January 11, 2011
8:30 PM
11 Jan 2011, Japan Day 4
Woke up at 8ish. Next stop Yokohama.
Went around random places. Isezaka-cho for a walk and lunch. Nothing too much to see there, but the lunch crowd was quite aggressive. All the eateries were maxed out. Random fact: french fries are called potato in Japan. Just nice, the place I was eating had a flavour of fries called potato too. So.. potato flavoured potatoes?
After lunch, made a big round around the area. Basha(horse+car)-place, then the bay area, Yamashita park, marine tower, then Chinatown. Froze my hands off somewhere around Yamashita park from taking too many photos. Hands: come out of pockets, snap photo, replace lens cap, pop back into pockets.
Chinatown was different from what I expected. Stuff don`t come cheap at all there. You`d be hard stretched to find a meal below 1000 yen. Second thing, just something interesting.. there was a shop selling korean goods. SNSD, Bigbang, and all that crap. Cups, calendars, posters, pillows, pens.. you name it, they got it. A korean shop, in chinatown, of Japan? Globalization much?
Went back to the hotel after dinner at Chinatown, then went out for an onsen bath. Apparently my skin went really sensitive, probably thanks to the weather. Not forgetting the abrasions from my thermal wear too. In the end, I could hardly touch warm water without hurting, let alone enter the hot water bath. What a waste.. onsen experiences are always good. Crappy weather`s making me miss out on all the fun.. :( To think I still have a little below 2 weeks of Japan to go..