This day, maruta-san picked me with his family up at 10 a.m. After moving in a new flat you need a few things, so did I. So we drove to the nearest shopping center. By car, it was about 20 minutes away from my flat. Finally, I saw a Japanese shopping center for the first time. The first impression is a usual shopping center.
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This is what I call heaven!
Do you see all these different, tasty things? ;) |
On the second look, you see that the different stores on the same floor are not divided by walls or doors. Everthing is really open. Also the pay desks are not beneath the doors, there are somewhere in the back. It feels way more friendly than shopping centers in Germany :D
So we bought my stuff (something for the household and of course more food and water) and afterwards Marutsa-san invited me to eat lunch with his family in a restaurant near by. It was really nice with them. We ate lunch in a traditional Japanese restaurant, so this is checked on my To-Do-List ;)
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Roller Coaster, the red circle marks ... the end?
(C) Maruta-san |
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Afterwards they brought me home where I rested a few hours. Because at 5 p.m. Maruta-san came again to pick me up. This time we drove to Yokohama City to meet some AIESECers, Reiko-san and Hiroki-san and Tenri-san, a chinese exchange student. After that we all went to the theme park in Yokohama called "Cosmoworld". The roller coaster there is quite an attraction you should do :)
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おいしいいい！！！ Tastyyyyy!!!!!!
(C) Reiko-san |
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Unfortunately Maruta-san had to go home afterwards. Our next station was the amusement center of Yokohama. The first thing we did there was something I just heard about: Purikura. It's like these little photo machines on the street, but in Japan its (like many things) just awesome ^^ Many of you know them already, for the rest: The awesome feature at Purikura is that the machine has an automatic image manipulation system.
A little bit like you know it from Instagram, but here it's more advanced. It's really like a professional mini-photostudio. You can change the background, colorize the hair many more things. Your skin gets automatically a soft-focus effect (dt.: Weichzeichnen-Effekt) what has the effect that it looks like you were wearing makeup :D And you can do the most changes by yourselves after you shot the photos in an extra cabine with everyone together which is pretty cool ^^ Did I mentioned that i liked it a bit? ;) There are hundreds or thousands of them with different backgrounds, effects, etc., so this won't be the last time :D
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The Crew (f.l.t.r: Tenri-san, random guy, Hiriko-san, Reiko-san, Maruta-san)
(C) another random but helpful guy |
And this was not the end. The original plan was to go to a bar but because of a national soccer game, nearly every bar with a TV was full. So for dinner we went to a udon noodle restaurant . I took a bowl of noodles with Egg which was very tasty. With new energy, we went to a little shopping center within the district. And I mean literally little, because inside the stores, everything was full with different kind of stuff and there wasn't much place to walk.But for me it was amazing to see how much stuff you can buy in one little place :D
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Somewhere in Yokohama
(C) Maruta-san |
Our final destination was a gaming center with stuff like UFO-Catchers, slot machines (which we didn't used), racing simulators and so on. First, we tried our luck at the UFO-Catchers. Hiroki and I were lucky and get finally two little stuffed toys out of it. If you know how, it's pretty easy ^^
next station was a horror shooter where you get a controller like a stationar machine gun. A funny feature is that your pulse will be measured during the game and you can see the result on the screen. After killing a bunch of zombies and other creatures, we played a round of air hockey and finally Super Mario Kart. And I won! At least in the last one ;)
It was a day I will never forget :)
Wait ... when was it again? .... :D
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