Casmo hits Japan

Yokohama

Yesterday I went to Yokohama, a city I have already visited years before and enjoyed a lot. I can safely say this time around just as much fun was had, and just as much beauty was found. I’ll start you off with a few pictures:

View from the port of Yokohama. Most beautiful port I have ever seen.

Here by night with a brilliant light display.

Once Kat and I met up with Tatsu, we took the train from Shibuya to Yokohama Chinatown. Chinatown was a neat little place and, I bet due unusually nice weather, also quite crowded. We (Kat) checked out the shops, ate some Nikuman and stopped at a temple:

110% Tourist Style.

After that we strolled down to the harbour to enjoy the views (see pics at beginning). Kat really wanted to go on a roller coaster ride that was close to the harbour, so all three of us went on it. Tatsu isn’t a big fan of them, but we convinced him to try it anyway as it looked relatively mild. The ride was fun and faster than it looked, but Tatsu wouldn’t be able to confirm this because his head was down and eyes closed the whole ride.. haha. Sorry for making you buy that ticket, Tatsu.

We then went shopping a bit in that area and ended up waiting in Starbucks for Tsugumi and Hiroshi to arrive. Once the Manchester gang was reunited, we headed to a nice restaurant close by and had plenty of dishes for our meal.

Ribs! Also had chicken, pizza, rice with meat and salad. Desert was cheesecake and.. some other cake.

And then.. the unexpected happened. Hiroshi called up his girlfriend to come and join us at the restaurant. Until yesterday, I was of the strong opinion that Hiroshi had made up his girlfriend and based or on a manga or some sort of dating simulator game. When she turned up I strongly believed she was an optical illusion.. but once she took my napkin to blow her nose I knew she was the real deal. Here are Toshiko, Hiroshi, Kat and me at said dinner: