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Yokohama is a city that has almost grown together with Tokyo, and is Japan’s second largest city. Yokohama was a small fishing town until the mid-1800s, when the city was opened to foreign trade as one of the first when the isolationist foreign policy, Sakoku (鎖国), was abolished in 1853. After that, Yokohama grew rapidly, and the city gained among second Japan’s first Chinatown, first railway station, power station and gas lamps in the streets for signs of the hasty development.
In the 1900s, large parts of Yokohama were destroyed in two rounds. The first time was in connection with the great earthquake that struck the Kantō area on September 1, 1923. It is estimated that over 30,000 of the city’s population of 434,000 died in the earthquake, and there were nearly 48,000 injured. During World War II, a good 40% of Yokohama was bombed to ruins by American bombings, and the city had to be rebuilt for the second time in a short time.
Today, Yokohoma is a modern city, where you can for example walk around the Minato Mirai 21/Minato Mirai Nijūichi (みなとみらい) district, which is a business district characterized by many new buildings, activities and newer attractions such as Yokohama Landmark Tower/Yokohama Randomāku Tawā (横浜ランドマークタワー), which at 296 meters opened as Japan’s tallest skyscraper in 1993. In the tower there is an observation deck on the 69th floor from which you can enjoy a panoramic view of Yokohama and the surrounding landscape.
In Minato Mirai 21, you can also visit the Yokohama Art Museum/Yokohama Bijutsukan (横浜美術餓), the museum ship Nippon Maru (日本丸) from 1930 and the 112.5 meter high Ferris wheel Cosmo Clock 21. You can also take a ride on the Yokohama Air Cabin cable car (ヨコハマ・エア・キャビン), which heads over the area for a length of 635 meters, and visit the city museum of CupNoodles.
There are several other interesting places in the city such as Yokohama Chinatown/Yokohama chūkagai (横浜中華街), which has a distinctly Chinese feel as the country’s largest Chinatown. You can also go to the harbor area where you can see three of Yokohama’s historical buildings; the old customs building, the prefecture’s office building and the memorial hall for the opening of the port. All the buildings were built in European style and they are called Yokohama’s Three Towers/Yokohama Santō (横浜三塔). It is said that if you can see all three towers at the same time, you get a wish.
Yokohama also offers several lovely parks, such as Harbor View Park/Minato no mieru oka koen (港の电影丘公園) and Yamashita Park (山下公園), both located by the city’s harbor. Off Yamashita Park, the ship NYK Hikawa Maru (日本郵船氷川丸) is permanently anchored as a museum ship. Hikawa Maru entered service in 1930 and became known for plying routes from Japan to North America. In the same area, you can climb the 106-meter-high observation tower Yokohama Marine Tower/Yokohama Marin Tawā (横浜マリンタイー).
Yokohama is known for housing one of Japan’s few Chinese districts, Chinatown, and it is the largest of its kind in the country. Chinatown’s history goes back to the opening of Yokohama’s port in 1859, when many Chinese immigrants came to Japan in connection with the new trade between, among other things, Yokohama’s port and Shanghai.
A Japanese-Chinese trade agreement was concluded in 1871, and this caused trade to increase further. According to Japanese law, foreigners had to live in specially designated areas, and this caused the Chinese to congregate in the neighborhood that eventually developed into Chinatown.
In the 20th century, only the great Kantō earthquake of 1923 and then the fighting during World War II halted Chinatown’s development, but it started up again. In 1955, the district formally became Chinatown, which happened at the same time as the construction of the entrance gates that are still the area’s landmark.
In Chinatown you can experience a Chinese atmosphere with plenty of shops and eateries where you can taste Chinese cuisine. You can also see Chinese Buddhist temples, the district’s entrance gates and various activities and festivals, such as the celebration of the Chinese New Year.
Hiwara Maru is a museum ship that has a past as an ocean-going liner between Japan and North America. The ship was built in Yokohama for the shipping company Nippon Yūsen Kabushiki Kaisha and commissioned on her maiden voyage between Kobe and Seattle on 13 May 1930.
