久しぶり！
It's really been a while, hasn't it? Good. Sometimes it's good if one is scarcely available (well, even less available than usual, considering I am in a different country from all my family and most of my friends)
Guess what I did today? I went to Yokohama today! And I did various things in Yokohama, all of which were enjoyable. Let me tell you what happened.
Today (Wednesday) was a holiday for the Bekka students, which meant we didn't have to go to classes. Yay! Well, because of that Level 4-tachi (Hannah, Ariya, Soyeong and Rei) originally planned to go to Yokohama, and Hana extended the invitation to me because, duh. We all know each other and it would be fun. We met at 8am, which was a little early for my tastes, but mostly because I forgot about a paper that was also due the same day as the Yokohama day-trip and so stayed up a bit late to start/finish/submit it.
So, we met around 8ish am, ended up taking a bit of a walk to JR Tsudanuma and from then on began our journey to Yokohama; we went to Tokyo Station and explored for a bit, and bought food because of reasons. (The reason was hunger.) After about an hour of derping around in the huge Tokyo Station, we found the right platform for a train that would take us to Yokohama. Without counting the time we spent walking around Tokyo Station, our commute was around 90 minutes, not too bad at all.
When we got to Yokohama Station, we caught a subway train that would take us to our first destination; The Cup Noodle Museum. I won't lie, I was a little skeptical about going to such a place, but the museum was actually really great. That's what I get for judging something with no basis. So, our first order of business was to make our own package of cup noodles; we had to buy the noodle container and then we decorated it to our hearts content, picked what type of broth base and what toppings we wanted to add to the noodles, and then watched the cool process of ensconcing our noodle cup in protective shrink wrap. This is a condensed version of the process, but since you weren't there you will just have to deal. (I will also make it up by posting pictures.)
After we put our cup noodles in a bag (the bag is so cool, I'm not even joking) it was lunch time, so we went to the Noodle Bazaar, which was one of the dining area in the Museum. There, you could buy various international themed noodle dishes; they had Vietnamese, Korean, Italian, Thai, etc etc inspired noodles dishes, and they all looked delicious. The food was pretty cheap (300 yen), but everything was a half size so everyone bought two different dishes. After eating our delicous food, we decided to explore the museum more, and they had an area where there were a lot of interactive art displays, all of which were related to cup noodles and nurturing ideas/innovation. It was really cool, and we took a lot of silly pictures. After looking at everything in that part of the exhibit, we left the museum. The Noodle Museum was a great start to our Yokohama adventures.
After the Museum, we decided to walk to 中華街, or China Town. On the way, we passed the huge ferris wheel and mini amusement park in Yokohama and decided on the spot that we were going to ride it at night because it would be super pretty. Since it was still relatively early, we took a lot of detours on the short walk to China Town. We walked into a bunch of shops and pretty much window shopped, with Rei giving informative commentary about what different things were, what they meant/were used for, etc. It was really cute, she was really happy when we got to China Town and there were kanji everywhere. We ended up leaving the area for dinner, however, because we needed to find a place where everyone can eat; Ariya does not eat pork (she is Muslim), and we quickly determined (well, Rei did, being as she is from Taiwan and thus speaks Chinese) that all of the restaurants probably use lard after asking a restaurant worker. So, we made our way back towards the ferris wheel and ate at a restaurant in a big shopping mall/restaurant building. It was DELICIOUS, I still think of that meal sometimes.
After dinner we, you guessed it, rode on the ferris wheel. I was a little freaked out at first because the ferris wheel is high and I am weak to high things/areas, but I quickly got over my fear because, well, a ferris wheel is not a roller coaster. The way you got in the ferris wheel is kind of ridiculous, it never really stops moving so you kind of have to run-jump into it; it's been a long time since I rode a ferris wheel, but I don't remember ever entering that way. The view was beautiful; it was a good decision to ride it at night. After the ferris wheel, we all decided to go home.
That was a fun day. I hope I get to go back to Yokohama one of these days.
