, it was over. 14,700 yen I'd spend again.
Comments
wow... nice job... great experience!
Posted by: Solman at April 7, 2004 11:31 AM
sugoi, ne?
Posted by: Poisson at April 7, 2004 11:37 AM
John, I spent the whole train ride back trying to remember that word (sugoi)!
(Sugoi = japanese for "cool")
Si, si, muy, muy sugoi!!
(It is amazing how my mind cycles through every langugage I know when I am trying to learn/use/remember japanese... It keeps spitting up words in french, german, italian, russian when I query it for something I *know* in japanese... like it is refusing to do so... Very strange.)
Posted by: Boris Anthony at April 7, 2004 08:12 PM
sika hyv?§!
(finnish for 'piggy good', i.e. the goodest a good thing can get)
any more pictures for those who missed out on it...?
Posted by: Matt at April 8, 2004 12:34 AM
Boris, where was the heliport? I'd love to do this sometime myself...
Posted by: Gen at April 8, 2004 04:44 AM
Wooo! Coolness! Or rather, sugoiness!
Posted by: blork at April 8, 2004 10:13 AM
Matt: piggy good is pretty damn good, I must concur.
Hi Gen! The heliport was out by Disneyland/Sea... Maihama station on Keiyo Line. I can get you the full info from John. (p.s.: I am here for 3 more weeks... surely we will cross paths... ;)
Blork: yes. way way sugoi. Sadly only 2 of the 5 shots I took are any good. I'll post the other one at some poitn when I am less sleepy (and drunk). ;)
Posted by: Boris Anthony at April 8, 2004 10:55 AM
They don't allow cameras? WTF is up with that?
If you're going to do it again, talk to Yuka first - she's at the Belgian chamber of commerce and one of their members does these kinds of flights, IIRC.
Posted by: Jim O'Connell at April 9, 2004 08:27 PM
Where can I get info on private night tours of Tokyo for my brother and his wife for thier wedding present?
Thanks,
JP
Posted by: Jonathan at June 24, 2004 11:16 PM
where can i get info about this tour?? do you have an url?
Posted by: christina at October 2, 2005 01:27 PM
Asahi Helicopter offers such Nightflights. Just visit http://www.asahi-heli.co.jp/ for some more information.
Posted by: AND at August 26, 2006 02:46 PM