The Hikawa Maru was one of three ships of the Hikawa Maru class, all named after Shinto shrines in Japan. Hikawa is thus a shrine in Saitama in the central part of the country. The ship was called the Queen of the Pacific on the routes between Yokohama, Vancouver and Seattle, which constituted the primary routes.
The Hikawa Maru was noted for a beautiful Art Deco interior, and it sailed in regular service on the US North America until, in October 1941, it became the last of the company’s ships to leave the US until the following Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Before then, many Jewish refugees had been on board after fleeing Europe through the Soviet Union.
During World War II, the Hikawa Maru sailed as a hospital ship, and during the war years the ship was hit by mines three times, but the Hikawa Maru could be repaired each time and was only one of two large Japanese passenger ships that survived the war. After a few years as a cargo ship, the Hikawa Maru sailed again as an America boat between 1953 and 1960. Today, the ship is open as a museum, where you can see the beautiful interior from the days at sea.
Yamashita Park is a lovely park located in central Yokohama along the city’s waterfront. The park was established after the great earthquake that struck the Kantō region in 1923, which had caused great destruction in Yokohama and many other cities. Destroyed buildings were thus used as filling material in the harbour, thereby making room for the park, which opened in 1930.
The park is one of Yokohama’s great breathing holes, where locals go for walks, participate in events, festivals and many other activities that take place here. In Yamashita Park you can also simply enjoy the view of the water and the Pacific liner Hikawa Maru.
You can also enjoy the green areas in Yamashita Park, which include large green lawns and the park’s beautiful rose garden, which is in wonderful bloom during the season. Just south of the rose garden, you can notice the Hotel New Grand, where American General Douglas MacArthur spent his first night after arriving in Japan on August 30, 1945.
Yokohama Red Brick Warehouses is the name of two historic warehouses that stand on Yokohama’s old harbor area. The buildings stand next to each other, which they have done since 1913, when the newest of the buildings was built. It was two years after the first, and both magazines were built on dammed land that had been filled up 1899-1905.
During the Great Kantō Earthquake of 1923, the magazines were damaged, but largely survived due to their reinforcements. After World War II, the buildings were used by the American occupation authorities until they were returned to Japan in 1956. After that, they again functioned as customs warehouses until 1989, when containers had taken over the market.
In the 1990s, the red brick warehouses were renovated and redeveloped, and they reopened in 2002. Building number 1 opened as a place for, among other things, cultural activities, while building number 2 was opened as a shopping center with cafes and restaurants. The buildings are inviting, and it is exciting to walk around the old setting.
Nippon Maru is a former school ship, which today lies in Yokohama’s harbor as a museum ship. Built at the Kawasaki shipyard in Kobe, the Nippon Maru was commissioned in 1930 along with its sister ship the Kaiwo Maru, which is a museum ship in the city of Imizu. The ship was used as a training ship for officers in the Japanese merchant navy.
Nippon Maru is 97 meters long and has a draft of 6.90 meters. The ship is rigged as a four-masted barque with 32 sails covering 2,397 square meters and two 600 horsepower diesel engines are installed for auxiliary functions. As an active training ship, Nippon Maru was manned by a crew of 27 officers, 48 sailors and 120 students.
Yokohama Landmark Tower is one of Yokohama’s modern landmarks. It is an office building that was built in 1990-1993 as Japan’s tallest office building. The skyscraper has a height of 296 meters, and that height was only surpassed with the opening of the Abeno Harukas building in Osaka in 2014.
Landmark Tower’s lower several floors are furnished with offices and shops, while there is a luxury hotel in the upper part of the building. For visitors, floor 69 is of particular interest, as there is an observation deck here, from which there is a magnificent view that, in clear weather, reaches as far as the sacred Mount Fuji.
Yokohama Art Museum is a museum founded in 1989, located in the futuristic Minato Mirai 21 district, where modern architecture defines the cityscape. At the museum you can see works by a number of international artists such as Paul Cézanne, Salvador Dalí, Max Ernst, René Magritte, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Pablo Picasso.
One can also enjoy the museum’s art collection with works by Japanese artists. A focus is on artists with connections to Yokohama such as Imamura Shiko, Kanzan Shimomura and Chizuko Yoshida. You can also see some of Japanese-American Isamu Noguchi’s productions.
