Yokohama Navy Exchange was where?

Walkingfool
T0 answer your original question.
There was bus service between Kishine, running to various bases in the Kanto area, including the Navy Exchange Yokohama, Atsugi, Camp Zama ect.
The buses ran on a regular schedule. They were
"school buses" but painted the military olive drab.[green] I would assume that they made a stop at Yokohama Station or Sakaragacho, but as i never personally rode the buses I couldn't rightly say, but it is a fair assumption.
As I indicated, I would be willing to fill in any details of military life in that area that might be outstanding.
Hope this helps.

Thank you, Peter. That was very helpful. Let me know if you ever make it to NZ and I will give you a personalized tour of Christchurch.

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I never got too wrapped up in worrying about the anti-war movement. I saw it mainly as a bunch of spoiled kids being worried about being drafted and sent to Vietnam and a bunch of politicians and do-gooders egging them on. We did suffer a lot more casualties because of the anti-war movement but that is the price we pay for freedom. Some good people die to protect the right of others to act like fools. I had a liberal aunt in Arizona who was a big peace activist. It was always fun visiting when I was passing through Tucson.
I don't think desertion was as big a problem in the Marine Corps as it was in the Army and Navy. People who were going to desert didn't join the Marine Corps and if they did we usually screened them out during initial training.
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I was never aware of a bus from Yokohama Station to the Navy Exchange. If I had been aware of it I would surely have ridden it, rather than spending money on taxis and/or the trolley that ran down the middle of the street!

In my 3 1/2 years in Japan i must have gone through Yokohama Station dozens of times. I remember a complex of multi layered shops beneath it, where I bought my Seiko watch. I never saw a military bus there either, but with the trolly running every few minutes, why wait. The ride was 10 yen, cheap enough and who cared if it ran through the middle of the street, it was a wealth of local culture.
Question, where does the handle Weta Geiru come from ?

During 1953 - 1954 when I lived in Yokohama as an Army dependant, the Yokohama Navy Exchange was the Yokohama Army PX. Army buses ran from in front f the PX to all of the Army facilities in the area. These Army buses and the Japanese streetcars and trains were my main means of transportation in and around Yokohama as a dependant too young to drive.
When I returned to Yokohama as a Marine stationed at NAS Atsugi in late 1964 the Yokohama Army PX had become the Yokohama Navy Exchange. I visited the Yokohama Exchange one time to see if the buses still ran and found out they didn't. If the Navy had bus routes in Yokohama in 1964 - 1965, I didn't know about them. When I traveled to Yokohama I took the train from Yamato to Yokohama and then took taxis from the train station to places around Yokohama. I left Atsugi mid 1965.

Yokohama Taxis
I must havetaken a thousand of them, never drove, vlaued my life too much..there is a book here..any writers around ?

In the 1950s, there were three varieties of taxis working in front of the PX. They included tiny rear engine Renault sedans with fares starting at 60 yen. A little larger Datsun sedan's fare began at 70 yen. A larger and more comfortable Toyota's fare began at 80 yen.
In my pre-teen travels around Yokohama, I found the streetcar quite reliable and vastly cheaper. A round trip ticket cost 25 yen, less than a dime in US money. And in a collision with a cab, it was the streetcar that came out a winner.

I remember the taxis with the sticker in back with 60 or 80 yen. What most Americans didn't understand was that this was the price for the first zone only. The cost went up if you went further. I remember the loud excited arguments ignorant Americans would get into with taxi drivers over an extra twenty or thirty yen at their destination when the charge was more than the sticker, usually about ten of fifteen cents. These were the same people who were clueless when they really were getting ripped off somewhere else.
Yokohama taxis, like taxis everywhere, were an adventure to be enjoyed with your eyes closed. The Japanese taxis were a bargain then and relatively safe in spite of us calling them kamikaze taxis. The one time I've been involved in a taxi wreck was in Thailand when a drunk US Air Force guy from Udorn crashed into my taxi while it was stopped at an intersection. Taxis are only unsafe when they slow down or stop or when you open your eyes.

My folks and I visited the Philippine Islands back in 1959 or 60 and were in a cab near the airport. As we came to a stop in traffic, another cabby crashed into the back of our cab.
Our driver stepped out, produced a .45 auto pistol and fired four or five rounds at the offending driver.
The other driver pulled his pistol and let go with three or four shots in our direction, while my dad forced mom and I down on the floor of our cab.
The insult resolved, both drivers got back in their cabs and continued on. Neither of the cabs were hit in the exchange of gunfire.

So much to say, so little time! First of all, Peter is right, there was military bus service connecting all the U.S. military bases in the Kanto Plains area, and they were school buses painted military colors, some were Army OD, some were Navy gray and some were Air Force blue. There were at least two buses every day of the week making the rounds, one bus went clockwise and the other counterclockwise. I know this for a fact, because I used to take the bus to Atsugi and back to Kishine about once a month to pick up my eight bottle booze ration. I also went to Camp Zama a couple of times. It was a slow means of transportation, because you hit every base and housing area, but you knew you would eventually get to your destination. I think I have a copy of the bus schedule 1967-68 somewhere in my mementos, but it would be an all-day job to find it.

Taxis. I would take taxi rides right after payday, when I was rich. They all had plastic covers on the rear seats, and I would slide from one side to the other during the trip. Taxis were more dangerous to pedestrians than to the passengers. I remember late one night when the driver left a little old lady spinning around in the street over in Peter�fs neighborhood. Come to think of it, that might have been Peter in drag.

Taxis were still 60, 70, or 80 yen for the first [something--kilometer or 1/2, perhaps] in 1961-63, again depending on the size and make of the car. We owned an ex-60 yen cab for a while. Pieces would fall off it mid-ride or scrape along the street.

Peter, wata geiru is my name. First name (surname), translate from J to E. Second name (given name), sound out.

Wata Geiru
Thank you for helping me understand your name.
help me more..Wata is your first name and Geiru is your second name. Is this right ?
Don't wish to pry,you are Japanese right ? Your english is so perfect.

Gail Cotton?

Hi Dave-san
Yes maybe. I have the Weta as cotton or wool.
[fabric] but didn't make the Geiru . Gale ?
[storm ?] I love translating names. We did this around the "office" one day. The transliteration and interperation is very cool.

Dave-san
did a little more research..you nailed it
I've got ..Gail Cotton.. as you did.
This Japanese name translates very nicely to English.

Yes, that is correct, Dave-san and Peter. :-)

Very clever! I should have thought of doing that with my name. Dave translates very nicely to Dabu but Horne might be a problem. I suspect I would get an entirely different meaning with Horne than with Horn. I started using Dave-san to distinguish myself from someone who had earlier posted as Dave.
You are an American who lived in Japan at some point as a military dependant, ne?

Dave-san

Your last name is not a problem..

Horn= tsuno

the problem comes with ne..ne?
as in Horn-ne.

sorry..im tired tonight.