Trip to Yokohama (2) - Sea Bass and round trip to Shibuya

After lunch, I strolled around Chinatown and walked to Yamashita Park. It is a long narrow park along the seaside. There I saw a large passenger ship Hikawa Maru that made the first voyage in 1930, survived the war, and is used as a museum now. 

While looking at this large ship, I heard a whistle from somewhere. It excited me, and I felt like going for a cruise. So, I took an ocean bus Yokohama Sea Bass from Yamashita Park to Yokohama Station via tourist destinations Minato Mirai 21 and Yokohama Red Brick Warehouse. 

This is Yokohama Bay Bridge with length of 860m. The wind was not cold even on the sea, thought it was December.

  

This is Minato Mirai 21, an urban area meaning "harbor of the future."

It was difficult to take pictures of Yokohama Red Brick Warehouse closely. Red Brick Warehouse No.1 and No.2 were completed in 1911 and 1913 respectively. They were used as customs houses. Now they are used as a cultural facility and a shopping mall and restaurant arcade. 

It took about 35 minutes to get to Yokohama Station. From there, I went to Shibuya in Tokyo by JR trains as I used Seishun 18 also yesterday that allows unlimited train rides of the day. Shibuya is one of the most crowded area in Tokyo, and I was there for the first time in seven years. It was difficult to walk through the extreme crowd, but the destination was near the station. It was The Bunkamura Museum of Art that held an exhibition called “Romantic Russia.” It was a collection of oil paintings of Russian natural scenery and people from the State Tretyakov Gallery.

As I always like to see realistic paintings, I also enjoyed this exhibition. It was divided into Russian four seasons and people. I was especially impressed by “Midday in the Outskirts of Moscow” by Ivan Shishkin with peasants walking on vast land under vast sky. A scenery with vast sky gives me a feel of freedom.

Unfortunately, I couldn’t spend much time in the museum, because I had another place to go. I returned to Shibuya Station and found the Hachiko statue with a red-and-white scarf. It is a statue of a dog that came to Shibuya Staion every day to wait for his master even after the master passed away. Faithful Hachiko is a landmark of Shibuya, and a movie about him has been made (Hachi: A Dog's Tale) in the U.S.