Day trip to Yokohama
We went on another day tour, this time to Yokohama. On the way we stopped off at the man made island / parking lot / attraction, called Umi-hotaru, that forms the intersection of the tunnel and bridge sections of the Tokyo Bay Aqua-Line.
This thing is an engineering marvel. 10km long tunnel, and 4.5km long bridge (I guess they couldn't decide which to build, so they did both).
If you've got google earth check it out ( 35°27'45.93"N, 139°52'36.55"E).
We can actually see it from our house, on a clear day, and there is a ventilation shaft / tower half way along the tunnel section. This vent thing is actually another man made island that is very strange looking, from our balcony it looks like a huge disk shaped thing out in the middle of the bay. You can see it in a photo here.
We also went to a place called SeaParadise just south of Yokohama. The pic in the previous post was taken there in an area called Dolphin Fantasy. Really cool place, we only had a couple of hours there so we will have to go back again to see it all. And I wouldn't mind seeing the Aqua Stadium show again, dolphins and seals doing cool stuff.
Ive also just posted a couple of new photos on flickr. This one of the moon over Daiba, and this one of the Hanabi (fireworks) in Asakusa on the weekend.
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