The Bold and The Bardill's: Yoko..o-oh!

I can see my bank balance fading away with every step we take in Yokohama...

Urban and Ocean Towers - Yokohama

Landmark Tower Shops

Today Naoko-san and Keiko-san took Kept Ninja and me for a tour of Yokohama. We started in Landmark Tower- a 5 storey department store with lots of restaurants and shops... drool. The station I take to work is just below this tower... in the words of Ripper... alllllllright! We then walked through some open courtyards and discovered our local shops (200m from our "potential" apartment)... they include a huge electronic store, the most gigantic sports store I've ever seen (MTC will be in heaven here), a book/dvd store, and an IKEA-equivalent store - bliss!!! We later returned unguided and bought a few things...

My new ski jacket and super attractive padded ski pants

Japanese diffuser

Motomachi street

We then caught a quick metro link to Motomachi which is the centre of Yokohama - including a long shopping road and Chinatown. The shopping street is soooo lovely - has the usual designer stores - Gap, Zara, Louis Vutton, Longchamps, Coach, etc. I was somewhat distracted by the shops so we didn't enter Chinatown, but there are suppose to be some good restaurants in there. I got a jumper from Victorinox... another necessity for our skiing adventure in 3 weeks time.

Delicious, large mirror at Dean & Deluca

Our guides also told us about Kamata, which is the fabric district, home to Yuzawaya, which is suppose to have it all - shall explore soon and give the K-town girls the D/L :)

Segue from our shopping adventures to the fact that we are suppose to be saving for our house, to be built upon return to Oz... I'm picking up some architectural and interior design tips - here are a few snaps...