11 November 2017
Here are your shops
The red brick shopping warehouses of Yokohama
Apparently I am doing requests now.
Yokohama does have lots of shops. There are department stores, underground malls, long open air malls etc.
Tonight I went to a few of them, but not all of them, not even close.
There is no actual city centre, the 'Yokohama' area is actually quite small. Sakuragicho, Minatomirai, Chojamachi are all a lot busier.
Most of the very large modern looking buildings are actually shopping malls on the lower levels and underground.
They all have restaurant floors and 'streets' even if the streets are underground and indoors, just like other parts of Japan.
So there you go, theres all the info on where the shopping malls and stores and whatever are in Yokohama.
Now I feel pleasently exhausted. Its a most wonderful feeling most people never get to experience. Jelly legs from walking down the mountain, I can barely stay awak at 9:30pm.
Tomorrow I am back to Tokyo for 4 more nights. I better find some funny stories to make up otherwise this will be boring to read.
Before I selected my dinner, I got to see omurice being made, which I thought was fascinating.
There is no way I would be able to do what is required with an omelette to get it to go over the rice.
This is inside the red brick warehouse down at the port. 3 levels of boutique shops. More touristy than the boutique shops of last night at motomatchi.
Heres a long exposure of the red brick warehouse. Everyone else was doing tripods etc.
Lots of people were turning up here for dinner in limo's.
The skyline plus ferris wheel. I am standing on top of a huge shopping mall thing.
Inside was a hawaiian themed food court, and I briefly considered having a savoury pancake meal.
But then I decided on Korean tofu stew. Delicious. Damn cheap. Lots of mushrooms in the stew also.
The fun park was not drawing a lot of customers on a Saturday night.
That building in the front that looks like the Parthenon, also a shopping mall. I missed it on my way over from ferris wheel mall world because its wedged between the fun park and the water.
And heres a giant whaling ship in the harbour, unloading its tasty tasty catch.
The sakuragicho station area is chock full of shopping malls.
Behind it are a grid of restaurants, maid bars etc. Yokohamas Kabukicho.
Then there is this strange place, running along the edge of a canal, all these little bars are just a few feet wide. They all seemed very popular.
Final photo for tonight, a very low calorie ice cream. Much more ice than cream, and its really like they froze a cup of tea. I liked it.