On the last day in Japan, Liz K, Matt, and I decided just to walk around Yokohama together. It was raining really hard, but we refused to spend our last day in Japan hiding from the rain, so we ventured out into the downpour.
We went to a coffee shop first to get something hot to drink and decide where we wanted to walk to. We decided to find some gates that were shown on the tourist map. They turned out to be in China town. Wrong country, I know. So we found about four gates in China town, visited a temple and looked around in some of the shops before returning to Japan.
We stopped in a convenience store to buy ourselves from Japanese snacks. I bought about six boxes of koala cookies, some of which I planned to give to some of the crew members on the ship… I wasn’t planning to eat six boxes of cookies by myself… This time.
I was completely drenched from the rain, so we stopped by our ship to drop some of our things in our cabins and dry off a little before heading out to lunch. We found an information desk and the woman told us where we could find a kaiten sushi restaurant near the ship. Yen, who also lives on deck 2, joined us for sushi. I am not sure what was happening at the sushi place, but they seemed to have caught a giant fish and were making a big deal out of slicing it up for the sushi. It became a sort of performance with the chef waving a giant knife around and threatening to hit his assistants with it before finally cutting the fish up.
Yen left right after lunch, but the rest of us walked around the shopping center for a little while before heading back to the ship in the rain… We had to do face-to-face immigration off ship and stood in line for about an hour before they let us on again.
The Officer’s Club had a meeting as the ship sailed away from Japan… Dang it! I forgot to buy a kimono!
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