One of the clearest indicators of an オッシャレデートスポット is a Ferris wheel (観覧車 kanransha). The one at Minato Mirai is beautiful, and huge, but we couldn't ride it because it was the one day of the year that it wasn't open. So we took pictures instead.
It was windy.
Yokohama is totally cute. We also had an adventure trying to figure out where all these gothic kids were coming from... at first we thought they just like to hang out at Minato Mirai, but eventually we followed them and found out the cause: a Nightmare concert in the convention hall. They did the OP and ED to the first half of Death Note... unfortunately, those are their only good songs. I really love that fashion though, and want to try it out sometime. It's so fancy though, so it's expensive. But we had a great time checking out all these kids in their crazy outfits.
We had a great time eating delicious tonkatsu (fried pork cutlets) with Koizumi-sensei at a restaurant which overlooked the street by Yokohama Station, which was delightfully filled with taxis and pretty lights (I'm an absolute sucker for nice cityscapes). It was so great to see her, and she told us that she just signed a contract with Oberlin and is coming back in the fall! I told her everyone is going to be so excited to hear, and it's true. Man, I love Oberlin, and Oberlin's presence in Japan is also pretty fabulous. I'm glad I picked a school with a great East Asian Studies program by coincidence.
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