The view from my windows was refreshing.
Waited till 12 to go and ring Saurav Raul in the other building. Saurav is a planner from TICB also working for the Habshan Project. As I imagined he has just got up. We agreed to start at 12.20. I went for a stroll and came back to collect him at 12.25. We went to Yokohama Station searching for a tourist bureau. It was a very nice day. Slightly cloudy skies, but temperature around 10 and rather sunny.
The Yokohama station is an impressive building teeming with people constantly moving.
The tourist office did not have much information. What we were asking them was whether there is a tour from Yokohama to Tokyo and whether there is a train after the new year celebrations from Tokyo to Yokohama. We left hoping to find the information from the net. Walked to Jack mall where there is a good electronics supermarket. After spending an hour there, Saurav got tired and wanted to go back. I decided to continue and went into a Japanese restaurant there. I ordered a beer and some food from pictures. What I got was some fried chicken, some salad and some rice with soup.
Then I headed through Land Mark Plaza to Sakuragicho station. It was 3.30 PM. I was supposed to meet Saurav at 4.45. I had 1 hour to spend. Just then the touristic bus called "Akaikutsu" came up to take passengers. On the spur of the moment, I got on it and started the journey around Yokohama. It is a round trip, coming back to the same place it started. I thought it will take max 1 hour and I will be back around 4.30. But it only reached China Town at 4.30 PM! So I changed plans and got down there because I would miss the appointment with Saurav anyway.
Walked around China town which is supposed to be the largest China town anywhere in the world and finally ended up in the fashion district called MOTOMACHI. Only pedestrian roads, lit with special illumination and with all fashion labels having their shops there, Motomachi is a good area to have an evening walk.
Akai Kutsu Bus
Motomachi, The fashion street of Yokohama
Ilumination in Motomachi
Entrance to Motomachi, dressed up for New Year
One of the gates to China Town
A view of China Town
Finally, by 5.30, I was tired and wanted to get back. Luckily I find a bus stop near by and got on one. I returned to the station again and took a couple of snaps of the Nippon Maru, the ship now acting as a museum. I headed off home from there dropping into the Tesco supermarket at the basement of our building to buy a couple of beers and milk.
Nippon Maru
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