Wednesday, November 5, 2008

Yokohama

Weekends in Tokyo can be a bit intense so on Saturday we headed off to Yokohama. From Ebisu, the station across from our hotel, it took only 21 minutes to reach Japan's second largest city.



While it seems there's lots to do in Yokes normally anyway, we'd headed down for the Yokohama Triennale 2008. Last year we got to go to the Kobe Biennale, an excellent contemporary japanese art exhibition within hundreds of shipping containers. I thought the biennale would be similar but instead the contemporary artists were from everywhere and of varying quality.

Will in front of an instillation that reminded me of wet plaster string over a balloon but bigger

Oh, we had a break for "threesies" - our new favourite meal

These lights made noise


Japanese artist painting t-shirts


Humming mirrors

Political puppets

Yokohama at night. Actually, this was probably around 5.30pm

Yokohama has a big ex-pat community and a huge Chinatown area, with very grand temples.

We went there for the all-you-can-eat Dim Sum. And we lined up for it too. Out of the 30 dishes on offer not one was vegetarian. Will ended up eating the 11 dishes we ordered himself. I had some dessert and some crispy noodles with soy sauce. Yum.

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