Blogs from Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan, Asia - page 5

Salut a vous tous, cest Isabelle! En cette premiere journe au japon, jai lhonneur de rester a la maison... he oui, on dirait bien que je suis malade! (je vais vous epargner les details) les deux autres sont alles magasiner un peu en allant porter mariko au train pour son examen. moi je reste seule (volontairement) avec lordi alors je vais en profiter pour vous ecrire un peu. un trajet de 9heures davion jusqua tokyo apres avoir fait 5h30 davion jusqua vancouvert, cest long!!! Les films etait bien ordinaires, mais comme l ny avait pas grand chose a faire, on en a quand meme regarde plus quun. (les rois du patins et les fous de la moto. on a boude le masque... en alant a vancouvert, il y avait la fracture... les filles lont regarde, moi ... read more

So. First update. So I am staying in Yokohama for a while. I don't think i am even ready for Tokyo. Yokohama is a very happy city. Not as lively as Tokyo, but enough for me! I read about a city just 20 minutes away from Yokohama station called Kamakura. I read up on the history. It used to be capital of Japan for a while. Due the its historical and artistic importance, Kamakura was spared what most of Japan got during world war two. The most famous sight in Kamakura is the Daibutsu (this means Big Buddha!). I couldn't find the damn thing! I kept getting lost and i don't speak Japanese at all really. ah. but i did get to see a shinto wedding, which was beautiful. I paid 300 yen to get into ... read more

I met with Yuka again on Sunday- she's way too fun dernit! This time I got to feel special by finding faster directions thru the Japanese train system from her house to mine. *dance* Her original route was going to take like 1.5-2 hours, but I gave her one that was a little over an hour.. 1.5 tops. ^-^v Anyways, she came over to my place so we could watch the 2nd Death Note movie, which I still hadn't seen yet- I was waiting to watch it with her. It was pretty interesting. Unfortunately they didn't finish the storyline (it would've required another 2 movies likely..), but they way they put the ending together, somebody who hasn't read the manga/seen the anime wouldn't suspect it should've gone longer, so that's good. The point in the ... read more

Thought it was about time to finish off Japan and get this blog up and running again! My last 2 weeks in Japan were great. The weather finally warmed up above 15 degrees which made it easier to get out and explore. I checked out Yokohama, Japan's second biggest city behind Tokyo. It's on the coast about a 20 min train ride from Omori. There's a massive stadium there where the soccer world cup final was played a few years back. There's also a Chinatown, apparently one of the biggest in the world but it didn't look that much bigger than ours back home. I tried these steamed dim sim type things in Chinatown from a shop that had a massive crowd of locals. I thought it must of been good if the locals were ... read more

小田原, Odawara An hour by train from our hotel brought us to the charming town of Odawara. Famed for its famous Castle (小田原城), this place is extremely lovely every spring when the sakuras within the castle grounds are in full bloom. And for 2 weeks, fellow Japanese would gather their picnic mats under the sakura trees to admire the beauty from Mother nature. I’m impressed that despite a scarcity of waste bins, no rubbish would be “conveniently” left behind after the picnickers have left! I’ve only seen sakuras on TV and on postcards. To be able to see them happening right before our every eyes was great. J started collecting the flower petals and I was taking picture perfect memories of them. Nearby, the elephants and the red face monkeys were also capturing our attention. ... read more