Porture

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The port of Yokohama is actually pretty awesome.  It’s mostly a wooden-looking structure, and has tons of different angles and circles and levels and layers and tubes and tunnels and etc.  It’s typically easy enough to navigate though.

 

The first night in Yokohama, I went to a karaoke bar called The Big Echo with some friends.  After we were done, we started to walk back – roughly ten blocks to the port.  One of my friends REALLY needed to go to the bathroom and was talking about it most of the way back.  I felt sorry for her.  She wasn’t complaining about it annoying, she was just being funny, but I knew that I’d really be in pain.  She mentioned that she’d just go to the bathroom on the street if this were America.

 

Anyway, we got to the port.  For the entire rest of the day, we would just walk straight in the doors and go to the ship’s security.  But this time the main doors were closed.  So we went sideways, and we walked pretty much to the gangway.  But then it was closed off.  So we had to go up and around a tunnel, and it went pretty much all the way back to where we had started near the main doors.  Then it turned around and took us all the way back, finally getting to the gangway.  It was an extra five minutes or so of walking, and it happened for the first time when my friend was expecting to just walk to the doors and go.  I felt really awful for her.