Chinatown

After a very full and tiring week we decided to take it easy on Saturday morning - sleep in, call family...Josh worked on music while I ran some errands and did stuff around the house. Then we headed up to Yokohama in the late afternoon to check out the culture of Chinatown....yeah, who knew....they actually have a pretty well-known Chinatown in Japan. There was a lot to see and experience there and we really enjoyed our evening.
Colorful lanterns hung across many of the streets, ornate gates stood over the roads and welcomed us onto streets lined with dim sum carts and barrels of roasting chestnuts. There were lots of "treasure" shops and Josh was very kind to wander through several of them with me. We picked out a few Christmas gifts and had dinner at one of the million Chinese eating establishments in the area! Then we headed back home via the Minato Mirai part of town, which is home to Japan's tallest skyscraper (not terribly impressive because it has to meet the strict earthquake codes here) and the world's largest ferris wheel. (quite cool as you can see in the photo!)