Yokohama Tour 2

This was the second day in a row that I went to the exact places that I went previously. But with a different person. Today I met with CSma, and we went the same places but in reverse order. We started off in Motomachi street. Where we saw a film crew taping for a soap drama.
Then we proceeded into Chinatown where we saw another film crew taping for a show featuring a restaurant. She looked pretty famous. But I wasn't so sure. No one seemed to know her though. It's kinda weird how the Japanese treat their famous stars. They just go about their business. No one asks for an autograph or crowd them from doing what they need to do. They stop to look and ask who the people are.

Anyways, we stopped at a Number 2 ranked restaurant in Chinatown. They were kinda rude, but what do you expect for a hole in the wall restaurant. It was very crowded, and not as good as the one I ate at yesterday. I little more expensive. I wasn't impressed at all. The lunch menu wasn't spectacular, but somehow they were ranked number 2. CSma didn't get her food till after I had more for like 20 minutes. I had to eat SLOW so I wouldn't finish before she had her food. Then we left to Yamashita park.

I showed her the Goddess of Water, and the song of Yokohama, and San Diego. We took a picture with the Downtown being in the backdrop. It was really nice. Not extremely hot since we were near the water. I showed her the Indian Sister City gift. I forget what it's called, but I knew at the time. We started walking past the Police Headquarters and then saw something kinda interesting.

I went into the Customs Museum. I know, sounds fun, the Customs Museum. Inside, they had things that showed how they find drugs, weapons, fake products, old uniforms, old money, fake money compared to real money. It was fascinating how it all works. The exhibit that I really liked was the counterfeit products. It asked you to tell the real from the fake and they look so much alike. But the customs can tell the difference. It's really amazing. The tour guide was like 60 something years old and knew a little English, which surprised me. I didn't think that they would be interested to learn the language. We spent like 30 minutes inside or so.

Then we went to Yokohama World Porters where, guess what?? We saw another film crew shooting a commercial for Apple Box. Don't ask, I've never heard of it either. We stayed there for like 40 minutes trying to figure out who the stars of the commerical were. The people who were filming were like, you don't know... and yeah, no one around knew. Then we went inside to look around.

The next stop was the CosmoWorld where I saw a film crew the previous day. I was expecting to see them there again, but they weren't. We walked inside the Queen's Square and looked around the snoopy store a little. Took a picture of the leather snoopy, and then we saw a police exhibit. They had little kids dress up as police officers. It was cool, but I think it was mostly done for the little people. I got to take a picture with some cute female officers. That was really cool! Sorry BH, and QA, but I thought it was really Cool.

Then we walked into the Landmark tower, where the tour of Yokohama would eventually end. As we walked in, you would never believe what we saw. Yeah, Another film crew, but this time was taking for a Japanese nightly program. The announcer seemed like she was famous. The rest of the people were college girls competing to go on a free trip somewhere. It was kinda interesting. After filming they did a commercial for the sponser, Asahi beer. They messed up a lot, I mean a lot. They had do to a lot of takes. I didn't want to watch anymore because it got boring. We went inside the Sony Plaza to see foreign items brought to Japan to be sold. Then we walked out to Sakuragi-cho station where CSma would go one way, and I would go the other.

Part 2 - DrinkingI was supposed to be at Konandai station around 7:45pm to me TTki and his mom because we were going to have dinner and drink. We were going to meet MayuTno and Akko at a bar type kind of thing. I arrived there early. After that I ordered a Calipis sour, then a gin/tonic, then something else that TTki also ordered. It was kind of a lot since we had big cups. It was amazing, but MayuTno found $100 in the bathroom. So dinner was only $40. That was crazy. I think my Japanese improved because of Alcohol. I found how old everyone was and when MayuTno's Birthday was. It's November 26th, so don't forget. I thought I would be drunk or puke my brains out, but neither happened.We stopped at 7-11 on the way home to get some poccari sweat, It helps a lot. I had to meet CSma again the next day to tour a city in Tokyo, so I was praying that I didn't sleep in too late.