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Very chill day today. The rain was due to set in after midday and it certainly did. We walked around a bit more of Yokohama in the morning and checked out some odd stores. I don’t think we bought anything at all. It’s mostly semi-pornographic 1\/8th sized replica dolls of manga I have never heard of. There’s only so many of these a man can own.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After midday we just had a coffee and ambled around before having a nap to mentally prepare ourselves for the flight home. Not many photos for today, but that reflects the wind-down on our end.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CR:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ah Nippon. It’s the land of sleepy salarymen, cute kids and crowded subways. It’s the only place in the world where the waitress will wait, looming over your table, until you order your first drink directly upon being seated. The wonders we have experienced: custom stamps at destinations; receipts galore; gatcha gardens; fish for every meal and, don’t forget, the glorious, endless pamphlets. You’ve never felt cleaner than after a shower in a molded, windowless box. Oh and the sounds. Don’t think because you’re not allowed to talk in public that there aren’t sounds: helpful speakers on the ground telling you to watch your step over ramps; the doorman emphatically punching out an Arigato Gozymus<\/em> to every worker that comes through the door; and last but not least, the public service announcements in Japanese blasted from megaphones on remote coastal sections that definitely do not sound like tsunami warnings. I’ll miss your scalding black coffee and your spongey croissants. I’ll forever cherish memories of the continent of plastics I consumed on your lands. Farewell rising sun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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DW: Yokohama is kind of like a Tokyo extension. It’s a bit less refined, a bit less clean and filled somehow with a few more tourists in certain areas, but it’s hitting similar notes.
CR: I experience Yokohama through the binary classification of In Yakuza Like a Dragon or Not In Yakuza Like a Dragon.
DW: This section is not in Yakuza Like a Dragon.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n