Well, after all this time in Japan we finally made a major traveling error yesterday -
definitely lost in translation because of our lack of the Japanese language! We were taking the Shinkansen bullet train to Yokohama, rode right past our stop, and had to stay on the train another hour and a half before the next stop at Nagoya! That necessitated another hour and a half return to Yokohama. We took advantage of our error with a 3-hour nap on a very relaxing and quiet train ride and a closer view of Mt. Fuji.
So we arrived in Yokohama at 1:00p instead of 10:00a, but still had enough time to stroll on the revitalized waterfront and to Chinatown - the largest outside of China except for San Francisco. We were looking forward to a Chinese meal like we have in California,
but even in Yokohama Chinese restaurants are owned by Japanese - so our dinner was really Chinese, Japanese-style.
Well, after all this time in Japan we finally made a major traveling error yesterday - definitely lost in translation because of our lack of the Japanese language! We were taking the Shinkansen bullet train to Yokohama, rode right past our stop, and had to stay on the train another hour and a half before the next stop at Nagoya! That necessitated another hour and a half return to Yokohama. We took advantage of our error with a 3-hour nap on a very relaxing and quiet train ride and a closer view of Mt. Fuji.
So we arrived in Yokohama at 1:00p instead of 10:00a, but still had enough time to stroll on the revitalized waterfront and to Chinatown - the largest outside of China except for San Francisco. We were looking forward to a Chinese meal like we have in California, 
but even in Yokohama Chinese restaurants are owned by Japanese - so our dinner was really Chinese, Japanese-style.
