Back in May, when the girls were at school on Saturday because sports day was postponed, Steve and I decided to trip it out to Yokohama together. Yokohama is the port city on the south side of Tokyo Bay and is well known for being "China Town". I'd been there before with my homestay family over twenty years ago and had had some of the best Chinese food I'd ever eaten. Keen to go back!
The train ride was long, and we made it more complicated (but not longer) by progressively jumping onto different trains spontaneously, so there were a stack of unecssacary changes. I still find it fun to just ride around on the fast and well timed trains of Tokyo though, so even that was a highlight.
The rainy cold weather was not. When we arrived in Yokohama we regretted not wearing raincoats instead of taking the umbrellas, because the wind was terrible. We did some walking around, mostly for me to take photos of the pokemon manhole covers, and ended up down by the water. There was an impressive rose garden (which would have been much more lovely if it were not raining) and a triathlon was being run as well.
No lovely view of the bay though, since it was so rainy. So we walked back through China town and stopped for a thirteen course banquet for lunch. Delicious!
We took a train a couple of stations up, walked through a shopping area (to avoid the rain) randomly came across this DeLorean promoting the Back to the Future musical.
And took fun photos in the Snoopy store.
Then we braved the rain once again to visit the Cup Noodle Museum, which was interesting and cool. The guy who invented cup noodles was still working at 95 when he finally cracked instant noodles that can be eaten in space. Steve approved.
We had some very interesting (should I say questionable?) beers at a brewery, while we watched the rain do more rainy-ness and then jumped on the train home again.
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