Yokohama

Today we decided to take the train to Yokohama to visit Rani in her city. Although it is Japan's second largest city with 3.7 million residents, it felt empty compared with Tokyo's 13 million. Rani lives in a cute little residential hilly neighborhood about half an hour by metro from the center of Yokohama. (And half an hour by metro from Tokyo, so she is actually in between the two.)

One of the neighbors has this crazy garden and he invited us in to look at it.

We saw the 'social apartment' where Rani lives; sort of like a dorm with a large communal kitchen, living room and workout room. But one of the attractions of Yokohama we went to go visit was the Cup Noodles Museum, dedicated to Momofuku Ando, the inventor of instant Ramen and CupNoodles.

We got to make our own flavor in a cup.

He is considered a very famous inventor.