Friday, July 18, 2008

Best of the Bestest

I am really exhausted from the Bennie K concert at Zepp Tokyo. It was a great concert and I was really satisfied in my very first J-pop concert in Japan.



This was not my first time at Zepp Tokyo. I went there to see Jay-Z almost 6 years ago. I forgot how small this place was. Luckily, Japanese people are a lot tamer than the people you would find in similar over-crowded concert venues in the states. Going inside Zepp Tokyo was like boarding a Southwest airplane. Every ticket has a specific number and when they call the ticket's number range, that is when you are allowed to enter the venue and try to find any open space available. Even though my ticket fell in the higher number range, my group and I managed to get a good spot in the middle about 10 meters away from the stage. Start time for the concert was around 6:30pm but Bennie K took the stage about 10 minutes later. They rocked the stage for about 2 hours and it was crazy from beginning to end. I was really impressed in the performance quality of Bennie K especially Yuki's live singing ability and the energy they brought throughout the whole concert. I'm happy to say that everyone I went with had a good time and that we are all bigger fans of Bennie K.

Afterwords we chilled in Odaiba for a while which included riding the brightly lit Ferris Wheel. I'm not so good in dealing with heights so I had sweaty palms throughout the ride.





The Ferris wheel itself is pretty spectacular at night, but it looks even cooler when it is reflected off on the buildings across from it. As you can see above, I failed to adequately take a picture of the coolness from my mobile phone's camera.

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