Yokohama City, Japan

Landmark Tower, tallest building in Japan

Cosmo World Ferris Wheel

Roller Coaster Display between Land Mark Tower and Queen's Square Mall

Snoopy Town

Pokemon Center

Disney Store

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Yokohama is the second largest city of Japan. It's about 40 minute trip from New Sanno Hotel (where we stayed during our trip in Tokyo) by train plus walk is almost an hour trip then ;-)

We had a short time walking around Landmark Tower and Queens Square and didn't have the chance to go to observation deck and other nice places nearby. My daughter had enjoyed the mall when we found out that they have sanrio, pokemon center, disney store and snoopy town. IAnd we didn't even go to the ferris wheel since we already tried the Odaiba one ;-P

By the way, the Cosmo World Clock (which can be seen on the ferris wheel itself) is the world's largest clock (wow!).

When Cosmo World first opened in 1989, it was the world's tallest Ferris wheel.

The current record holder of the largest ferris wheel is the 165-meter (541 ft) Singapore Flyer, which opened to the public in March 2008, which by the way I saw that too last year when we went to Singapore.

Pokemon Center Tokyo

Pokemon Center Tokyo, this is the entrance on the side of the building


Pokemon Center main entrance door


Main Entrance of the Pokemon Center Store


Pokemon toys


Pokemon video game (??)


Pikachu toys



Pikachu or Pichu stuffed toys

Pikachu's mouse

Another pokemon stuffed toys



Pokemon's Wii and Nintendo DS games


Pokemon cards

Pokemon Union Room across the Pokemon Center where you could play video games on that big monitor

Pokeball Video Game, my son's favorite game


My son, playing the pokeball game




View of Pokemon Center entrance on the left side of the building, second floor




Shinkansen (bullet train) passed by, in front of the Pokemon Center


Daimon Station, where we got off from the train
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Our 5 day trip in Tokyo, morning of Feb. 19, 2009- Pokemon Center, Tokyo

My son wanted to see the Pokemon Center in Tokyo , one of his requests for his 8th birthday gift. He is really a fan of pokemon even my daughter likes it. And so our first trip of that day was the Pokemon Center. We arrived there early, around 11am and we're lucky the store was not that crowded yet.

Across Pokemon Center on its other entrance (left side) is the Pokemon Union Room where you can play the video game on the big screen. No one was playing that time we didn't have any idea on how to play the game since the attendants can not speak English. So my son ended up playing the pokeball or the pokechip game which is now his favorite video game. He collects pokechips (aside from collecting pokemon cards) just to play that game, it's ¥ 100 for each pokechip. I wonder how he plays the game in Japanese ??? hahaha. Oh well kids are kids they have ways to understand the games.

Please leave a comment if you want to get the directions there, thanks.