Harbor View Park in Yokohama is a recreational area located in the southern part of central Yokohama. The city’s port opened for international trade in 1859, and the British consul’s residence was established on the site of the current park. Between 1862 and 1875, the area was also the base of a British garrison that protected British trade and the British diplomats in the city.
The consul’s house remained British as Crown property until 1969, when the residence and grounds were given to the city of Yokohama, which then laid out the well-situated area as a park. The park is hilly and is a lovely place to go for a walk. Among other things, you can visit the site’s rose garden and enjoy the view of Yokohama’s harbor and Tokyo’s skyscrapers on the horizon from the established vantage point.
You can also see some buildings in Harbor View Park. In the southern part of the park is Yamate building 111/Yamate 111 bankan (山手１１１番館), also called Bluff No. 111. The building is a house in the Spanish style, which was built in 1926 as the residence of American Mr. Refined. One can also visit the Kanagawa Museum of Modern Literature/Kanagawa Kindai Bungakukan (神奈川运动文学館).
Yokohama Marine Tower is a 106-meter high observation tower that was inaugurated in 1961. It is located along the well-visited area along the waterfront and Yamashita Kōen (山下公園) park, and from the tower’s observation deck at a height of almost 100 meters, there is an excellent view of Yokohama. In clear weather you can also see Tokyo’s skyscrapers and Mount Fuji.
Yokohama Marine Tower was built as a monument for Yokohama Port’s 100th anniversary, and it was opened as a lighthouse and called the world’s tallest of its kind. The light in the lighthouse shone until 2006, and since then the tower has devoted itself to the role of a lookout tower, and on the lower floors there is, among other things, a café and shops.
Kanagawa Prefectural Government’s Office is the seat of administration for Kanagawa Prefecture. It is also one of Yokohama’s most distinctive pre-World War II buildings. The Prefectural Office was built in 1928 in a style inspired by Art Deco and also the Imperial style of the day, which often featured Japanese roof structures on the structures.
The administration building is the fourth version of the seat of the prefecture. It replaced the building that was lost in the earthquake that struck the Kantō region in 1923. The building is crowned by one of the three towers for which Yokohama is known, which are said to bring good luck if you can see all at the same time three. The prefecture’s tower is called the King’s Tower, while the nearby customs building is the Queen’s Tower. The third is the Boy’s Tower, which is part of the memorial hall for Yokohama’s opening of the port.
Yokohama Customs Building is one of Yokohama’s beautiful buildings from the first half of the 20th century. The building was constructed in 1934 as the third customs building in the port city. The customs office was established with the opening of Yokohama’s port in 1859, and in 1885 the customs office was established in a wooden building at the present site. However, it was destroyed by the earthquake in the Kantō region in 1923, and therefore the current building was later constructed.
The Customs Building is one of Yokohama’s three famous towers, which bring good luck if you can see them at the same time. Due to the building’s elegant and round lines, it is called the Queen’s Tower, while the prefectural tower is called the King’s Tower and the Memorial Hall for the Opening of Yokohama Port for the Boy’s Tower. All three buildings date from the time before World War II and are landmarks of Yokohama.
Yokohama Port Opening Memorial Hall is a building erected in 1917 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the opening of the Port of Yokohama. The beautiful building was destroyed in 1923 as a result of the Great Kantō Earthquake, but the Memorial Hall was rebuilt in 1927 with the distinctive 36 meter tall bell tower.
The bell tower in particular is important, as the building is counted as one of Yokohama’s so-called three towers, called the King’s Tower, the Queen’s Tower and the Boy’s Tower. The memorial hall’s tower is the Boy’s Tower, while the prefecture’s tower is called the King’s Tower and the city’s customs building the Queen’s Tower. It is said to bring good luck if you can see all three towers from the same place.
In Yokohama, you can visit the historic site where the Treaty of Kanagawa was signed on March 31, 1854. The agreement is also known as the Japanese-American Treaty of Peace and Friendship, but the ruling Tokugawa shogunate signed the agreement under threats, starting with the U.S. diplomatic and military expeditions 1853-1854 to force an opening of Japan through after centuries of relative closure under the so-called sakoku, which was the shogunate’s isolation policy.
