Raining Trees

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The first night that I was in Yokohama, I didn’t really have anything in particular to do at night, so I ran around looking for a pharmacy for some stuff I needed.  There was one listed on the map, but I couldn’t find it for the life of me.  I stopped into a couple different convenience stores to look around and then to ask, and one woman walked me all the way to where the Tanabe pharmacy was supposed to be, but the door was closed, and it didn’t even match up with where it was supposed to be on the map anyway.  I ran to a hotel and asked them, but they said probably everything was closed anyway.

 

It really wasn’t that late, and I wondered what people did if they needed medicine in Yokohama after approximately 7pm.

 

Anyway, I was supposed to meet some friends later, so I started running back toward the boat from the hotel.  Out of the corner of my eye, I saw some lights going downward, so I looked closer.  In a number of the trees throughout Yokohama, they have these awesome lights.  It’s sort of hard to describe.  Imagine just taking a long and thin piece of paper and hanging it over a tree branch.  The lights were sort of in that shape.  A very bright light would work its way down each strip, and behind it the lights would get dimmer and bluer.  It was super pretty.  I felt in a rush, so I ran over to take a picture of it, and then ran back to the boat.

 

It was a long time before I went out.