We had been invited by one of our Korean friends out today, and so April, Astiti, and I, together with another Indonesian, Indri, went to meet Chong-gum (Korean) at the Ishikawa-cho Station. This station is located near the Chinatown area. Chong-gum's original idea was to bring us to Chinatown, but upon knowing that we had already been there, we ended up going to Yamashita Park instead, which has a really pretty boulevard. When we got there, we wondered why there was a group of people making a circle at the boulevard, and we found out that a white "gaijin" (foreigner), an American, I think, and speaking in Japanese, was having an act--sorta like street magic thingie. He was quite entertaining actually (didn't look bad either, but he had a companion who looked even better haha), and at the end he even juggled a ball, a stick with fire, and a chainsaw. Yes, a chainsaw. A chainsaw that was turned on. Yep, he was quite good. Of course, he asked for money from everyone... *lol* and people were so amused by his performance that quite a lot actually gave money. I wanted to give, but I had no change. Haha. (In Japan, if I say change, it means a few hundred-yen coins, mind you!)
We then took pictures of the Hikawa Maru, which was docked right beside where the "gaijin" was doing his "show". The Hikawa Maru is the only large Japanese liner which survived WWII. Now it's used as a restaurant and sorta museum. We would have went inside it, but we found out that the admission fee was too expensive. *Ugh!*
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| Yamashita Park |
After that, we found out that there was an international food festival going on right there at Yamashita Park! There were booths from different countries, selling food... and we found the Philippine booth! They were selling arroz caldo, cucinta, barbeque and some other stuff at our booth. We also met girls going around the place wearing their national costumes. I have a picture of Astiti and Indri with three girls from Germany, Brazil, and Mexico. A bit later that, we befriended two girls, one was from Laos and was wearing a national costume, and the other one was Thai. It was a great experience, actually. Plus, I had my first taste of Indian food. It was quite good actually. We had some sorta Indian fried potatoes, and a really "oishi" one which looked like "polo" (of course I'm referring to the mint with the hole here) stacked together. It was supposed to have been made with lamb meat, and was spicy (not hot, just spicy). Ooh... loved it! And my first lamb meat! *heheheh*
After that we went to the Yokohama Doll Museum... and dolls galore! They were really very pretty, and depicted nationalies all over the world. Of course, I found Philippine dolls, wearing "Barong Tagalog" and "Maria Clara". Naturally, a large number of the dolls were Japanese, and showcased the many different varieties of Japanese dolls.
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| Yokohama Marine Tower |
When it got dark, we went up to the Yokohama Marine Tower, which has an observatory at the top two floors. The tower is around 100 meters high, and the elevator they had was really cool! You could see the view around you while riding it and the ceiling had luminous stars! Of course, when we got to the top, the view was awesome! Yokohama is indeed beautiful, especially at night.
My feet ache right now, but I had a really great time exploring today. Plus, I put my camera to use for the first time. I hope I can post the pictures here soon!
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