Tales of Nippon: Enero 14, January 14th

La visita le toco en esta ocacion aun pueblo, Yokosuka, en el que transcurren los hechos de un video juego llamada Shenmue que mi amigo jugo hace muchos anyos. Este sitio da al mar, aunque aun no nos explicamos porque habia tres submarinos con la bandera imperial de Japon, en primera porque se supone que Japon no puede tener ningun tipo de ejercito, marina o fuerza aerea; en segundo porque la bandera imperial... bueno, que creo que seria como poner la bandera de Franco en Espana.
Aqui nos llevamos una sorpresa, ya que de repente nos vimos transportados a Estaduos Unidos de Norteamerica, durante media calle todo estaba en ingles y no habia ni un japones a la vista. Giramos la mirada y descubrimos la razon, habia una base de la marina de los EEUU.

Luego fuimos a Kamakura, cada uno queriendo ver una cosa, ademas el pueblo esta lleno de templos y cosas asi. Yo queria ver la cueva en donde unos cuantos cientos de samurais se hicieron el harakiri al morir su senor, mi amigo queria ver el segundo Buda mas grande de Japon (el primero esta en Nara, y como lo habia visto en mi pasado viaje a Japon, no me hacia ilusion), al final vimos este y nada mas.

Luego fuimos a Yokohama, la segunda ciudad mas grande de Japon, despues de y junto a Tokyo. Tras al fin lograr salir de los laberintos subterraneos de una combinacion de la estacion con unos centros comerciales logramos salir al aire libre. Tomamos un ferry que nos acerco a la noria (rueda de la fortuna), la cual era nuestra meta. Y si, subimos, siendo nosotros tres cuando en general solo suelen subir parejas, ya que va muy lenta y es muy alta.

The visit this time was to a town, Yokosuka, where the story of a video game called Shenmue my friend play many years ago took place. This place is next to the sea, we still can't explain how there where three submarines with the Imperial flag, first because Japan isn't supposed to have an army, air force or navy if I recall correctly, and because the Imperial flag... well, let's just say it's not supposed to be very popular now a days.
We had a surprise here, for half a street we found ourselves in the middle of the United States of America, everything was in English and there was not one Japanese in sight, we turned our heads and found the reason, there was a US Navy base right next to us.
Then we went to Kamakura, each one of us wanting to see a different thing, there are many temples and other things there, I wanted to see the cave where several hundread samurais comited harakiri when they lord died, my friend wanted to see the second bigest Buddha in Japan (the bigest one is in Nara, and since I had seen it the last time I was in Japan, I wasn't quite eager), in the end we just saw that.
Then we went to Yokohama, Japan's second largest city, right after and next to Tokyo. After finally being able to get out of the underground maze made from the train station and some malls, we where able to get some fresh air. We took a ferry all the way next to the wheel of fortune, which was our goal. And yes, we rode it, even tought we where three and it's mostly rode by couples since it's really slow and reaaly high.