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Yokohama Stadium

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    • Day 6

      Yokohama DeNA BayStars v Yakult Swallows

      July 16, 2018 in Japan ⋅ 🌙 28 °C

      Yokohama is about an hour south of Tokyo, but it seems like it takes an hour to get places within Tokyo, so I find the whole distance thing here a bit confusing.

      The stadium is small - about 30k seats, and it was mostly full on a hot sticky weeknight, so the BayStars definitely draw. They don't win much, but this season they have won a few more than the Swallows, so they are both at the bottom of the Central Nippon League.

      Local kids stand on the field to greet they players as they are announced, and the players run out and meet the kids and sign their jerseys...it's a sweet way to start the game! The crowd chants the whole game, and the chants change to include each batters name as they come up (only the fans of the batting team chant.) We grabbed some bento boxes, a cucumber on a stick and some beer, got our seats and proceeded to chant along when we could figure out how.

      Girls go up and down the aisles constantly (every 5 minutes no exaggeration) dressed in the colors of the brand of beer they are selling with a mini keg on their backs. They smile and wave and look super happy, but they are the only Japanese women so far that I have seen break a sweat. There is a lot of beer consumed, and a lot of bento boxes.

      After so much running around the last couple of days, we only lasted about 4 innings before we headed home to bed, but it was a super cool experience and the boys definitely noticed differences between the baseball and and the baseball at home.
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    • Day 30

      Yokohama

      September 28, 2018 in Japan ⋅ 🌧 24 °C

      Zwei Tage nach Akihabara bin ich mit Timm nach Yokohame eingeladen worden, von Yuri, der Schwester meiner Japanischlehrerin. Genauer gesagt hat sie uns in das Izakaya, eine Art japanischer Pub, in dem sie arbeitet eingeladen. Das Izakaya ist in Yokohama, also eine Stunde Zugfahrt von Tokyo weg und leider entsprechend teuer. Allerdings hat sich der Abend sehr gelohnt. Was Yuri nämlich nicht gesagt hat: an genau diesem Abend wurde im Izakaya ein Geburtstag gefeiert und wir als Deutsche mittendrin. Japaner sind allerdings ein geselliges Völkchen sobald sie in einem Izakaya oder Restaurant sitzen, insofern war das alles umso besser. Nun ist es allerdings auch so gewesen, dass Yuir als Einzige gut Englisch konnte und wir uns mit unseren paar Brocken Japanisch durchgekämpft haben. Der Vorteil, dass wir abends da waren, lag darin, dass Japan bei Nacht erst wirklich imposant ist. Denn dann fallen alle Lichter auf und vor allem das Viertel in dem wir waren war recht modern und groß.

      Two days after my trip to Akihabara, Timm and me were invited to Yokohama by Yuki, the sister of my japanese teacher, who works there in an Izakaya, which is basically a japanese pub. The Izakaya is in Yokohame, so roughly one hour by train from Tokyo, which means it's also pretty expensive to get there, unfortunately, but it was completely worth it. What Yuri didn't mention was, that there was a birthday being celebrated at the exact same time, so it was pretty lively in the Izakaya. Fortunately, Japanese are a very friendly in groups, when sitting in an Izayaka or restaurant, so it was no problem at all. The thing was, Yuri was the only one with good english so we were forced to try to make use of our very limited japanese but it was hilarious and we kind of understood what the other one was saying. A big advantage was being there at night, because in the night time, Japan is even more impressing since there are light everywhere and the district of Yokohama we were in, was pretty modern and big.
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