Wednesday, June 08, 2011

This is Yokohama

Yokohama, April 2011
Heather and I headed to Tokyo for Golden Week 2011 (from April 29th to May 5th), but I'm only getting around to posting the first batch of photos from the trip now. As I've, apparently, swung my fickle/obsessive interest set out of writing and into photography, let's call this a Photo Essay of the Yokohama leg of our trip...



...no. That sounds unbearably pretentious. Let's call this the coolest pictures I managed to take in Yokohama.

First off, Heather's friend Rachi's awesome, American-themed café on the way to Yokohama. There was so much cheese and bread and meat on the menu that I thought I was going to die of joy.
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Apparently she gets a lot of foreigners in.
Yokohama, April 2011

Next, Yokohama proper:

If you meet a Japanese person on the street, they are guaranteed to possess at least this one English sentence:
Yokohama, April 2011
Why? I haven't a clue in the world.
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This guy was a pimp, and he wanted everyone to know it.
Yokohama, April 2011
I'm pretty sure he owned both of these, and the one in the back had the entire inside console/dash studded with rhinestones. Also, the Lamborghini logos on the thing. It was a crime against nature.
Yokohama, April 2011

Heather, being lovely.
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Osanbashi was once the main pier where imports came into Yokohama and moved on to the rest of Japan. It is now the most architecturally interesting cruise ship terminal/park/boardwalk ever.
Yokohama, April 2011
Not a bad view, either.
Yokohama, April 2011
And, of course, you can't hit Yokohama without hitting China Town:
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