じゃ、
ティーシア
It's really been a while, hasn't it? Good. Sometimes it's good if one is scarcely available (
Guess what I did today? I went to Yokohama today! And I did various things in Yokohama, all of which were enjoyable. Let me tell you what happened.
Today (Wednesday) was a holiday for the Bekka students, which meant we didn't have to go to classes. Yay! Well, because of that Level 4-tachi (Hannah, Ariya, Soyeong and Rei) originally planned to go to Yokohama, and Hana extended the invitation to me because, duh. We all know each other and it would be fun. We met at 8am, which was a little early for my tastes, but mostly because I forgot about a paper that was also due the same day as the Yokohama day-trip and so stayed up a bit late to start/finish/submit it.
So, we met around 8ish am, ended up taking a bit of a walk to JR Tsudanuma and from then on began our journey to Yokohama; we went to Tokyo Station and explored for a bit, and bought food because of reasons. (The reason was hunger.) After about an hour of derping around in the huge Tokyo Station, we found the right platform for a train that would take us to Yokohama. Without counting the time we spent walking around Tokyo Station, our commute was around 90 minutes, not too bad at all.
When we got to Yokohama Station, we caught a subway train that would take us to our first destination; The Cup Noodle Museum. I won't lie, I was a little skeptical about going to such a place, but the museum was actually really great. That's what I get for judging something with no basis. So, our first order of business was to make our own package of cup noodles; we had to buy the noodle container and then we decorated it to our hearts content, picked what type of broth base and what toppings we wanted to add to the noodles, and then watched the cool process of ensconcing our noodle cup in protective shrink wrap. This is a condensed version of the process, but since you weren't there you will just have to deal. (I will also make it up by posting pictures.)
After we put our cup noodles in a bag (the bag is so cool, I'm not even joking) it was lunch time, so we went to the Noodle Bazaar, which was one of the dining area in the Museum. There, you could buy various international themed noodle dishes; they had Vietnamese, Korean, Italian, Thai, etc etc inspired noodles dishes, and they all looked delicious. The food was pretty cheap (300 yen), but everything was a half size so everyone bought two different dishes. After eating our delicous food, we decided to explore the museum more, and they had an area where there were a lot of interactive art displays, all of which were related to cup noodles and nurturing ideas/innovation. It was really cool, and we took a lot of silly pictures. After looking at everything in that part of the exhibit, we left the museum. The Noodle Museum was a great start to our Yokohama adventures.
After the Museum, we decided to walk to 中華街, or China Town. On the way, we passed the huge ferris wheel and mini amusement park in Yokohama and decided on the spot that we were going to ride it at night because it would be super pretty. Since it was still relatively early, we took a lot of detours on the short walk to China Town. We walked into a bunch of shops and pretty much window shopped, with Rei giving informative commentary about what different things were, what they meant/were used for, etc. It was really cute, she was really happy when we got to China Town and there were kanji everywhere. We ended up leaving the area for dinner, however, because we needed to find a place where everyone can eat; Ariya does not eat pork (she is Muslim), and we quickly determined (well, Rei did, being as she is from Taiwan and thus speaks Chinese) that all of the restaurants probably use lard after asking a restaurant worker. So, we made our way back towards the ferris wheel and ate at a restaurant in a big shopping mall/restaurant building. It was DELICIOUS, I still think of that meal sometimes.
After dinner we, you guessed it, rode on the ferris wheel. I was a little freaked out at first because the ferris wheel is high and I am weak to high things/areas, but I quickly got over my fear because, well, a ferris wheel is not a roller coaster. The way you got in the ferris wheel is kind of ridiculous, it never really stops moving so you kind of have to run-jump into it; it's been a long time since I rode a ferris wheel, but I don't remember ever entering that way. The view was beautiful; it was a good decision to ride it at night. After the ferris wheel, we all decided to go home.
That was a fun day. I hope I get to go back to Yokohama one of these days.
じゃ、
ティーシア
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