Yokohama, Japan Travel Blogs

Arriving in Yokohama
Jan 8, 2009 (13 photos)

Seeing land again was a good feeling. Actually, we came in at night so you could see the glow of Tokyo way before we would have been able to see the land at daylight. Once the boat hit Chikura we started ripping wires and cutting zip ties making ...

It never rains but it pours
Sep 5, 2007 (10 photos)

... a Typhoon was on it's way and today's weather was not going to be favourable. So I went back to bed for another hour! I got into Yokohama at around lunch time and stored my bag in a coin locker. To be honest, I don't have a great deal to say ...

Cultural Participation
Mar 22, 2005 (1 photos)

... am still clueless about. To the surprise of no one but myself, it was a perfect irasshaimase (ie welcome) to Japan. A more tranquil practice involves going to izakaya in the evenings. These are sort of traditional Japanese hostelries where you take off ...

Masking Reality
Apr 6, 2005 (3 photos)

... feat of bad planning, I only managed to see two of them. Still, they were well worth the short journey from Yokohama. The most popular attraction in Kamakura is the Tsurugaoka Hachiman shrine (below), dedicated to the victory of a local warlord over ...

Finally seeing the Rising Sun
Mar 4, 2005 (3 photos)

... off, I set foot in the Land of the Rising Sun ready to conquer. Er, and teach. First things first. I live in Yokohama, Japan's second largest city and a main port for Tokyo. Although Yokohama is a distinct entity, it has also been incorporated into the ...

Language Barriers
May 18, 2005 (5 photos)

... hot baths, or onsen. These are natural hot springs, bubbling up from the ever-present volcanic maelstrom just below Japan's fragile crust. Custom dictates that they are strictly single-sex communal affairs and that, moreover, you must remain naked while ...

Yokohama & Kamakura
Jul 10, 2008 (16 photos)

Ryan and I had a great dinner last night. We decided to walk down the little side streets in our neighborhood here in Yokohama. We were definitely NOT in a tourist area. We knew that whichever place we picked would not have any English menus and they would ...

Yokohama, a Fishing village and Tokyo
Jul 13, 2008 (17 photos)

... and I had a very nice weekend. On Saturday we went with Ryan's boss's family to a little fishing village about an hour from Yokohama. We went shopping in the fish market there and saw some pretty cool dead fish and other things we could not identify. For ...

Japan!
Jul 7, 2008 (18 photos)

... Japanese, so who knows. :) We live about two minutes from the main attaction area in Yokohama. A beautiful waterfront with one of the largest ferris wheels in the world. I cannot wait to ...

Exploring Yokohama
Jul 9, 2008 (20 photos)

... around after he gets out of work. My mission is to find cool places to eat. So, here are some things I have learned about Japan so far. When waiting at a traffic light no one will cross the street until the sign tells you to walk. Even when there is ...

Karaoke in Tokyo
Jul 15, 2008 (9 photos)

... together. The group included my cousin Tara and her buddy who married a Japanese girl! He is now living in Yokohama with her.  Tara had come to Japan to visit them. Kevin's girlfriend, Aki showed up and so did this British guy Matt who is friends with ...

Yoroshiku Onegaishimasu
May 12, 2006 (2 photos)

After letting them have a long lie, I got them up and we headed down to Yokohama to buy our tickets for the Shinkansen to Hiroshima and Kyoto the following weekend. The train service in Japan may be efficient, however the bureaucracy in Japan is ten times ...

Hangover Central
May 14, 2006

Today consisted of TV and sleep! Junya took the day off work and we ended up heading to Center Minami to have some curry. Back home and bed as it'll be up early tomorrow!

Akimashite Omedeto Gozaimasu
Jan 31, 2006

-¾'¯'Ü'µ'Ä'¨'ß'Å'Æ'²'´'¢'Ü'· Happy New Year to you all! OK I know that it's really late, but I've been quite lazy of late. I know you would expect that I would have a lot of news, due to this being late. However, I've been doing pretty much nothing. Hogmany ...

February the second month!
Feb 28, 2006

Another quick one. A boring month, yet again, apart from Junya's birthday on the 21st. For his birthday we went down to Hakejima Sea Paradise to the aquarium down there. If you've been reading this for a while you'll see a pattern forming here when it ...

