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Japan Day Number 4 Yokohama and our Anniversary
By stunder | May 19, 2008
Today was our Anniversary so Alicia and I hit the JR line and decided to head out to Yokohama. It was a bit overcast but we weren’t going to allow it to mess with our trip. Alicia planned this whole day out herself and it really turned out great. I love getting out to this coast side town and checking out what the city looked like and some of its history.
The reason we went to Yokohama was to check out their China town area. It was a very large area and there was an enterance right when we left the train station. Before we went into China town we decided to cross over into Motomachi Street in Yokohama to give it a look. It was a just starting to rain but it wasn’t going to stop us. Motomachi St. is kind of like the Ginza Area with high end stores but without the high rise street.
I didn’t know that Alicia had more for me than just the shopping district.
We get to the end of Motomachi St. to a long set up stairs that take you up to Minato-No-Mieru-Oka Park. This lovely park overlooked Yokohama’s port and some of the city. This photo was taken by a very nice old man who wanted to do Alicia and I a favor 
The web album shows a bunch more photos of this area. Up in the Minato-No-Mieru-Oka park there is a rose garden that the Yokohama retirement crowd likes to visit and do drawings and water colors of the views. Actually seeing all of the people practicing their drawing and painting It made me come back home and dig out my drawing/art tools. From this trip it has inspired me to start drawing and doing a bunch of other things I have been holding off on.
Here is the fountain in Minato-No-Mieru-Oka park.
It started raining on us pretty good by this time so we ducked under some trees at The Yokohama Forigen Cemetary. Which wasn’t really open for much viewing but this is where Forigeners (US and UK) in this cemetary. Once the rain kind of broke we made our way done a couple of long back streets to The China Town area. We then found a great restaurant with really good noodles and food for our lunch.
We ended up at the Harbor where the Hikawa Maru YokoHama is docked for tours. This is a great cruse ship that used to do trips from Yokohama to Seatle, WA before WWII. It was used as a medical ship in the war.
So we got a view of these huge “Worlds Biggest” Ferris Wheel from the quick boat trip (the Sea Bass) We hopped off of the boat and made our way to Cosmo World where the ferris wheel was located.
Then we had to take a ride on the Ferris Wheel of course.
So we made our way back to Yokohama station and heading back to Ginza. We had to get back to Ginza because tomorrow is Mt. Fuji
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