Yokohama!!

Today John and I decided to go visit the city of Yokohama. Yokohama is the second largest city in Japan next to Tokyo. We took the trains there and the travel time was about 30 minutes. As always, I'm doing one of my infamous photo dumps to show you all the things we saw today. We walked for miles and miles and I am pretty tired, so hopefully I can hold it together to make a coherent post. 

Nissan Global Headquarters. This is cool because this is the place where they carve designs into clay. We're talking about the some of the world's leading engineers work right here! They have a small museum inside, but it looked rather dull if you're not into cars and energy conserving cars.

See that tall tower way off in the distance? That's the Yokohama Landmark Tower. It's the tallest building in Japan. That's where John and I are headed.

Yokohama has a large ferris wheel. It takes about 10 minutes to make a full turn. It's not only a ferris wheel, but also a clock. It used to be the world's largest ferris wheel.

Remember my previous post about food? There's a Hard Rock Cafe in Yokohama. Also a McD's, which is where we ate a small lunch.

This is the basement area below the large tower.

Looking up at the Yokohama Landmark Tower.

The Yokohama Landmark Tower also boasts one of the world's fastest elevators. It goes so fast your ears pop on the way up. John and I took turns jumping in the elevator noting how heavy we felt when we jumped because of the speed of the elevator. The second picture is the ceiling of the elevator because I thought it was cool.

We made it up to the 70th floor of the Tower, which holds a lounge. I had a glass of wine and John tried the Japanese scotch. We took lots of pictures from the lounge's viewing deck. The Tower also contains a five-star hotel. 

This was a park outside of the Tower and along the waterfront.

I just thought this was funny. We didn't stop here. In Japan, it's common for bars to have strange names, like they just drew an English word out of a hat. Want to make up a Japanese bar name? First, take the word "Bar", now reach out and touch the nearest object on your right. The name of your Japanese bar is now "Bar [whatever you touched]" Mine's Bar Phone.

One of the attractions in Yokohama is it's large Chinatown. There were so many shops and restaurants!! SO MANY!! Both John and I bought little key chains for less than $1.



So, there you have it, our day in Yokohama. We didn't get a chance to get on the ferris wheel, but we'll definitely be back. Today we just wanted to have an easy day outing. Nothing crazy or expensive. Next, we'll go up to Tokyo...