Sunday, 4 August 2013

Yokohama - Miniature Cities and the Sea

Soba in Japan is the best!
Today, I went with Nene-san and Noguchi-san, two employees at the company where I hang out from time to time, to Yokohama City ;)

Just me and a temple :D
At first, we visited a museum for miniature scenes, called dioramas. Because I liked building model aircrafts and ships as a kid, I wanted to see this. It's very lovely to see this little scenes with so much details. In most cases, you have to change your point of view sometimes to see every hidden detail.

Many figures are also so positioned that you can see them only from a fixed spot. Also inside the trains and houses are figures, so if you just look fast over the model, many things you won't be able to see.

After a short rest in a noodle restaurant, we continued our travel and went to Chinatown. It is like another world in the middle of the city. Because it was very neat and small, it reminded me also of Vietnam :) Here we saw just a few shops, a temple and (more interesting) the street life.
Streets Of Yokohama
Our last attraction of the day was a boat tour. The tour itself wasn't long but I got some interesting perspectives which you can hardly see from the land.
The other side of Yokohama

For example, there are many places for transportation and other businesses which are a visual contrast to the rest of the city.

So you can see that besides tourism, Yokohama is also a city of business, especially logistics over the sea.

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