As we heard it would rain all day I woke up surprised with some sun outside, took a nice breakfast and walk outside, during that single hour weather changed dramatically from sun into dark grey clouds. Not impressed (we as Belgian are used to that kind of weather.), we took the Toyoko line from our station here to Yokohama.
They told me Osaka was the 2nd biggest city in Japan, my guide tells me it’s Yokohama, anyway you really can feel the difference, Yokohama is not so hectic, at least that’s my experience of it, people are also different and Yokohama has the biggest “China Town” in the country. That’s actually where we were going to right after our walk in a nice park by the Yokohama bay. There, my girl and I witnessed something interesting, on the dock in front of us there was a big machine spider, probably build in Japan to be exported somewhere, so watch out for a movie about a big spider in the near future, I gave you the scoop aight?!
This park gives you a nice view on Yokohama’s skyline, with one of the tallest, if not the tallest building in Japan. From there we went to “China Town“, it is big actually but I thought it would be even bigger, I was a bit dissapointed, although we had a good Chinese meal I didn’t see a lot of interesting things except panda gadgets and Chinese outfits. And if that wasn’t enough, rain fell from the sky, rain like in rainforests, hard and non-stop so we decided to leave Yokohama as soon as possible to Tokyo.
Arriving in Tokyo we were searching the store dedicated to workmen, something we couldn’t find 2 years ago. Workmen? Yes, because they have the craziest style ever, wearing these large pants and the ninja shoes, they are actually the only ones wearing that shit. I found a couple of pants there, i don’t think i’ll wear them here but once i’m home I might sport these pants hard, dope style. Anyway, after that I passed by the Jazzy Sport shop to say hello to Masaya, Grooveman Spot, Gaku and Shegiru, I also got introduced to Coma-Chi, the female rapper an fly-girl on Jazzy Sport who was on the Shibuya billboard screens for two weeks, say whuuuut!! Ow, and forgot to tell you about these two cops who came to me in Shibuya, “hello Sir“, they asked me a lot of things in Japanese and I was completely lost in translation on that one, then I said the magic word, “you need I.D.?“, they said “yes, yes!!!!” and asking me “sightseeing, sightseeing?“, (I heard the cops are in “alert mode” or something like that), it was all good when my girl came back next to me and cops asked me “wife?” and i said “kinda…” haha.
Rainshowers hit Tokyo tonite and we had an appointment with roommate Kosuke, he’s into fixed gear bikes and all that stuff, showing me movies like skate movies but then about bikers in the streets, interesting. We would meet at the Roppongi station, actually at the Mori tower, the same building that hosts J-Wave radio station and where I’ll do a radioshow on thursday. The theatre looks futuristic, with projections on the wall at the entrance, water coming down the walls, trailers playing behind the counter, everything looks clean, we checked “The International“, good movie on banks and corruption, really makes you realise how deep we’re into this shit. The movie finished around midnite, catched a metro who was so crowded by people coming from their jobs, and got finally home wet like I jumped in a pool with my clothes on and sitting here to write you this story…isn’t it great haha?
Sayonara 
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