Yokohama!!

This weekend, I went to Yokohama, which is located in Kangawa Prefecture, just south of Tokyo Prefecture. Because it is a port city, there used to be lots of Americans living there. Today, it is famous for Chinatown, Cosmo World (with a HUGE ferris wheel), cup noodles museum, ramen museum, Red Brickhouses, Landmark Tower, and much much much more!!

Train only for women during peak hours

Women only train!

It was a good an hour and a half train trip from where I live. We got out at Minatomirai Station, which is also a famous district that sells lots of goods! The first place out of the station was a huge shopping mall called Queen's Square. Straight across from it is the Landmark Tower Shopping Mall, which once again was so big! It had many many varieties of shops, including POKEMON CENTER, a cute little Ghibli store, and a Shonen Jump store (sells lots of authentic anime/manga collections.

Longest elevator I have ever been in.
Inside the Queen's Square

Beautiful Mall of Queen's Square

Stairs inside the mall

A band setting up to play inside the mall!

Pokemon Center!! So many kids and parents there!

Entrance to the Pokemon Center.
This is when it just opened too, so many people!

Inside the Pokemon store!

Pokemon cards! (super nostalgic, huh?)

Bulbasaur and Togepi!!

Pikachu and me :)

Snorlax and friend! LOL

Pikachu merchandise: lunchboxes,
tea pots, lots and lots!

Inside the Ghibli store!
We are both Kiki from Kiki's
Delivery Service movie :)

Jazz band performing the whole day!

World Porters - underground fashion stores!

Inside the cup noodle museum:
waiting in line to buy tickets!

Entrance to the Circle Tower: it's
literally a circular tower. You can
walk around in a circle!! 

The view from the circle tower!

Along the Circle Tower

Red Brick Warehouses in Yokohama!
The day was still very gloomy in the morning, but
after lunch it got a lot brighter!

Entrance to the Red Brick
Warehouses!

Stairs inside the red brick warehouses.
It's actually become a small shopping mall inside
where lots of couples hang out!

The restaurant that I ate lunch in.
Very yummy with unlimited bread!
There's a section in which you can be like
the people in this picture: eat lunch while
sitting on a bed! SO COOL!

The dessert menu. OH MY!

View from the
balcony of the restaurant!

Ferris Wheel inside Cosmo World!

Unlimited BREAD!

My lunch: Baked seafood pasta :) yumm

Another view from the balcony! So beautiful.
The skies are clearly up !! It was very foggy in the morning!
You can even see the ferris wheel from here!

There's a random bear inside the mall..

Another view !!

At the cup noodle museum now!!

This is like a life-size cup noodles! with their mascot
a chicken sitting on top! super cute!!
Compare it with the size of the little kid walking behind it.

Chicken noodle factory!
Was sold out so we weren't able to go in,
but we were able to see through the glass walls
looking at them make the noodles. So cool!

Cup noodles park! Amusement park for little kids :)

The different kind of noodles around the world!

Inside the Noodles Bizarre

There's lots of noodles from
different countries in this Noodles Bizzare

Areas to sit while eating noodles

Amazing view outside the museum!

You definitely don't experience this in everyday busy Tokyo!

I wonder what this crescent-shaped building is...

Cool people riding boats in the lake

Inside the "My cup noodles factory" inside the Cup Noodles Museum!

People designing the
cover of their own
cup noodles!

Just the cup of my cup noodles!
Time to decorate!!

Me and my cup noodle decorations!

Finished product !

      

Other side! 

Would you buy my cup noodles?

For the noodles to go inside the cup,
we put the cup onto the noodles
inside out.

All the noodles ready to be packaged
into the cups!

The various ingredients that you can choose to put into your cup noodles!

What the inside of my cup
noodles looks like :)
The ingredients I put were BACON,
corn, shrimp, and little cute chicken flakes :)

She is sealing our cup noodles!

She is shrink-wrapping my cup noodles!

my cup noodles packaged!!

           

My cup noodles and me :)
Came with a bag too!

The history of cup noodles! 

Walls and walls of cup noodles!

1976 UFO cup noodles!

More panels of cup noodles!

Cup noodle mascot!
Chicken (ramen) :)

Cups and cups of noodles!

More noodles!

Cup noodles theater!
Showing the history of the
first cup noodles!

The house of the original cup noodle
inventor: Momofuku Ando!

Projected onto the Museum wall!

All these are projections! super cool!

Chicken Ramen!

The noodles bursting out the cup!

Inspiration / Amazing people!

Statue of Momofuku Ando and his invention:
The cup noodles!

Cup noodle manju (a type of sweets)

Selling limited edition cup noodles!

At Cosmo World :)

The beautiful ferris wheel at sunset!

Another view of the ferris wheel!

This roller coaster's name is called "into the water".

Watch as the roller coaster goes into the water. Look
at the lights! It looks like fire tho.. haha

BOOOOOM!

peaceful lake now! haha

Game stands next to the Ferris wheel!

Ferris wheel again at night!

At Landmark Towers now! The 69th floor - building with the elevator that travels at 750m/min. and it only takes 40 seconds or so to reach the 69th floor! super crazy. The building is 273m tall!

ticket to Landmark Tower!

Inside the elevator!

Already at the 24th floor in like 20 seconds.

The view!!
The view on the 69th floor is a 360degree view!!
so I will have lots of pictures that might look the same :)
Bear with me!

Me posing in front of the night view :)

They even had caricature paintings on the 69th flor!
These are so cute!! The ones at Fisherman's Wharf
cannot even compare !!
but the price was 2000yen per person!

You can see the ferris wheel too!

Omg!! One piece themed caricature! SO CUTE!

Yokohama station's history!!

Sadly, we didn't have time to go visit Chinatown!! So I will have to come back another day to the beautiful city of Yokohama :) I will definitely update ^^