Yokohama

On Tuesday the 8th, my first excursion out of the City of Tokyo was to her little sister, Yokohama, a port city not far South of Tokyo

Managing somehow to spend nearly four times as much as I needed to on the train fare I finally made it to Yokohama Station and began by looking at my map of the city for inspiration. Only to find that Yokohama's very own station wasn't on my map of Yokohama. I didn't know where I was.

So I wandered around for at least two hours eventually coming back to the station and not having come across a single landmark from my map. I even checked to make sure I hadn't gone to some other town with a similar name like Chokahomo, but no I was in the right town.

Needless to say I didn't get any photo's of this area because I was simply too angry to stop and take my camera out, there wasn't much to see in this area anyway. Eventually I decided to go underneath the station and come out the other side, and suddenly it clicked. I knew where I was... I had finally crept onto my map. So I bowled it off in the general direction of some landmarks and finally felt like putting my camera to good use.

Heres a two-mile long stretch of Graffiti and some Skyscrapers:



Here's a closer look at Landmark Tower, the largest Skyscraper in Japan.


The I decided to have a go on the Cosmo Clock 21, a giant ferris wheel (the largest in the world apparently). On the side of the wheel is a large digital clock which displays the current time and is controlled by the turning of the wheel, which takes exactly 15 minutes to complete one rotation.



After this, not that I really had the legs for it, I decided to head towards town and wander about. I came across the baseball stadium and managed to sneak a peak through the gate, even though the stadium was closed.


Then I went insearch of food. Thinking Chinatown would be a good place to start I headed in that direction. Chinatown was nice, and pretty and the smell of the food was enough to set my stomach growling, but the prices were extorionate. 1500yen for a bowl of noodles. Thats 6 quid. I took some snaps and got out of there:


It was getting on a bit and although I had originally planned to make an evening of it and had even found a live music venue, I decided to make my way home and rest my poor, overworked legs, but not before eating. I wandered about on a cheap food mission and eventually found a nice curry house with reasonably priced food and beer on tap.

I ate, I came home, I slept.

Yesterday (the 9th), went by without much activity, but in the evening me and Onder went to a local Japanese Language class run by volunteers and at a grand total of 50yen (20p) per lesson I'll probably go back again.