Yokohama

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Minato Mirai 21, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan

Sky Garden Yokohama Landmark Tower, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan

About Yokohama

Yokohama was a small fishing village until 1859, when it became one of the first Japanese ports opened to foreign trade. Merchants, missionaries and Chinese traders soon followed, and that cosmopolitan start still shapes the city: a lively Chinatown, Western-style houses on the Bluff and a waterfront built for strolling. Today it is Japan's second most populous city, home to about 3.7 million people.

The great earthquake of 1923 and wartime bombing destroyed much of the old port, and Yamashita Park was built on the rubble. Since the 1980s the old shipyards have become Minato Mirai 21, a district of towers, museums, a giant Ferris wheel and harborside promenades, while the red-brick customs warehouses now hold shops and events. Ramen and instant noodles both have museums here, a sign of how seriously the city takes its food.

Trains from central Tokyo reach Yokohama in around half an hour, and Haneda Airport is close by. Shinkansen services stop at Shin-Yokohama, making it an easy first or last night in Japan.

Best seasonMarch-May and October-November

Ideal stay1-2 days

ArrivingTrains from Tokyo; Haneda Airport; Shinkansen to Shin-Yokohama

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Neighborhoods 3

Minato Mirai 21

Built since the 1980s on the site of old shipyards, this waterfront district is Yokohama's showpiece, with skyscrapers, shopping m...

Yokohama Chinatown

The largest Chinatown in Japan packs hundreds of restaurants, bakeries and shops into a grid of streets entered through ornate gat...

Yamate Bluff

The hillside Bluff above the harbor was the foreign residential quarter of the treaty-port days, and it keeps a cluster of restore...

Viewpoints 2

Sky Garden Yokohama Landmark Tower

The observation deck on the 69th floor of the Yokohama Landmark Tower, about 273 metres up, looks over the harbor, the Bay Bridge...

Osanbashi Pier

Yokohama's international passenger terminal, completed in 2002, is known for its rolling wooden rooftop that rises and dips like a...

Parks 2

Sankeien Garden

Created by the silk merchant Hara Sankei and opened to the public in 1906, this large Japanese garden gathers historic buildings m...

Yamashita Park

Laid out on rubble from the Great Kanto Earthquake and opened in 1930, this seafront park stretches along the harbor with lawns, r...

Shopping 1

Yokohama Red Brick Warehouse

These two handsome brick buildings were completed in 1911 and 1913 as customs warehouses for the port. Restored and reopened in 20...

History 1

Hikawa Maru

Launched in 1929, this ocean liner entered service in 1930 on the route between Yokohama and Seattle and later served as a hospita...

Museums 1

Cup Noodles Museum Yokohama

This playful museum in Minato Mirai celebrates Momofuku Ando, who created the first instant noodles in 1958, through displays on h...

Food and Drink 1

Shin-Yokohama Ramen Museum

Opened in 1994 near Shin-Yokohama station, this food theme park recreates a Tokyo streetscape of 1958 in its basement, complete wi...

Family 1

Hakkeijima Sea Paradise

On an artificial island in Kanazawa ward, this marine leisure park combines several aquariums with amusement rides, shops and seas...

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