With the Treaty of Kanagawa, Japan was forced to open the ports of Hakodate and Shimoda to American ships, and the United States opened a consulate in Japan. Before the signing, the Shogunate leadership had consulted with the Japanese lords, and the United States had sent several warships to force an agreement. The agreement was signed at Kaikō hiroba kōen (開港店堂公園), which today is located in central Yokohama.
Yokohama Cup Noodles Museum is a museum for the world-famous Cup Noodles, and here you can get close to the history of the famous ramen noodles that most people probably know. The museum was established by the food manufacturer Nissin, whose founder, Momofuku Ando, invented this type of noodle in 1958 and who launched the Cup Noodles brand in 1971. Since then, Cup Noodles has gone on to conquer the world.
At the museum you can learn about the history of Cup Noodles, and here, among other things, there is a replica of the shed in which Momofuku Ando invented the noodles. You can also visit My CupNoodles Factory, where you can create your own Cup Noodles by mixing some of the many flavors and toppings available.
Tokyo is one of the world’s largest metropolises, and certainly one of the most fascinating with the mix of centuries-old Japanese traditions and modern Japan’s success, architecture and common use of technology that you will easily notice as a tourist.
There are approximately 30 million people living in the Tokyo-Yokohama area, and the vibrant street life is 24/7 in several places. Shopping and restaurants offering the tasty Japanese cuisine are of course great ways to enjoy Tokyo, as is walking the streets getting impressions.
Kamakura is a historically interesting city located south of the Tokyo-Yokohama metropolitan area. Kamakura was the de facto capital of Japan during the Minamoto dynasty, which ruled from 1192-1333, a time also known as the Kamakura period. The Kamakura shōgunate had its seat in the city, which thereby grew as the center of the country’s feudal military government. Kyoto was the imperial city and formally the capital of Japan, but under the shogunate Kamakura became the largest city in the country for a time.
Kamakura’s shōguns laid out the city as a traditional Japanese imperial city, with a central street called Suzaku Ōji (朱雀大路) leading from south to north, with the palace as the center of a capital city. This type of town plan was established in Kamakura with the 1,800-meter long Wakamiya Ōji (若宮大路) street leading in a straight line north to Tsurugaoka Hachimangū (鶴岡八幡宮), the city’s main Shinto shrine. Tsurugaoka Hachimangū thereby resembles the position of a palace, and the shrine is also one of Kamakura’s attractions.
Fuji-Hakone-Izu National Park is an area of 1,227 square kilometers, located between the big cities of Tokyo and Nagoya. There is great variety in the nature and attractions of the national park, which spans such diverse areas as Mount Fuji/Fujisan (富士山), Fuji’s Five Lakes/Fuji-goko (富士五湖), the city of Hakone/Hakone-machi (箱根町) , Izu Peninsula/Izu-hantō (伊豆半島) and Izu Islands/Izu-shotō (伊豆諸島).
The national park’s areas and different climate and growth zones mean that in the park you can hike in mountains, sail on lakes, visit hot springs, experience beautiful coastlines and much more. Fuji-Hakone-Izu was established as a national park in 1936, making it one of Japan’s first four national parks. The park got its current name in 1950 when the Izu Islands became part of the park area.
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Overview of Yokohama
Yokohama is a city that has almost grown together with Tokyo, and is Japan’s second largest city. Yokohama was a small fishing town until the mid-1800s, when the city was opened to foreign trade as one of the first when the isolationist foreign policy, Sakoku (鎖国), was abolished in 1853. After that, Yokohama grew rapidly, and the city gained among second Japan’s first Chinatown, first railway station, power station and gas lamps in the streets for signs of the hasty development.
In the 1900s, large parts of Yokohama were destroyed in two rounds. The first time was in connection with the great earthquake that struck the Kantō area on September 1, 1923. It is estimated that over 30,000 of the city’s population of 434,000 died in the earthquake, and there were nearly 48,000 injured. During World War II, a good 40% of Yokohama was bombed to ruins by American bombings, and the city had to be rebuilt for the second time in a short time.
