Today we ventured out to Yokohama, another large city about an hour away from Tokyo. We had heard that Yokohama had quite a large and famous Chinatown, and we really wanted to check that out as well.... Once we arrived in Chinatown, we immediately realized that although similar to NYC's Chinatown, there were two main differences: The first being that this Chinatown was MUCH cleaner than that of New York's, but alas, was much more EXPENSIVE as well (food, shopping, etc!) In fact, it took us awhile just to find a restaurant for lunch that wouldn't cost us over 5,000 yen/person (about $50/person!) After lunch, we did a little sightseeing, shopping, tried some "machine-squeezed packets" of frozen yogurt (very astronaut-like), and checked out a few Chinese temples and shrines in the area. As you can see,
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