You hear about this city mentioned in many shows and movies. I've come to find out that this city does a lot of importing and exporting. Yokohama being a seaside city, the nice cool ocean breeze was a different pace to the concrete jungle of Tokyo. Now the distance from Yokohama to Tokyo is not that far. It's like going from Downtown San Diego to Oceanside. At this point of the trip, my buddy and I have come to start taking advantage of maps instead of wondering around. So the first thing we hit up in this city is Yokohama Stadium. Baseball is pretty big there, unfortunately I wasn't able to attend one. But that just gives me another reason to come back to this town. Since cars isn't a big thing, the stadium was surrounded by a park and not a parking lot. Which is definitely a good thing. So the area looked nice. Granted it wasn't a big park, but still it was cool seeing green surrounding a stadium instead of asphalt.
After seeing the stadium, we headed towards the "bay area" of the city. Now I really wanted to check out this statue of the water god that was mentioned in the guidebook. Upon arriving at the statue, we come to discover that the statue was donated by San Diego. So it was a piece of our home placed in their home. The statue was given to them as a sign of good relations between the US and Japan. This whole area was beautiful, being from a town surrounded by beaches. Seeing the ocean reminded me of home.
After being reminiscent, we hit up the one thing that we kept hearing from locals about Yokohama. That Yokohama had one of the biggest Chinatown's that I've ever seen. I know I know, I know what your thinking. Why are you visiting a Chinatown in Japan. I was a little hesitant to check this out. But this place was huge, I mean really huge. Not like a block like the Chinatown in London. This was like a small suburb size in a big city. It was pretty cool checking this place out. There were temples, souvenier shops, meat buns and roasted chestnuts all over the place. If you ever wanted to ride a rickshaw, this place has it. If your looking for a martial arts outfit, this place has it. And you know its pretty cool to check out Chinatowns all over the world, so far I hit up Chinatowns in Japan, England, France and the US.
That pretty much sums up the day. We got back from that city around 7:00 PM. Had some dinner and just called it a day.
Til next time.
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