Tokyo Trip Day 7: 21 November 2007, Wednesday.
We went out of Central Tokyo, to the Yokohama (横浜) area. It was once a thriving port, one of the most important in Japan's history, now a cosmopolitan city with a sizeable foreign community.
We started our day from the furthest eastern part, where we alighted from Ishikawacho station, and walked down Motomachi Street, a shopping street from prewar days.
We crossed over to reach Japan's largest Chinatown, where there are many streets, including a Hongkong street, Canton Street etc. But we didn't see many ethnic Chinese running businesses at Chinatown. Or perhaps they are ethnic Chinese borned in Japan and speaks only Japanese?
There's a temple here too.
We had our only Chinese cuisine in Japan.We left Chinatown and walked westwards. Below is the Yokohama's graceful Bay Bridge.
Yokohama was a busy thriving port.
See the pink tower behind? This is Marine Tower, a steel lighthouse. Standing at 106m, it is the Tallest Lighthouse in the World.
These red buildings were the warehouses used when Yokohama was a busy port.
We headed off to Minato Mirai 21 (MM21), which is supposed to be a future 21st century city, built on reclaimed land, with "state-of-the-art waste disposal and heating sytems".
We shopped a bit at World Porters. Thenafter we passed by an amusement park, which was deserted. The Cosmo Clock 21 is a ferris wheel just 3m shorter than the one we took at Odaiba, and is currently the 11th tallest in the world.
Sun-setting at 4:30pm. The tall building here is the Landmark Tower, the Tallest Building in Japan, at 296m.
This exhibition ship is part of a Maritime Museum.
Quite a blur picture, but just to show that the-thing-you-use-to-refill-tanks are hanging from the ceiling.
