Sakuragi cho Minato Mirai  桜木町 みなとみらいAn exciting emerging future city that is constantly evolving. One of Yokohama’s most nostalgic towns, Sakuragi-cho.Minato Mirai District 21 is a new town created where Yokohama Expo was held in 1989. Minato Mirai District 21 is the town of future full of modern high-rise buildings. The most famous ones of [...]

Yokohama (横浜市)is the capital of Kanagawa Prefecture and, with a population of 3.6 million, Japan’s largest city after Tokyo, located in the Kantō region of the main island of Honshū. Yokohama is a major commercial hub of the Greater Tokyo Area. Yokohama was a small fishing village until Commodore Matthew Perry and his United States navy [...]

After the Meiji Restoration of 1868, the port of Yokohama was developed for trading silk, with the main trading partner being Great Britain. Many Western influences first reached Japan in Yokohama, including Japan’s first daily newspaper (1870) and Japan’s first gas-powered street lamps (1872). Japan’s first railway was constructed in the same year to connect [...]

Yokohama is a large port city near Tokyo. It was the first port to be opened to international trade in the 19th century when Japan ended its national seclusion. Many Chinese people came to Yokohama and began to build the China town. Yokohama China Town is the largest China town in Japan and is one [...]

In the late 19th century, the Yokohama city government worked on constructing new harbour facilities, and the first reclamation work was begun in 1899. The work, completed in 1905, was followed by expansion work which ended a year later. Planned by a Japanese architect and a government official, Yorinaka Tsumaki, the current Building No. 2 [...]