Today we went to Yokohama, a trip of a little under an hour south by train. Specifically we went to the Minatomirai district, which is popular with tourists.
Our first stop was the 69th floor observatory (“sky garden”) of the Landmark Tower. Skies were clear and the views were extraordinary! In addition to clear 360 views of Yokohama, we could also see Tokyo (Sky Tree!) and even had a magnificent view of Fuji:
In case you’re keeping track, Landmarks viewing level is higher than Tokyo Tower and only surpassed in Japan by Sky Tree. In one week we’d done the three highest 🙂
Next we headed over to the Cosmoworld amusement park just adjacent to the mall at the base of Landmark.
We of course rode the gigantic wheel (‘Cosmo Clock’) and I rode the coaster you can see before it. We did an old fashioned pedal powered monorail and a weird ghost train in which we were locked in a cage. But the best exhibit was ‘Cave of Shooting: Echidna’:
This was a 3D shooting gallery on rails that was mega fun. Unsurprisingly – and due to my unique combination of marksmanship and monster killing skills – I got the daily high score and received a special card as a prize:
What an accomplishment!!
Of course we also did our daily share of UFO Catching and capsule machines, and later in the day I hopped over to Akiba to buy a few more souvenirs.
We’ll be returning there on our last full day tomorrow, for a bender of gaming, UFO catching and shopping. It promises to be a fun day 🙂