There’s a lot to blog about today, so let’s get going. First of all, it’s friday, and it’s damn hot. Not just hot, but hot in the biblical sense. It’s not fun to walk around with massive sweat patches covering your heat-rash infested body, but what are you going to do. Sorry for all of you who were just eating.
All this talk of heat reminds of what happened to me last weekend. I took the bullet train down to tokyo, where I met up with my girlfriend. We then spent Saturday in Yokohama and Sunday in Kamakura. Today, I’ll talk a little about the joys of Yokohama Chinatown. The one thing you must remember is that it was 30+ Celcius all day. That made this trip more of an endurance test than a holiday.
So we started the day at this “museum” in Chinatown called 大世界(dai sekai - Big World). Don’t believe the hype. This isn’t so much of a museum as a place to corner you and take your money without the ability to refuse. Some might call it theivery. You get taken up to the eighth floor and start a downward spiral of spending copious amounts of money on little or nothing. There were some nice things about it, however. The lamps were nice, pretty colours and there was a lady who was able to play some cool chinese music using an instrument that looked like a koto. I have declare that any music that sounds “asian” must come from this instrument. Here are some pictures for you who need visual reinforcement. I don’t really think it was worth the 500yen admission fee.
They even take a picture of you on the top floor and charge you 1000 yen for it on your way out. Refusing means certain death. There is also a place where you can get your picture taken with a massive panda. so I had Shiho “assume the position.”
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