Japanese baseball

We went to our first Japanese baseball game last Wednesday night (May 2). It was at Yokohama Stadium and the Yokohama Baystars played the Hanshin Tigers. Dean has now adopted the Hanshin Tigers as his team, even though they lost!
The Japanese take their baseball very seriously - the fans are rabid and very noisy. They sing and bang plastic baseball bats together the whole time their team is batting in every innings. The singing and cheering is led by special cheer people with little white gloves!
We were in the thick of it - two foreigners in a sea of black heads.
It was fun to see how they eat at the baseball - lots of Japanese food and beer. They have little bento boxes and japanese hamburgers (beef sandwiched between rice!). Even funnier were the uniformed men running around with big plastic bags collecting the rubbish from people - they are so obsessed with cleanliness. No rubbish, empty cans, nothing left on the ground....amazing!
More photos here.