Yokohama

Yokohama (Japanese: 横浜code: ja is deprecated , Hepburn: Yokohama, pronounced [jokohama] ( listen)) is a Japanese city in Kanagawa Prefecture on the island of Honshū.

横浜市code: ja is deprecated
Designated city
City of Yokohama
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Flag of Flag Official seal of Seal
Map of Kanagawa Prefecture with Yokohama highlighted in purple Map of Kanagawa Prefecture with Yokohama highlighted in purple
Coordinates: 35°26′39″N 139°38′17″E
Country	Japan
Region	Kantō
Prefecture	Kanagawa Prefecture
Government
• Mayor	Takeharu Yamanaka
Area
• Total	437.38 km2 (168.87 sq mi)
Population  (October 1, 2016)
• Total	3,732,616
• Density	8,534.03/km2 (22,103.0/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+9 (Japan Standard Time)
– Tree	Camellia, Chinquapin, Sangoju Sasanqua, Ginkgo, Zelkova
– Flower	Rose
Address	6-50-10 Honchō, Naka-ku, Yokohama-shi, Kanagawa-ken 231-0005
Website	www.city.yokohama.lg.jp

Yokohama
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"Yokohama" in new-style (shinjitai) kanji
Japanese name
Hiragana	よこはまcode: ja is deprecated
Kyūjitai	橫濱code: ja is deprecated
Shinjitai	横浜code: ja is deprecated
Transcriptions - Romanization Yokohama

Yokohama is the capital of Kanagawa Prefecture in the Kantō region. Yokohama is a neighbor city of Tokyo. It has been the second largest city of Japan since the 1980s.

Yokohama has an international trade seaport. It is the largest port in Japan. Many cars and machinery are exported from the port. The downtown area is around the port. Today, the area of Yokohama city includes its former suburb areas like Hodogaya or Totsuka.

In Minato Mirai, there are a lot of places for sightseeing. For example, there are amusement parks and shopping malls.

Yokohama was an entrance for foreign cultures for a long time. Still today Yokohama has the largest Chinatown in Japan.

The airports nearest to Yokohama are Tokyo International Airport and Narita International Airport.

Many educational institutes are located in Yokohama, including Yokohama National University and Yokohama City University.

History

The Yokohama port was created in the middle of the 19th century for foreigners. It was five ports opened to foreign countries who demanded that Japan open its ports. And Yokohama was the nearest port to Tokyo, which was then called Edo.

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Hodogaya — ukiyo-e woodblock print by Hiroshige, circa 1832

Ship Museum Hikawa Maru

In the Edo period, Hodogaya-juku was one of the fifty-three shogunate-maintained waystations (shuku-eki) along the Tōkaidō road which connected Edo and Kyoto. Two other Tōkaidō rest stops are within the boundaries of modern Yokohama—in Kanagawa ward and Totsuka ward.

Wards of Yokohama

• Aoba-ku, Yokohama
• Asahi-ku, Yokohama
• Hodogaya-ku, Yokohama
• Isogo-ku, Yokohama
• Izumi-ku, Yokohama

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Kanagawa — ukiyo-e woodblock print by Hiroshige, circa 1832

• Kanagawa-ku, Yokohama
• Kanazawa-ku, Yokohama
• Kouhoku-ku, Yokohama
• Kounan-ku, Yokohama
• Midori-ku, Yokohama
• Minami-ku, Yokohama
• Naka-ku, Yokohama
• Nishi-ku, Yokohama
• Sakae-ku, Yokohama
• Seya-ku, Yokohama

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Totsuka — ukiyo-e woodblock print by Hiroshige, circa 1832

• Totsuka-ku, Yokohama
• Tsurumi-ku, Yokohama
• Tsuzuki-ku, Yokohama

Yokohama Media

• Kusakabe Kimbei - Yokohama Foreign Settlement Pano.jpg

  Kusakabe Kimbei - Yokohama Foreign Settlement Pano

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  Yokohama in the aftermath of air raids during the Second World War

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  Shipyards, wharves, railyards, and warehouses in the dockland area were redeveloped into Minato Mirai 21.

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  Sentinel-2 image of Yokohama (2020)

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  Map of wards of Yokohama

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  Cherry blossoms on the Kisha-michi Promenade

• Yokohama Triennale at Yamashita Pier venue

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  A route map in Yokohama and Tokyo (JR East)

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  Chinatown in Yokohama that is near Tokyo. Goodwill gate(善意門).

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  Nissan Global Headquarters in Nishi-ku

Related pages

• List of the 53 Stations of the Tōkaidō
• The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō
• Yokohama F. Marinos

Other websites

• City of Yokohama website Archived 2011-02-28 at the Wayback Machine
• Kanagawa Prefecture Tourism website
• 16x16px Geographic data related to Yokohama at OpenStreetMap