DAY 16 [ Tokyo / Yokahama / Kamakura ] : Pleasure Cruise...
Mr. Fujiki's sent his chauffeur for us at 10 am to take us to 30 minutes south to Yokahama for lunch and onto Katakutra for sightseeing. While Oki sleeps in the comfy chairs of the interior Luxury Van, I soak up the surrounding view outside wishing I could be napping too.
We arrive at Yokahama a bit early for Mr. Fujiki and get driven around Chinatown for a bit. This is the largest Chinatown outside of China.
We get to the port terminal of Yokaham just in time for lunch and meet up with Mr. Fujiki and a friend who runs a sightseeing company locally. The Port Terminal is a modern design of steel and wood.
We boarded a giant buffet boat ship that Mr. Fujiki owns and headed up to the upper deck to eat. The ship was white, carried a crew of 50, had 5 levels and is well over 150 feet long. For lunch we had a Chinese buffet with accompaniment by a piano player and violin as the white flag of the ship flaps on the bow just out the front window.
We cruised around Yokahama harbor for a couple hours and had desert in Mr. Fujiki's State Room. I felt as if we were meeting a big crime boss since I was sitting across a giant wooden table from this good natured, rotund man in sunglasses. After some chatting a knock at the door brings in a balloon animal artist who conjured up a giraffe for OKI and a cat for myself. Oh no that wasn't all... Another man entered and 'dazzled' us with some sleight of hand card tricks.
We took pictures with the captain and toured the engine room before leaving the boat and Mr. Fujiki.
We headed 30 minutes further south to Kamakura where we met Mr. Tanaka and an ex-patriot named Karthick for a tour of several temples including a giant bronze Buddha.
Mr. Fujiki joins us, with two girls in tow, and we had dinner at a Korean BBQ place on the second level of a building that overlooked the beach. Katakura is so different in feeling to the structured Tokyo. It's a more relaxed beach town that reminds me a bit of Laguna Beach.
For after dinner drinks we were taken to a small bar where we were treated to the guitar stylings of two former members of the Japanese surf band, SHARP 5. I think they had mad a small splash some 20 years earlier but now they kind of have a two man act and play to the six patrons of this micro bar complete with mini light show and props. A real treat to sip ones scotch over.
Before we make the trek back to Tokyo we were driven to, the appropriately titled, TYCOON for desert. This is also owned by Mr. Fujiki and caters to all Asian styles of cooking except Japanese. I was totally stuffed from all this eating so I had some apple juice. I think I've had 30 gallons on this trip so far.
A late night drive back gave time to reflect over one of our biggest days yet. It's too late to connect with our friends again and we head off to bed.
We arrive at Yokahama a bit early for Mr. Fujiki and get driven around Chinatown for a bit. This is the largest Chinatown outside of China.
We get to the port terminal of Yokaham just in time for lunch and meet up with Mr. Fujiki and a friend who runs a sightseeing company locally. The Port Terminal is a modern design of steel and wood.
We boarded a giant buffet boat ship that Mr. Fujiki owns and headed up to the upper deck to eat. The ship was white, carried a crew of 50, had 5 levels and is well over 150 feet long. For lunch we had a Chinese buffet with accompaniment by a piano player and violin as the white flag of the ship flaps on the bow just out the front window.
We cruised around Yokahama harbor for a couple hours and had desert in Mr. Fujiki's State Room. I felt as if we were meeting a big crime boss since I was sitting across a giant wooden table from this good natured, rotund man in sunglasses. After some chatting a knock at the door brings in a balloon animal artist who conjured up a giraffe for OKI and a cat for myself. Oh no that wasn't all... Another man entered and 'dazzled' us with some sleight of hand card tricks.
We took pictures with the captain and toured the engine room before leaving the boat and Mr. Fujiki.
We headed 30 minutes further south to Kamakura where we met Mr. Tanaka and an ex-patriot named Karthick for a tour of several temples including a giant bronze Buddha.
Mr. Fujiki joins us, with two girls in tow, and we had dinner at a Korean BBQ place on the second level of a building that overlooked the beach. Katakura is so different in feeling to the structured Tokyo. It's a more relaxed beach town that reminds me a bit of Laguna Beach.
For after dinner drinks we were taken to a small bar where we were treated to the guitar stylings of two former members of the Japanese surf band, SHARP 5. I think they had mad a small splash some 20 years earlier but now they kind of have a two man act and play to the six patrons of this micro bar complete with mini light show and props. A real treat to sip ones scotch over.
Before we make the trek back to Tokyo we were driven to, the appropriately titled, TYCOON for desert. This is also owned by Mr. Fujiki and caters to all Asian styles of cooking except Japanese. I was totally stuffed from all this eating so I had some apple juice. I think I've had 30 gallons on this trip so far.
A late night drive back gave time to reflect over one of our biggest days yet. It's too late to connect with our friends again and we head off to bed.
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