Yokohama Tourism
Yokohama is the second-largest city in
Japan by population[1] and by area, and the
country's most populous municipality.It
is the capital and most populous city in
Kanagawa Prefecture, with a population of
3.7 million in 2023. It lies on Tokyo Bay,
south of Tokyo, in the Kantō region of the
main island of Honshu. Yokohama is also the
major economic, cultural, and commercial hub
of the Greater Tokyo Area along the Keihin
Industrial Zone.
Yokohama was one of the cities to open for
trade with the West following the 1859 end
of the policy of seclusion and has since
been known as a cosmopolitan port city,
after Kobe opened in 1853. Yokohama is the
home of many Japan's firsts in the Meiji
period, including the first foreign trading
port and Chinatown (1859), European-style
sport venues (1860s), English-language
newspaper (1861), confectionery and beer
manufacturing (1865), daily newspaper
(1870), gas-powered street lamps (1870s),
railway station (1872), and power plant
(1882). Yokohama developed rapidly as
Japan's prominent port city following the
end of Japan's relative isolation in the
mid-19th century and is today one of its
major ports along with Kobe, Osaka, Nagoya,
Fukuoka, Tokyo and Chiba.
Yokohama is the largest port city and high
tech industrial hub in the Greater Tokyo
Area and the Kantō region. The city proper
is headquarters to companies such as Isuzu,
Nissan, JVCKenwood, Keikyu, Koei Tecmo,
Sotetsu and Bank of Yokohama. Famous
landmarks in Yokohama include Minato Mirai
21, Nippon Maru Memorial Park, Yokohama
Chinatown, Motomachi Shopping Street,
Yokohama Marine Tower, Yamashita Park, and
Ōsanbashi Pier..
Getting
to Yokohama
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