Passenger Port Terminal
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Tokyo is known as a very expensive city, yet it's not necessarily so, therefore take your time to spend at least two days outside the city. Although Mount Fuji is the most renowned destination away from crowd and noise of the multi-million city, none the less poetic offer is made by modern architecture. Looking at the map, Yokohama seems as a separate seaport town, although it long since belongs to Tokyo agglomeration. Also going by train, you will not have a feeling of leaving the city. Yokohama is an important junction of Tokyo public transportation network, and getting there is fast and easy - just 35 minutes. Arriving there, you may have an urge of ascending the Japan's highest building, the Landmark Tower, yet you can also head straight to the Passenger Port Terminal, strolling slowly along the seafront.
The Terminal building with its landscape-like roof presents a radically new approach in contemporary architecture - not for nothing the project occupied the whole of the British pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2002. Its authors, Foreign Office Architects, have developed a digitally calculated yet conceptually shaped public space that literally melts into the surrounding landscape. It is a genuine urban oasis - a public gathering place that's never crowded and offers a relaxed, beach-like ambiance. Don't forget to grab your camera to memorize your own creative outbursts that the magnificent fusion of the nature and architecture may provoke, be it singing, dancing or even flying. You can have a lunch there, visit Yokohama Doll Museum and admire artists painting old houses and fishermen boats.
Osanbashi Yokohama International Passenger Terminal
1-1-4 Kaigandori, Naka-ku
Yokohama City
Kanagawa 231-0002
www.osanbashi.com
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