Internship in Tokyo

Tokyo Designers Week

As you know the design exhibition called Tokyo Designers Week was canceled because of the weather on saturday. So we had an other go on Sunday instead. And now it was finally opened for business!
The theme for this year was Environmental design.

This place is amazing for several reasons. The creativty is very inspiring, there are so many interesting new invetions. We discovered a technical device that had a shape of a stone with eyes. It was made of plastic and had lights in it. The colors changed and it could receive text messages AND tell the message AND understand if the message was happy or sad. Don´t ask us how it works, it just does. Too bad it´s not in Sweden yet...

Also a beautiful clock with a shape as a Merry go around.

There were rugs made of an old rug. Very beatiful with different models.

Walking around for hours very happy we decided to leave. At the exit we met a IKEA co-worker. It was very nice and we decided to have lunch with her. What a fantastic day!!!

Starting the day with an energy drink bought in one of the bending machines in Tokyo.

A rainy morning outside the exhibition

The opened at 11 o´clock. Not everyboday was done with ther stuff.

But IKEA was

We thougt IKEA's container was one of the best ones!

pretty pictures in the IKEA kontainer

This is how it looks.

IKEA-gave away blue small bags. What a perfect blue color! The same as the Tokyo Designers Week logo.

Amazingly you were lloud to take pictures in most of the stands

Ccool new design cup holder.

A giant banana made from recykeled paper.

Tthe exhibition hall.

At this place we had lunch.

Tthe exhibition continued outside.

Cool shoes.

Students work.

Typhoon?

We were supposed to go to Tokyo Designers Week with our interior design mentor William today, but when we got there it was closed! The reason was there´s a typhoon coming to Tokyo... So we had to turn around. There were no signs anywhere that said that they were closed today. The only thing was 2 security guards at the enterence. The funny thing was when people went up to the guard and asked about it they took the news with a smile and just walked away. If this would have been in Sweden people would have gotten mad and irritated!
Instead we took the train to the newest part of Tokyo called Odaiba! A piece of land ,in northern Tokyo, that has been man-built during the last 10 or so years. It is quite a futuristic part of the city. We also passed the Rainbow bridge, a famous landmark in Tokyo. (Traveling by train felt like flying in the sky.)

the place we decided to visit was a museum called National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation. In this musem they have a humanoid-robot called ASIMO. It performs twice a day. It´s repetoire includes tricks that humans both cannot do. It moves both children and adults. Besides the robot-show, the museum contained exhibitions about biology and technology. Very interesting.

After the museum we decided to call it a day and go home. Just in case of the typhoon-warnings. It has been raining all day and it has been some hard winds. But actually it wasn't even a storm... maybe the typhoon will come through Tokyo in the night time instead...
Tokyo Designers Week did not have to be closed today. No typhoon today,

We will have an other go tomorrow instead!

Subway

Louisa figuring out were to go

qute communication

National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation

This is how the toilet looks in a space ship

this is what happens to things when they are exposed to pressure

cool heat ditecting camera

Anna in an submarine

if you sat on this rotating sofa your picture came up on the wall, and if you moved arround like the bicture came out this way.

invitation to yokyo design week

Before going home on Wednesday William gave us invitations to go to the Tokyo Designers Week in Roppongi! It startes this weekend. It is actually our last free weekend in Tokyo, so we hope to make it a rememberable one! crossing our fingers the typhoone will let the trains run smoothly...

planing a trip to Nagano

On wednesday we took a trip back to Shinjuku to meet up with Kobayashi-san and Okamoto-san to plan our trip to Nagano Next weekend.
Some things has hapened sinse last time and now we are staying an extra day to meet the Mayor of the town we are staying in. Hopefully we can start up a foundation to build a future relationship on. So in the future other students from Leksand can go and visit Nagano and also for Japanese students to come to Leksand. It really is an honour to be asked by the town of Leksand to do this for them, and for out shool. The Entrepreneureal college of Leksand! The place where dreams come true!
Kobayashi-san is very kind man and he always takes very good care of us. He is very trustwerthy. He has been working with our shcool for over 20 years and is an embassador of the Entrepreneureal college and we understand why! He is so nice and actually bought us a lovely diner and then desert. We never stop being amazed by the beautiful food here in Japan! and yes it tastes exactly as good as it looks!

Typhone season

People at work are talking about a typhoon that is coming this way... Should we be conserned with this? actually we are not sure what to expect. On TV they are showing how the villagers are preparing by building barricades in case of flodings... October-November is typhoon-season in Japan.
In the worst case the trains stop so you have to stay at home. So heavy rain and wind is coming our way.

Update:

The typhoon arrived and it was no worse than a rainy and windy day. We don't even know if we would call it a storm. So this was a small typhoon. Nothing to worry about.

Christmas is coming

Cristmas ic coming! IKEA is not late to show that. This week we have been working with the cristymas decoratioins down in market hall. Our jow was to decorate cristmas trees and displaying cristmas decoration.

Cristmas in Japan is a lot like cristmas in sweden. But the Japanese does not do it by tradition, they do it just for fun!