Country Info
- Tokyo
- Capital
- Yen (JPY)
- Currency
- 126,771,662
- Population
- JP
- Country Code
Yokohama Slideshow
Yokohama
Travel Blogs from Yokohama, Japan
Yokohama with family and...... Typhoon Fitow
... storm! So much for my travel planning skills... hopefully this will not impact our return trip tomorrow.... On our final day in Japan we spent the majority of it with Hana's sister, husband, and our nieces and nephew. We had a lot of fun ...
Yokohama/Orientation
Aug 9 -11, 05 For these three days, we had to go to YOkohama for a Prefecture JET orientation..we were able to meet most of the other JETS from the A group and the ones that are going on their 2nd year. The first day was boring and hot. We wore our ...
The Hen's strike back!
... two sets of Shinkansen tickets with the JR rail pass at Yokohama station, each time taking over 40 minutes I'd recommend going to Shin-Yokohama station and buying your tickets there. It took Roy and Ian 5 minutes to buy their tickets; in English! So, ...
Another Year!
Well here we are at the end of another year. My third Chirstmas in Japan. It's amazing how time flies! For the most part December was quite quiet. After coming back from Scotland and with Christmas looming, cash was tight. Generally Junya and I ...
Tokyo Daytrips
... of various fish products in the various markets we have visited since. Our final day trip destination was Yokohama. Yokohama has the designation of being Japan@s second largest city. It is so close and so connected to Tokyo that it is included in ...
Konichiwa Hens!
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. ...
Day 20 - A quiet day in Yokohama
... park, but were were basically all too tired and full. We jumped on the train, and got a direct route back to Shin-Yokohama station which is where our hotel is located. After afternoon rests, we walked down to the local "eat street" near ...
Farewell Ceremony
July 12, 2006 Wednesday In the afternoon all of the Jets that are leaving went to Yokohama for a Farewell Ceremony given by the Board of Education. Ema said a few words as a leaving Jet and as PA and than we all received certificates of Appreciation ...
The Land of Plastic Food
... had lunch of hamburgers and fries in the center's eatery (kind of weird beef-like patty). Then we got on the train and went to Yokohama Station just because we had a bit of time and because we could (the beauty of the JR Pass). We tried going outside to ...
Lots of News
... wee thing ever. He's a Shiba ken or in English Shiba Inu. We named him Yamato, which is the old name for Japan. Transalted it means "Big Peace". He's 2 months old but has a slight biting problem. He was quickly toilet trained ...
Safe and Sound
... as shocked as you about it. It's all really suprising, as I've told many of you before these things just don't happen in Japan. It really is horrible, the poor girl was only 23. I keep thinking that I could have made such an innocent ...
Day 19 - Yokohama Zoorasia and Landmark Tower
... Hard Rock Cafe so Veronica could buy 2 more shot glasses, as she did not yet have Yokohama versions. Then we came across a restaurant which ruined my whole evening. Sizzler. The very ...
day one
... Oh well. After lunch we went over to a post office to get money from our accounts and found that my card does not work in Japan, Michael's does. So I'll just transfer money to him and he'll withdraw it for me. All this seems good and well but the actual ...
Konnichiwa
... nbsp;My time in Tokyo was a nice hang out day with my friends. The next morning I went through Yokohama, which is the largest city in Japan, population wise with Tokyo being the second. I sat on a bench for about an hour, trying to be ...
Hawaii Day One
Luke Jones, our assistant academic dean aka "the voice", woke us up this morning over the speaker system blaring a song with the words "welcome to America!" being sung over and over. And while I have had a great time seeing Asia, I could not help ...
"Prom" sign ups
Today I woke up at 5:30 and went to use to telephone in Tymitz Square for a phone interview at 5:45. I am applying to work at two week long women engineering camps being held at Clemson in June and July. I think my interview went well but I ...
Global Studies Exam Day
This morning started with our global studies exam at 9:20am. We are divided into different rooms on the ship based on our ship id number. Our ship id numbers are given out alphabetically and my id is 786. I have to use this number all ...
No class... Picture Day
We had the day off from classes today.... But had to get up for a group photo at 8am. I get to sleep in longer on class days! I rolled out of bed in time for the picture and then stopped by the nurse's station to pick up an antibiotic since I ...
Talent Show
Today was a B day of classes so like usual I had global studies and then physics for mariners. In physics for mariners we had a review for our second and final exam coming up in two days. Afterwards I met up with Caroline and Megan to perform ...
Fish, Electronics, and Baseball
... Japan and it is the second port in Japan that our ship stopped at. The ship left Kobe the second day in Japan and sailed for a day to Yokohama port. We all had the option to either sail with the ship for the two nights and day or to travel in ...
first of nine days back at sea
... the class. Afterwards I grabbed lunch on deck seven and then went back to my room to blog and start studying for global studies. I went to work out around six and then came back to my room to finish some blogs about Japan before heading to ...
The final countdown
Well this is it. A final 20 hours in Yokohama, a chance to say goodbye to the guys at work and to thank Tetsuko and Kotaro for everything. I woke up at 4.30am and Tetsuko drove me to the station to catch my train to the airport. I would love Tetsuko ...
Energy test and getting ready for Hawaii
I woke up early again this morning to finish studying for my physics for mariners class. The test was hard! My professor was a weather forecaster for the Italian military for many years so I had a bad feeling that he would be able to make an ...
Yokohama
... opened to foriegn trade in Japan & it is here that the first warehouses of their type was constructed in Japan. These warehouses, Yokohama Aka Renga Soko, still stand & though maybe renovated they still look impressive sitting boldly in an ...
More Chinese than China
... peaceful but there wasn't much there. We continued on to a large shrine complex with the highest gate in Japan before taking the train to Yokohama, which took 30 minutes. There we headed straight to the manic Chinatown, the largest Chinatown in Japan. It ...
Day 25 - Tempura prawns and the return to Yokohama
... we have been lucky to see more than 2 or 3 (besides ourselves). I'm not sure whether there is something happening in Yokohama today, or in the coming days, to cause the influx, or whether it was purely coincidence. After lunch and a ...
Groundhog Easter
... ; We have classes today so I went to global studies and then physics for mariners before heading to lunch. I finished my blogs about Japan in the early afternoon and then went to work out at 4:30pm. The gym has been very busy recently since a ...
Yokohama
... head (erm wonder why!) Decided that it was a good day to visit Yokohama (also JR Rail passes run out today). Got the train to Yokohama and had a really good walk around, it's a lovely city which we both enjoyed. Not too built up and not too big to get ...
froyo and fellowship
I got up a little early to study for Islam and then when to class to take my test. I went to Energy class later on in the afternoon but we didn't meet for the whole time since Dr. Connetti spoke this morning in global studies. I met up with ...