Yokohama
I worked in a hostel in Bristol for 3.5 years and behind the reception we had a calendar with 12 pictures for each month from different locations in the world.I took a picture with my phone of each of those 12 locations on the calendar and said to myself -One day I am going to visit all these places.
One of the places was Yokohama and when I was there I took a picture from that exact location with the Ferris wheel.I was very happy to be at the place I've seen on the calendar a few years ago.
I decided to go and stay at the hostel which address I gave to an immigration officer upon arrival in Japan.
The owners of the hostel were a really nice couple and said they've visited Bulgaria and stayed in Hostel mostel in Sofia so already knew quite a lot about my home country.The hostel in Yokohama is called Futareno and the address is Naka-GU,Noge 4-173-5 Yokohama,Japan
There I met an american girl Meghan and with her ,the owners and a few others we shared Japanese beer,sake and Japanese food.They gave me a lot of information about interesting places I could visit until I still have my JR pass and recommended I should visit Kamakura and Matsumoto castle so I did.
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| Yokohama |
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| Rainy Yokohama |
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| Not caching any airplanes all the way from Moscow to Japan. I Did it! |
I made a day trip to Matsumoto castle .Here are some pictures:
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| Matsumoto castle |
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| Matsumoto castle |
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| Former Kaichi School |
On my way back to Yokohama I saw a sign saying Hachioji or sometning like that and that actually reminded me of the film Hachiko ,so I thought maybe if I could go and find that statue of the dog where he waited for his owner for so many years.So I asked two boys working on the information point on the train station and although
their English wasn't great they said :Oh yeah,we know the Dog and the film and they googled it and said :It's on Shibuya station and gave me all the instructions how to get there,so I found myself on the train to Shibuya.
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| Rush hour on the Japanese trains |
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| I found the Famous Hachiko statue |
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and took a picture with him :)
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After that on the next day I made a day trip to Kamakura:
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| Shibuya station:look at the amount of people crossing.It is insane! |
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| In Japan I got all my senses overloaded and brain overwhelmed.But it was well worth it! |
Day trip to Kamakura-I found it quite touristy with a lot of people on the streets so I only stayed there a few hours and headed back to Yokohama.Here are some pictures from Kamakura and Yokohama again:
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| Kamakura |
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| Back to Yokohama |
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| Hard rock cafe Yokohama-unfortunately everything was very expensive |
In Yokohama I bought a few presents and sent a small parcel with them to Bulgaria as I also put inside the box my Trans Siberian handbook,water from Lake Baikal and few other souvenirs which I've been caring on this journey with me across Russia and Korea .My bag got a bit lighter.
My Japan Railway pass was about to expire and unless you have it, all the tickets for the trains are very expensive if you buy them on the train station so I decided to move on to Tokyo the last few days before I fly out to New Zealand.
