Day 5 - Yokohama and Yokosuka!

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This was Super Bowl Monday Morning - 8AM in Japan.
Hooray, The Eagles winning, but more like, "Hooray, someone other than the Patriots winning!"
But the Eagles totally deserved it.

But that's all old and American news.

After the SuperBowl was over, we headed over to Masaki's train stop where he kindly stored our more bulky luggage, since domestic flights are a pretty hefty fee for checked luggage, and our backpacks are too large to be considered carry-ons for the Jetstar airline.
So, that was convenient.
We then went through Masaki's local grocery store and I got an Onigiri. It's a triangular-shaped hand-sized rice...packet, wrapped in the dry, crispy seaweed. The kind I got is Masaki's favorite, with pickled kelp in the middle. It was good. Perfect train food. We got on a train and headed to Yokohama. It took about 2 hours to get there. We found our Air B'n'B and rested for a minute or two, then got on another train for about an hour to Yokosuka.
The difference in the towns was startling.
In Odawara, everything is dainty, and charming and every building looks different. The same goes for Yokohama, except it's look is more urban, since it's a bigger city.
But Yokosuka was very different. I don't know if that's because it's more military, or because there's an American base nearby, but all the buildings are white and blocky. White buildings are a little weird in general, buildings that aren't hospitals and churches, and then put a lot of them in city-center, and it makes an impression. Not sure what kind of impression, but for me it was, "wow, there are a lot of white buildings."
  Where buildings in other places in Japan are, at most, 3 or 4 units wide, these were like American buildings, mostly. Dense and unseparated. And there's a lot less little personal touches. When we went down bar-alley there was a bit more expressive storefronts. Except the bars (playing a taped-delayed SuperBowl, from what I could gather looking inside), mostly everything was closed, though.

We were trying to find a place that served the famous Yokosuka Kaigan Curry, or Navy Curry.
We got a little turned around. And a lot of the curry places were closed, so it took us a while.
Anyway, we finally found Tsunami Kaigan Curry, which also sold ridiculously huge burgers.
But their curry is certified by the Japanese Navy as being authentic.
Part of what makes it authentic, is it has to be served with a salad and a glass of milk. The restaurant has also won curry awards as well.
It was delicious.
I love curry so much. And this was very good curry. It's very dark, which I haven't had before.
Yokosuka is very famous for it. They even have a little mascot statue at the station that's a white duck with a plate of curry. I was going to take a picture on the way back to the station, but we ended up leaving from a different station which was closer to where we were.
Anyway, Tsunami Kaigan Curry also had delicious Chou-hai drinks. I think I'm spelling that incorrectly...

Anyway, we ate, walked back to the station, found a Cozi Corner again, and had creampuffs and eclairs. Wayne had never had a creampuff. They are HUGE from Cozi Corner. like, as big as your hand.
Not complaining.
Not complaining at all.

So, we went back to Yokohama after that and Wayne and Masaki wanted to go into Bic Camera to look at games and such. I found Batman.

Then we went back to the Air B'n'B. It was almost 10PM at that point. So, we decided we would wake up extra early because we wanted to miss the morning rush of Tokyo. Mostly because I'm claustrophobic and seeing those videos of people cramming onto trains made my heart start racing a little.
I've been in really crowded trains and stations before. I caught the rush in London one time and got carried in a crush-point a good yard or two, with my feet not touching the ground. That is an experience I'd prefer not to have repeated.

It was  very nice of Wayne and Masaki to be willing to wake up really early so I could avoid the cram.

Next stop, Sapporo!