Yokohama is half an hour down the road from Tokyo. We thought this would be our first use of the Shinkansen bullet train but alas a regular train was our transport. Yokohama is basically the port town to Tokyo. It's a very nice place too. Clean, friendly and a lot quieter than Tokyo. There are strong ties with San Diego here as it's directly across the water......a fair way but still. It explains some of the warehouses around the area, they're definitely more Western and standout a lot. There is a cracking pier and great viewing point over the city and back onto Tokyo. All curved wood and smooth grass, with views onto a similar(but newer) style of Golden Gate bridge.
Baseball is huge in Japan, it's on TV everyday, and Yokohama have a major team with a pretty large stadium and nice grounds around it. I like this place, it's more chilled if you want to get away from it and the sun was seriously beating down when we were there.
The city part of Yokohama is also quite impressive, they're mad on huge Ferris wheels and have them in every town city! There's also a theme park with roller coasters and a bizarre 'European' village. Strange stuff but good for the kids I'm sure.
I'll be honest that the only reason I'd even heard of Yokohama is because they make tyres but it turned out to be quite a cool place. It, apparently, has the largest Chinatown in the world but as we'd already been to China we weren't that bothered. However, this Chinatown isn't quite like China. It was clean.
As this is the busiest period of our trip we started hitting a city a day and got pretty hectic. Yokohama, definitely worth a visit. Time to move on!
Baseball is huge in Japan, it's on TV everyday, and Yokohama have a major team with a pretty large stadium and nice grounds around it. I like this place, it's more chilled if you want to get away from it and the sun was seriously beating down when we were there.
The city part of Yokohama is also quite impressive, they're mad on huge Ferris wheels and have them in every town city! There's also a theme park with roller coasters and a bizarre 'European' village. Strange stuff but good for the kids I'm sure.
I'll be honest that the only reason I'd even heard of Yokohama is because they make tyres but it turned out to be quite a cool place. It, apparently, has the largest Chinatown in the world but as we'd already been to China we weren't that bothered. However, this Chinatown isn't quite like China. It was clean.
As this is the busiest period of our trip we started hitting a city a day and got pretty hectic. Yokohama, definitely worth a visit. Time to move on!
Above, the Yokohama ferry terminal......it beats Dover.
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Shame on you Gav for not remembering that Yokohama was the venue for the 2002 World Cup final!
I can barely remember what day it is let alone when or where the last World Cup was!
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