An evening in Yokohama

The day before yesterday we made a short trip to Yokohama. We arrived in the late afternoon, looked around the shops a bit, and headed East to the Yokohama Passenger Terminal. We had seen it from a distance a few years ago, but decided to have a closer look this time. The simplest description for it is that it's a large futuristic pier for cruiseships with an enormous wooden, steel and grass landscape deck, but that doesn't do it justice. The photos below don't really give a good idea of the sheer size of it, either. I can recommend anyone visiting Yokohama to take the slight detour and go for a walk on this pier. You get to see some fantastic architecture up close and a great view of the Yokohama harbour front.

After darkness had completely fallen, we went ice skating at an outdoor rink next to the orange-lit warehouse-turned-shops in the top picture. Some, though not all, of the rental skates had flashing lights attached under the shoes which reacted to the skater's movement, lighting up the ice - a very nice effect. Although crowded (possibly because it was still in the New Year's 3-day holidays), the rink was a decent size and the price wasn't bad either. We concluded the evening with a ride on the Chrono Clock, the 5th largest ferris wheel in the world.