Shopping , Curry and Karaoke
May 25, 2006 (5 photos)

... I digress! We spent the day sitting eating curry and walking around until the clouds started to come in and it was back to Yokohama and the comforts of home. That night was a different story. That night we decided to head down to Karaoke with Sarah, ...

One Week One Day
Mar 17, 2008 (9 photos)

... decided to make videos to post on this blog. I made a video that is about two and a half minutes chronicling the strangeness of Japan and all the tourism we did. Michael's video will focus on the work we are charged to do here and will probably be up soon ...

Late update
Nov 30, 2006 (5 photos)

... to update you.  Well, erm ... Oh I had a birthday.  Yes, on the 26th of Novenmber, my 4th official birthday in Japan, I turned 27!  Ohya!  Painful!  Now I'm starting to feel old.  Mainly when I think back to when I first came ...

Hisashiburi
Sep 1, 2006

OK so it's been a while since I update this and you're all probably wondering what's happened to me. Well let's recap. Last time I posted I was stressing out over Japanese. I sorted that out by deferring my exam until March next year. As a result I'm ...

Another Month
Sep 9, 2005

... travelogue, fingers crossed. Well that's about it, I can promise you that my travelogue at the end of September will be just as boring. However stay tuned for the end of October, which may include Japan, Hong Kong, UAE, Scotland, England and maybe more!

Yokohama - What's there...?
Dec 3, 2005 (10 photos)

... there? Basically not much, but it is a big city right next to Tokyo. I think they make tyres... We arrive din Yokohama on recommendation from some random boys who Dina met in the hostel in Tokyo. Having got there, we found some cheapish accommodation ...

Scramble!
May 20, 2006

... the train at 8:55. At least that's what I thought! lol It wasn't until we were on the Subway heading for Shin Yokohama station that we had a look at the tickets only to realise that our Shinkansen (Bullet Train) was 4 minutes earlier, which meant that ...

Back hame again again!
Mar 3, 2004 (5 photos)

... when I was in Scotland. So another brief update of 6 months. I moved in May from Nakgawa to the centre of Yokohama, Sakuragicho. Summer was hot!!! "Officially" got together with Junya Was dragged my Emma to every fireworks event in the the ...

Quick Entry
Mar 21, 2008

... there is always 1 or 2 kids who may be a little rude. I mean it's ok though cause kids tend to be blunt. But here in Japan, all the kids are taught manners so well. They really show a lot of respect. Haha so they told us to sing songs and we didn't ...

Yokohama (as Fuji failed)
Nov 23, 2008 (1 photos)

... us Brits do well, we gave up and decided to head for Yokohama which was our back up plan. Yokohama was about 1hr from where we were, and is Japan's second largest city just around the bay from Tokyo itself. We emerged from the station to see the ...

Rules for survival in Japan!
Mar 14, 2008 (18 photos)

... FAST! Yes they really do. They are practically jogging around. We experienced this when we went to the busy train station in Yokohama. It's crazy! 5. Japanese people tend to look down when they walk. BEWARE: They do not look so you can have a collision. ...

Konichiwa Hens!
May 11, 2006 (4 photos)

Well it was up early and down to Yokohama station to meet the family who were due into Yokohama Station around 10am, from Narita. At 10 we met up and headed on the subway back to Nakagawa and ma hoose! After a quick sleep it was out to Bikuri Sushi. Mum ...

Early St. Patrick's Parade
Mar 11, 2006 (18 photos)

... you wear Green or you might get pinched. And Happy Birthday to my sister, Sarah. I went to a St. Patrick's Parade in Yokohama on Motomachi Street, a big shopping street and close to Chinatown with Aya, a recent graduate from Yamato Nishi. Aya lived in ...

Boil me meat why don't you!
Sep 18, 2006 (4 photos)

The next day I woke up about 12. By the time I woke up Roy and Ian had left and headed down to Yokohama for some souvenir shopping. Although I never got to spend the day with them I was glad to rest as I had 4 days off yet hadn't done my usual nothing! LOL ...

Home again!
Oct 2, 2004 (10 photos)

... has been spent working and on the very odd occasion drinking or at least socialising. I have however quit somking for well over a month now. As you can imagine I didn'spend long in Yokohama before I got restless and had to have another wee break!