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We ate lunch at McDonald's. I love the Shake Shake chicken! It is just a breaded chicken patty in a bag. It comes with a packet of seasoning. You dump the seasoning into the bag and then shake it so that it flavors the chicken patty. There are 3 flavors available: cheese, lemon, and black pepper. The cheese is my favorite.



Then we headed to Yokohama. The first place on our list was Chinatown. Here's a picture of the station near Chinatown.



















The ramen museum is made up of a bunch of restaurants serving different styles of ramen from the various regions of Japan. I don't remember which region's ramen we ate, but it was soy sauce ramen. :)


The last thing we did in Yokohama was ride the ferris wheel. It's called Cosmo Clock 21 and it's tied with a ferris wheel in Osaka as the 13th tallest ferris wheel in the world. It was the tallest when it was built. When it was first built it was 107.5 meters tall. Then the ferris wheel in Osaka was built and it was 112.5 meters. So they rebuilt the Cosmo Clock 21 onto a new base so that it was also 112.5 meters.

We ate lunch at Becker's. It was really good. I had some sort of Turkey croissant and a french fry bowl. The fries had barbecue sauce, cheese, and bacon on them. :)


Later in the day we went to Harajuku. We went to a different street this time. The one we visited first (Takeshita) had a lot of cheap clothing stores. The area we went to this night (Omotesando) had a lot of expensive stores. The Swarovski store was really sparkly! :)


Well, not all the stores are super expensive. Kiddy Land is also there. It's full of cute character merchandise!






When we got back to the hotel we relaxed and enjoyed the awesomeness of Japanese television. Well, it's not usually very good, but we were entertained by various musical performances, including boy bands such as Arashi.

But first, here is a picture of our hotel.

We went to breakfast at McDonalds. I had an Egg McMuffin... it tasted just like the ones in America... yay!

In Hamamatsucho Station we stopped to take a picture with Arashi. They are a really popular boy band here in Japan. And I really mean POPULAR. I see them on TV a lot. They even have their own game show called Vs. Arashi (yeah, I've watched it, lol). Their ads are everywhere in the cities. I've seen them advertise tons of things including Wii games, cell phones, beer, and more.



























Next, we headed to Roppongi to find this cool karaoke place we had seen online. However, it wasn't open yet when we got there and we figured out that you had to buy dinner there too (which was expensive). So we didn't spend much time in Roppongi, but here's a picture.



















Lauren was really wanting some light saber chopsticks she had seen online. We really had no idea where to look for them though. We hadn't been in any stores that seemed like they would sell them. After wandering around Akihabara for a while we headed back towards the station. We stopped in one last store along the way. It had a lot of anime and character merchandise. As we were about to leave the store Lauren spotted the chopsticks!!!! It was very exciting. I hadn't planned on buying any but it was so exciting that she actually found them that I decided I wanted some too. So I bought a pair of Darth Vader light saber chopsticks. I later ate my yakisoba from 7-11 with them. :)


After eating konbini food in the hotel room we headed back out to do karaoke. Karaoke in Japan is a lot different than in the US. You rent a room and just hang out with your friends. You don't have to sing in front of random people. It's a lot of fun!