Blogs from Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan, Asia - page 2

Cheguei no Japão, que sensação boa... Tudo limpo, bonito... Mandei minha mala por TakyuBin e fui de trem para casa da minha prima. O marido dela estava me esperando na estação. Esperamos ela chegar, jantamos juntos e ficamos conversando... é, minhas férias do ano passado foram no Japão. Gosto da atmosfera de lá, tudo ser limpo, as pessoas serem educadas, tudo funcionar. Fui comprar algumas coisinhas para viagem na quarta e na quinta e sentir o Japão novamente. Sexta fomos num templo lá perto e a tarde fui encontrar com as minhas amigas japonesas, elas moram em Hiroshima, bem longe de Yokohama (4hs de trem bala) e foram lá especialmente para me encontrar. É muito amor! A tarde formos para o museu do Doraemon e a noite encontramos mais 3 amigos que conhecemos em Vancouver em ... read more

17thMarch – Yokohama Our arrival into Yokohama was pretty spectacular; we had time it right at low tide for the ship to pass under the bridge. We had 6 feet to spare and at 11.30 at night it looked even closer. After the late night, we were ready for our trip to Tokyo. Yokohama is about 18 miles from Tokyo and lies on the Pacific coast of Honshu, the largest Japanese island. The tour was Tokyo Highlights with Japanese lunch. The traffic is something else (I’ll never maon about the traffic in the UK) Into downtown Tokyo for the first temple of the day with its accompanying Shinto shrine. The Senso-ji features a small gold statue of the Goddess of Mercy, two great gates and shops known as Nakamise – shopping was partaken of!!! Onto a ... read more

Way back in August,1990, I went to Japan. Landed at Narita and went to Yokohama by a bus. And my stay at Yokohama is still fresh in my memory. When we flew over Hiroshima and Nagasaki myself and my fellow companion in the plane stood to pay tributes to its victims. I also attended INTECOL, 1990 at Yokohama Prince Hotel. Its majestic view enabled me to see Yokohama Harbour, which looked especially wonderful in night. I also had a chance to call on a very senior scientist Prof MS Swaminathan with whom I sat for some time at Yokohama Prince Hotel. I also visited a monastery close to Tokyo. Its architecture was good and I especially liked its old walls with moss and algae!.The time sense and work culture of Japan touched my soul. I will ... read more

It's been awhile since I updated! It's nearly my birthday, which means I've gotten TWO wonderful birthday packages in the mail that contained FOOD. This is excellent for me, since I am still working off my "you have no money, please be a hobo" lifestyle. I now do not have to buy groceries for several weeks, which is by far the greatest thing that ever could have come via the mail, haha. I finally got a Japanese bank account set up. It was an arduous process, and one that I do not ever wish to repeat, made more difficult by the Japanese insistence that I have a phone number - I do not have a cell phone yet, because THAT IS EXPENSIVE, YO. I don't have the money yet to get one, because I haven't gotten ... read more

This past Monday I decided to take the train to Kamakura to check out the surf breaks along the beach. The waves tend to be on the small side unless they score some swell from a typhoon, much like the U.S. east coast and hurricane season. It was a calm, slightly drizzly day, but there were a few spots breaking in the ankle to knee range, surfable, but I imagine fun really only on a longboard, which is fine by me. I began my beach walk at Shichirigahama station where I stopped in any surf shop I came across to inquire on board rental fees. It was amusing to see that much of the retail items such as t-shirts in the shops had surf spots in California printed all over them. I saw more English in ... read more