Camelot Hotel Yokohama

So sind jetzt in Yokohama - besser gesagt shin-yokohama gelandet. Sehr nett hier, haben allerdings nicht viel davon gesehen, weil wir gleich weiter zum Vereinbarten Treffpunkt mit Bixi und Steffi aufgebrochen sind. Lange gewartet, keine Bixi keine Steffi... <br>Na zum Glück haben wir uns doch noch getroffen! Jaaa im BIG Tokyo sind wir uns praktisch über den Weg gelaufen von einer Brückenbreite zur anderen rübergebr ...

The decision we had to make this morning was whether we were going to make the trek to Hakone, or whether we were just going to have another exploration day. We had a look at the different activities in Hakone, and we decided that 2 days would probably be enough to cover what we want to do there, so we chose to have another quiet day. There is apparently museums and nature walks all around Hakone which could easily take up a few days by themselves, but I ...

... part are very consoiderate of one another. Okay and then from there........woah. I wandered the streets until I got to the giant ferris wheel, then went into some mall and went into the subway station at Minobashu?? I had a little Passmo fiasco and had to pay for a ticket I didnt need but hey the train went to Shibuya....and I was at least familiar with that station so there ya go. I went and bought a spider tripod and a optical mouse for my friend Emi ...

... forward, personal body space means nothing here. 5) If a train guard pushes you onto the train, he's probably trying to help by preventing you from getting a limb trapped into the vice-like doors. 6) On the train, hold onto something or lean against the person next to you, the chances are, they're doing the same thing. 7) Don't talk, it uses up oxygen in the windowless carriage. 8) Don't complain, you bought a ticket now deal with it! On reflection, this rush hour journey ...

... Or maybe eggs were attached to some food or timber, and hatched here. These days with global warming and climate change Yokohama may be just as good as Okinawa for the snake", I offered my guess, off the top of my head. Mr Shirokawa's house was only a few blocks away from where we had met. I was greeted by a middle-aged woman. "The snake photo, the snake photo", Mr S told the woman, removed his shoes ...

... in Japanese, and we didn't laugh when everyone else did, but I guess it was all part of the Japanese experience. This was the first afternoon of rain. It is now two days later and still raining. I guess a typhoon is on it's way. Not to worry, just lots rain here in Tokyo. More about that later. From there we took the metro to our scheduled Shiatsu sessions. It is an ancient "massage ...

... firms if I could work on an ad-hoc basis, and applying for a few embassy jobs (Thailand and Singapore) and a volunteer interpreter on Peaceboat - a three-month voyage 'teaching messages of democracy and peace'. Early this week I had one interview at a cram school. The manager did not like me from the start and told me that I needed to learn the Japanese common customs. He did not like the way I sat, placed my legs. He pointed out that I should ...

... proceed to the Temple on our own using our Frommer's walking tour guide. We first passed a gate with a 200 pound lantern and statutes of Gods on either side to protect the Temple. Suddenly we were in a mass of people with souvenir shops everywhere! There were hundreds of them selling everything from chopsticks to change purses. We ate our way through the festival-like market, trying crispy rice sweets, some kind of fried dough filled with bean paste, more meat on a ...

... probably not the safest situation in the world. I desperation I started asking random people on the street for help finding an ATM. Enter Nishimo, a 20 something Tokyo local who had just finished work at 1am. What followed was the single kindest act that I have ever heard of. In her broken English she led me to three ATMs and tried in vain to get them to accept my card, then nearly an hour later we trudged over a kilometre to the central post office for the ...

... cost like $80 one way... Went to Mt Fuji..... took 3 hours to get there and had to change like 10 trains, including a couple of cable cars and a ropeway (see pics).... even then it was not a good day and we could not really see that much..... Today is a good day and I can see Mt Fuji from my hotel window :) Also went to Tokyo Disneyland..... sooooo not worth it.... has ...