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Yokohama Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Yokohama, Japan
Twa cludgies!
... After a year and a half living in each others pockets in was sad to see her head off eventually. Although she's staying in Japan for the now, she's eventually heading back to England to settle down to a Masters and the life of a frumpy Lesbian ...
Mair visitors
... Irish get together? Then, as usual, your random Japanese shows up with broken English and looking to improve cultural relations between Japan and wherever the hell you are from. For some reason the Japanese you meet in Nova have pretty much no idea ...
Day Trip to Yokohama
After a short stop in Atsugi, we check out Yokohama city. It is Japan's second largest, and has the biggest Chinatown. The harbour area is quite nice to walk around, despite the heat and humidity. We ride the huge ferris wheel and do a bit of shopping ...
back tae the grind!
Well, that's it. Holiday's over and back hame again. Hame'lldaeme as the say. I can't complain I've been on more holidays here than I had in 2 years at T-Mobile. Alas the thought of repaying those shift swaps I acquired is enough to drive one nuts! ...
Time to put the washing on!
... to eat. Taxi home and we slept most of the next day. Friday's back to work and normality. I never thought I'd be saying that about Japan! Thanks to everyone who made us feel welcome and either put us up or put up with us. We had a great time and ...
Busy busy busy
... absolutely no time to do them in. I cam to a conclusion within this month. For the first time since I came to Japan ... I hate my job. Life was so much easier when I just went in and went home. Anyways, musn't grumble! Apart from ...
Devotional thought
... preceptorship, I ended up in El Camino College, I ended up in a great nursing program in Cal State Long Beach, I ended up here in Japan, and soon may end up in Hawaii. I am saying this.: You may be uncomfortable at times when you leave your comfort zone, ...
Auld man!
... Japan. That's the problem of getting money off people before the end of the night. People have a tendency to leave without paying. Japan, having a tab system everywhere. It was my birthday and like hell I was being left with a 100.000 Yen/500 GBP ...
Fishy tale
We spent the last two nights at my aunt & uncle's place and she took us to the Aquarium in Enoshima. We took the train (since Chizuko's and my JR Passes had expired, we had to pay :P, but my aunt took care of us :) Since we were a little late getting ...
Festive Season
Again a tad late, however December is not yet over. Most of December was spent in a rather stressed out mode at work. Although I got two new AT's to take over duties at two of my schools, giving me an AT at every school, I was slapped ...
From Japan to China in one easy step
... to have a limited view due to the shitty weather. However, Mum and Dad got a good idea of the size and congestion of Yokohama from what they could see. From there we hopped on the Minato Mirai line and headed down to Motomachi Chukagai, to Chinatown. ...
Cheerio the noo
Friday was a quiet day. Basically involving packing and stuff. We did very very little, before heading off to Yokohama station around 3 o'clock to see my family off on the Narita Express, which they got for free with their JR pass. Anyways, it was sad ...
Earthquake!
... nbsp; I was going to say it's almost as big as a China town but that would be far from the truth, the whole of Yokohama has 3.6M people and that's barely a village in China. Anyway we had a minor earthquake this morning. The hotel lobby wobbled a ...
Visa's and tribulations!
OK so this is going to be quick considering I've got to get to the airport soonish! So what a month. I've pretty much been working a whole month without any time off. Maybe 3 days! So, this whole month I've been at Panic Stations! After 9 months ...
Back to Kyoto and onto Yokohama
... seemed to be some animation in the city center, so we decided to stay and just stroll around. The next day, we went to Yokohama, Japan's second biggest city. We started off with a tour of Chinatown, then a walk on the promenade by the sea. Simon insisted ...
Pairty!
So here we are again, another month and not much has happened recently. So let me re-cap on the month. Well you all know that I moved into the new place, two toilets and all, and when last we talked I was preparing for the housewarming. As usual I ...
"ú-{OEê'ÍAARRGGHHH!
So I have tonight and that's about it to finish of my coursework for this stupid bloody course I in my infinite wisdom thought it would be a good idea to take. I am completely stuck as really who says things like "the person who called this morning was ...
Another Day Another Birthday
... Again our original plan and what we ended up doing turned out to be rather different. I had originally booked a cruise out in Yokohama bay as a birthday treat, both for my Mum and my sister. However the weather decided not to play with us and should ...
Toyopet!
We spent most of the day with my aunt before we went back to my cousin's. It was spent mostly shopping, first at a department store and then at Costco. Before the shopping, though, my aunt had to take her car in for a minor repair so she took it to the ...
The day we left Tokyo for Yokohama
... watching the view. Seeing as we had to meet up with the rest around 8, we decided to go see Yokohama's Chinatown. It's the biggest Chinatown of Japan, so naturally, we had to visit. :) The moment we arrive, Chinatown is marked by this HUGE elaborately ...
Japan
... had to be on the ship for a day between the ports which sucked a little because most people were traveling independently between Yokohama and Kobe, and we didn’t fill out the independent travel forms since we didn’t know what our plans were. ...
Workin it!
... the rest of the day. Although it never stopped ud doing about 4 100 Yen pu-re Ka-ra, those wee sticker things you get in Japan. Fun Fun Fun. Then it was a sad goodbye to Em's as she headed home for proper TV, food and miserable weather and it seems ...
Yokohama
... of these. The harbour area is very beautiful though at night and there are tons of couples gathered there -- indeed, Yokohama struck me as Japan's city of love. We ended up spending most of our time in the Yokohama Chinatown. It may sound strange ...
Talent Show
Hey there, Sorry, for being so slow with the pictures lately. I have been busy with work and hanging out with people before everyone leaves in a month. THe last few months have been confusing since I have a mix of emotions going through me now that I ...
Mair Drinking!
OK, so again the plans went wrong! We planned on a quite day in doing nothing and although we ended up having a day in, it wasn't so quiet. Carol and Sarah ended up popping over for a cup of tea, and when have you ever known the Scots and Irish to have ...
Last day in Japan - Yokohama
... 2pm) we headed back tot he ship to have a long nap. which was lovely and much needed. We checked out of Japan. The visitor's process in Japan is very involved (face-to-face check in/checkout, temperature taking, finger-printing, photo ...
Bye Bye Yokohama
Well this is it. I'm leaving Japan for good but first I have to see some more of the country. So I have 2 weeks travelling around parts unknown. ...
Day 18 - Yokohama, a city of convenience
... trips would be costing us about $150 - $220 per ticket, and more if we chose to reserve seats. Departed at Yokohama, and walked the 3 blocks west to the hotel. We checked our baggage and walked back towards the train station to find ...