It's almost 9:30pm here in Yokohama. We git checked in for our one night at the Hilton (thanks Hilton points) and went to find a late lunch. My son wanted Kanagawa style curry so he found a place on the map and we wandered around looking for it for a short while. We found it. It's called Go!Go! Curry or something like that. It was pretty good. It's thicker and very dark and quite tasty.
My son then wanted to go to the harbor to see this pier that juts out into the harbor call Osanbashi pier. It's a major shipping pier and cruise liners dock there up to a certain size.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ōsanbashi_Pier
We took the Minatomirai Line which is a private subway that seems to have been a spin of from Tokyu Railway. The trains are own by the Minatomirai Railway Company but the trains are manned by Tokyu employees but the stations are manned by Minatomirai Railway Co employees except at the. main Yokohama Station, where Tokyu runs their ground operations for them. We took this line to the pier and back.
The pier has this building with a grass roof and the whole non walk way part was lit up with blue lights or blue and white lights and in some places bunches of fake pastel flowers with lights inside. It was very cool. The "Hall" at the end that probably serves the cruise passengers etc had a long gentle sloping walkway (wide -- probably 50 or 70 feet) hat went down to a opening into the building and the sides were stepped like a stadium kind of. They had this really cool and weird light show playing on the whole surface (maybe 200ft - 300ft long by the 30-50ft wide at the top, widening a little as it went down) with music. It's hard to describe. These videos is not mine but shows some of the light show. I'm sure there are better ones:
The whole harbor was synched in to the show at a certain point and lights all along the waterfront, nearby buildings, and a ferris wheel also went on and synched with the music. Also some big searchlight type projecting lights at the top of several of the buildings all shone beams or pulsed beams out over the pier at certain points as well.
This video shows one side of the harbor with the lights on building synched together and with the music on the pier:
(This is not the show we saw as it's 4 year old video but it shows the effect -- but they have added more rights along the waterfront itself and probably on more buildings -- our music was more upbeat and the lights more "energetic")
Actually I just found this video and this is more like what we saw. It is the whole thing -- projection mapping on the ground I mentioned above plus all the lights on the buildings
After we were done there we went backon the same line to the main Yokohama station and my wanted to get some shoes so we went to ABC-Mart (not the same one as in Hawaii) and he got the shoes and we went back to the hotel, tired and ready for the new day. Tomorrow we move to Tokyo and my sone has a few things planned for us.
Here are a few random still shots I took in Yokohama. My son has the better phone camera so I am letting him take most of the photos and he'll pass them on to me later.
Our hotel is by the Nissan World HQ. In fact we learned once we got to the hotel that the main way to get to the station from the hotel is a walkway that. passes right through the buildings second floor and a raised walkway on both sides.
This is that Minatomirai Line train we took to the pier.
Someone is getting married. A photographer had the whole space set up with flash and stuff but it was mostly in the dark and I got this cool silhouete image. It was cooler in real life
We passed by this church on the way to the pier. I read the sign on the way back. "Church of Christ in Japan -- Reformed and Presbyterian"
I'll put up some more pics after I get the better ones from my son.
since we're flying down to the Bay Area Saturday for my BIL's celebration of life. I found the Blue Lizard sunscreen, on Amazon, that the dermatologist said to use. He said BL is the only stuff that actually works.