Yokohama

Today I went to Yokohama, about 30 minutes outside of Tokyo. I decided to travel light today and only took my little "point and shoot" camera with me. Unfortunately I only managed to get a few pictures before the battery died. The battery indicator quickly went from fully charged to completely dead. I will have to watch this in the future to see if maybe there is something wrong with the battery.

Anyways, technical problems aside, I decided to visit Yokohama's Chinatown which is supposedly Japan's largest. It was amusing to go from hearing Japanese almost exclusively to hearing Mandarin and Cantonese being spoken. There were plenty of shops and restaurants and quite a few people out shopping on a warm and sunny day.





They must sell some good steamed dumplings.






Temple dedicated to the Chinese god of prosperity.




After walking through Chinatown I headed to the Yokohama harbour and managed to coax 2 more pictures out of my dying battery of Minato Mirai, Yokohama's "futuristic" city area. I headed over only to find that if Minato Mirai is any indication of the future, most things will be closed.










I did however manage to get one last picture of something I have noticed in practically every city I have visited or passed through....a ferris wheel. I'm not joking, I have seen one (of fairly large size too) in almost every city I have been in so far. I guess the Japanese love their ferris wheels.