Eye of Yokohama

Day 16/63

We left Koriyama for Shin-Yokohama. In order to get there though, we needed to go through Tokyo. Shin-Yokohama is only there because of the shinkansen station. If we had stayed in Yokohama, we would have had to go through Shin-Yokohama anyways, so it was a very organized decision not to drag our luggage through that fuzz.

Our hotel in Shin-Yokohama is the Prince, which is a huge around 40 floors of hotel rooms complex. There is a queuing system to get to the reception, and around 10 elevators which will take you to the 32nd floor (where our room is) approximately faster than my elevator at work takes me to the 5th floor…

Our mission for the day was to check out Yokohama China Town, which is apparently the second biggest outside China. Yes it was huge. But unfortunately, at the end, it’s nothing but restaurants and tat for tourists and one pathetic little temple. Well, impressive temple, but in any case, I’ve been more impressed in my life. However, the food was excellent and I had a great time with my camera walking around the harbour area.

It’s a national holiday for the next three days which is kind of unfortunate and makes all the places to be absolutely booked out… I mean, even parks are seriously crowded. Yokohama is the most London city that I’ve ever met (besides London, I mean…) It’s got a kind of a river thing going on, with big buildings around it, amusements of all kinds and even a Yokohama-eye, a fareswheel.

It’s considerably more hot here again. It’s evident that we are no longer in the North, but now in the East of Japan, as they let you know. Our very carefully planned schedule gave us a needed time to breathe in the North and now we are charged up and ready to spear more heat. Yokohama is the second biggest city of Japan. So big in fact that it’s grown to be the same city as the biggest city in Japan. Which is 18 minutes away on the Shinkansen.

This concluded out time in Yokohama, nothing very special happened there concerning the samurai… However, tomorrow we are travelling close by for some more research in the form of Admiral Togo’s warship. As we’ve completed our missions so effectively, we will get a day in Tokyo. My husband is apparently letting me decide where to go there… I suppose some wikipedia time is called for.