木曜日, 6月 01, 2006
Yesterday we went to Yokohama, that's about a 30 min train ride from where we live in Tokyo- to the south east. They have a port so they do a lot of international trade there.
The first thing we did was visit the ramen museum. It was pretty terrible, but the gift shop was funny. The museum was basically 2 basements of ramen shops set in the style of the 1940's during ww2. the different resturants had differnt styles of ramen depending on where in japan they came from.
now... the gift shop.
ok, i look really stupid, but look: giant ramen.
this one was as big as me!
and then they had a thing where you could make your own ramen. You buy an empty cup for 3 bucks and then color it. after that they put noodles, the flavor broth of your choice, and 4 toppings. I made vegetable cup noodles. wheee.
then they shrink wrap it.
on my ramen it says "i (heart) ramen" and has a picture of ramen on the other side, plus the cup noodle logo. it's beautiful....ish....
in the gift shop they had ramen ocarinas! ha.
and random mugs...
then we went to the tallest tower in japan: the Landmark Tower. It was 10 bucks to go up but it was really awesome, we could sorta see tokyo from there. it was foggy in the distance but it looked rally cool. The tower is 296 meters tall and has the viewing deck on floor 69. The elevator ride to the floor was about 10 times faster than the ride int eh chem/phys building to the 4th floor... btu then agan, the elevator holds the world record for being the fastest. it had a little speedometer inside and it hit about 300meters/min at one point.
the view of the yokohama port from one side of the tower
and here was what it looked like when you just looked down:
then we exited the tower and they deposited us in a mall. it had way too many american stores. like build a bear (in katakana), and mangia mangia- that italian place there was also this odd sculpture that looked like a roller coaster outside. i thought it looked pretty awesome.
then we went on a boat ride around the port- it was pretty but meh, the coast was kind of boring after a while...
here's a bridge.
oh, and we took the poke-boat because it was the next one to leave. Poke-boat, I choose you!
ok, that's the pretty bit of skyline.
pokeboat
random art made of seatrains
then we walked to china town from the port.
um... what country are we in again?...
i don't think i'm going to comment on that one....
directions:
china town was cool, but i didn't have enough cash on me to buy any random souvineers. they had some pretty teapots
ooh, a dragon! (they were everywhere)
ok, they had hats that i really wanted to buy just because they were... well.. look!
(they also had traditional hats but they weren't as random as having a ton of red army hats)
Panda matches! who would ever want to hurt the little pandas?!
the view of one block of china town... oh, and if you can't tell, the lettering is in chinese, not japanese... i figured i'd point it out to those not familar with either language
fish stone
yay, then we went back to tokyo, and I slept, got up early, and did a tonnnnnnnnn of homework. yay!
[fin.]
The first thing we did was visit the ramen museum. It was pretty terrible, but the gift shop was funny. The museum was basically 2 basements of ramen shops set in the style of the 1940's during ww2. the different resturants had differnt styles of ramen depending on where in japan they came from.
now... the gift shop.
ok, i look really stupid, but look: giant ramen.
this one was as big as me!
and then they had a thing where you could make your own ramen. You buy an empty cup for 3 bucks and then color it. after that they put noodles, the flavor broth of your choice, and 4 toppings. I made vegetable cup noodles. wheee.
then they shrink wrap it.
on my ramen it says "i (heart) ramen" and has a picture of ramen on the other side, plus the cup noodle logo. it's beautiful....ish....
in the gift shop they had ramen ocarinas! ha.
and random mugs...
then we went to the tallest tower in japan: the Landmark Tower. It was 10 bucks to go up but it was really awesome, we could sorta see tokyo from there. it was foggy in the distance but it looked rally cool. The tower is 296 meters tall and has the viewing deck on floor 69. The elevator ride to the floor was about 10 times faster than the ride int eh chem/phys building to the 4th floor... btu then agan, the elevator holds the world record for being the fastest. it had a little speedometer inside and it hit about 300meters/min at one point.
the view of the yokohama port from one side of the tower
and here was what it looked like when you just looked down:
then we exited the tower and they deposited us in a mall. it had way too many american stores. like build a bear (in katakana), and mangia mangia- that italian place there was also this odd sculpture that looked like a roller coaster outside. i thought it looked pretty awesome.
then we went on a boat ride around the port- it was pretty but meh, the coast was kind of boring after a while...
here's a bridge.
oh, and we took the poke-boat because it was the next one to leave. Poke-boat, I choose you!
ok, that's the pretty bit of skyline.
pokeboat
random art made of seatrains
then we walked to china town from the port.
um... what country are we in again?...
i don't think i'm going to comment on that one....
directions:
china town was cool, but i didn't have enough cash on me to buy any random souvineers. they had some pretty teapots
ooh, a dragon! (they were everywhere)
ok, they had hats that i really wanted to buy just because they were... well.. look!
(they also had traditional hats but they weren't as random as having a ton of red army hats)
Panda matches! who would ever want to hurt the little pandas?!
the view of one block of china town... oh, and if you can't tell, the lettering is in chinese, not japanese... i figured i'd point it out to those not familar with either language
fish stone
yay, then we went back to tokyo, and I slept, got up early, and did a tonnnnnnnnn of homework. yay!
[fin.]
