tuesday was jane’s last day with us, so we got an early start to akihabara, since neither jane nor dano had been before. we roamed thru the arcades and electronics shops, and ended up going thru the 8 flrs of the akihabara mandarake. woot geek. jane left us at tokyo station in the afternoon to catch the shink back to ishinomaki…*sniff*, bye jane! we soldiered on and met up with g+r in ebisu to take a day-trip to yokohama…woot! yokohama was a short ride south, and we visited the yokohama docks first, called the osanbashi and designed by foreign office architects. very nice. we then roamed up and down the disturbingly clean streets of yokohama chinatown. for those that haven’t ever been, imagine your typical chinatown. now take away all the filth and garbage on the streets and the smell of fish in the air. yea, thats yokohama chinatown…a surreal super-clean version of the chinatowns you’re used to. we had a nice big chinese dinner (i even had shark fin soup…yum), then hopped back in the car to head back to tokyo. on the way back, we stopped by odaiba to scope out the rockin’ night views of tokyo. we made our way thru the various shopping decks including a whole section made to look like vintage 1960’s tokyo, then hopped back in the car and went home. whew!
*full set already up on flickr eh.
