The second largest city in Japan after Tokyo’s combined 23 Wards Yokohama is Tokyo neighbour and can be accessed from Tokyo in as little as 20 minutes. Yokohama was Japan’s first port still has plenty of evidence of its foreign visitors and shipping past with its huge china town and port areas.
Centrally located on the east coast of Japan on the edge of Tokyo Bay Yokohama is the second largest city in Japan after Tokyo’s combined 23 Wards.
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One of the busiest stations in the Kanagawa Prefecture, Yokohama Station is a large railway station located in Yokohama’s CBD. Despite not being directly connected to the Shinkansen bullet train Yokohama Station is one of the main interchange stations for the Yokohama area.
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In Japan there seems to be a museum devoted to just about anything, so it stands to reason a museum devoted to the popular noodle dish Ramen would be a popular attraction.
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People have been fascinated with silk for thousands of years, especially in Japan where the material has historically been popular in the production of the kimono. Some of the first products transferred through the Yokohama port was silk so it stands to reason Yokohama should have a silk museum.
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Yokohama’s Chinatown is the biggest Chinatown in Asia and is a must on any visit to Yokohama.
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Minato Mirai 21 is a large suburb in Yokohama that has been part of an urban renewal program since the 1980′s. Often just called Minato Mirai the suburbs name was chosen by a vote and is said to mean “Harbor of the Future”. Prior to the 1980′s the area was home to shipyards and other port activities that Yokohama was famous for.
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Yokohama Cosmo World is an amusement park in Yokohama’s recently redeveloped waterfront district of Minato Mirai 21.
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Situated in front of Landmark Tower of Yokohama’s Minato Mirai 21 District the Yokohama Port Museum’s star attraction the sail training ship Nippon Maru’s sails tower above the museum.
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Yokohama’s Landmark Tower certainly lives up to its name. It is one of the more striking pieces of architecture in Japan and also its tallest skyscraper measuring in at 296 metres. The Eifel Tower inspired Tokyo Tower measures in a little higher at 333 metres but is only a steel tower and the viewing platform is lower than the Landmark’s.
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Towering over Yamashita Park, the Yokohama Marine Tower stands at 106 metres high making it the tallest lighthouse in the world.
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The Yokohama Anpanman Children’s Museum is an interactive museum dedicated to the very popular Japanese cartoon hero Anpanman.
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While Yokohama is a large city itself it position on Tokyo Bay gives it easy and quick access to its more famous neighbor, Tokyo. So close to Tokyo in fact that many people would make a daily commute between the two cities each day for work.
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This snack food is not like what its name suggests.