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Yokohama Landmark Tower is one of Yokohama’s modern landmarks. It is an office building that was built in 1990-1993 as Japan’s tallest office building. The skyscraper has a height of 296 meters, and that height was only surpassed with the opening of the Abeno Harukas building in Osaka in 2014.
Landmark Tower’s lower several floors are furnished with offices and shops, while there is a luxury hotel in the upper part of the building. For visitors, floor 69 is of particular interest, as there is an observation deck here, from which there is a magnificent view that, in clear weather, reaches as far as the sacred Mount Fuji.
Yokohama Art Museum is a museum founded in 1989, located in the futuristic Minato Mirai 21 district, where modern architecture defines the cityscape. At the museum you can see works by a number of international artists such as Paul Cézanne, Salvador Dalí, Max Ernst, René Magritte, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Pablo Picasso.
One can also enjoy the museum’s art collection with works by Japanese artists. A focus is on artists with connections to Yokohama such as Imamura Shiko, Kanzan Shimomura and Chizuko Yoshida. You can also see some of Japanese-American Isamu Noguchi’s productions.
Harbor View Park in Yokohama is a recreational area located in the southern part of central Yokohama. The city’s port opened for international trade in 1859, and the British consul’s residence was established on the site of the current park. Between 1862 and 1875, the area was also the base of a British garrison that protected British trade and the British diplomats in the city.
The consul’s house remained British as Crown property until 1969, when the residence and grounds were given to the city of Yokohama, which then laid out the well-situated area as a park. The park is hilly and is a lovely place to go for a walk. Among other things, you can visit the site’s rose garden and enjoy the view of Yokohama’s harbor and Tokyo’s skyscrapers on the horizon from the established vantage point.
You can also see some buildings in Harbor View Park. In the southern part of the park is Yamate building 111/Yamate 111 bankan (山手１１１番館), also called Bluff No. 111. The building is a house in the Spanish style, which was built in 1926 as the residence of American Mr. Refined. One can also visit the Kanagawa Museum of Modern Literature/Kanagawa Kindai Bungakukan (神奈川运动文学館).
Yokohama Marine Tower is a 106-meter high observation tower that was inaugurated in 1961. It is located along the well-visited area along the waterfront and Yamashita Kōen (山下公園) park, and from the tower’s observation deck at a height of almost 100 meters, there is an excellent view of Yokohama. In clear weather you can also see Tokyo’s skyscrapers and Mount Fuji.
Yokohama Marine Tower was built as a monument for Yokohama Port’s 100th anniversary, and it was opened as a lighthouse and called the world’s tallest of its kind. The light in the lighthouse shone until 2006, and since then the tower has devoted itself to the role of a lookout tower, and on the lower floors there is, among other things, a café and shops.
Kanagawa Prefectural Government’s Office is the seat of administration for Kanagawa Prefecture. It is also one of Yokohama’s most distinctive pre-World War II buildings. The Prefectural Office was built in 1928 in a style inspired by Art Deco and also the Imperial style of the day, which often featured Japanese roof structures on the structures.
The administration building is the fourth version of the seat of the prefecture. It replaced the building that was lost in the earthquake that struck the Kantō region in 1923. The building is crowned by one of the three towers for which Yokohama is known, which are said to bring good luck if you can see all at the same time three. The prefecture’s tower is called the King’s Tower, while the nearby customs building is the Queen’s Tower. The third is the Boy’s Tower, which is part of the memorial hall for Yokohama’s opening of the port.
Yokohama Customs Building is one of Yokohama’s beautiful buildings from the first half of the 20th century. The building was constructed in 1934 as the third customs building in the port city. The customs office was established with the opening of Yokohama’s port in 1859, and in 1885 the customs office was established in a wooden building at the present site. However, it was destroyed by the earthquake in the Kantō region in 1923, and therefore the current building was later constructed.
The Customs Building is one of Yokohama’s three famous towers, which bring good luck if you can see them at the same time. Due to the building’s elegant and round lines, it is called the Queen’s Tower, while the prefectural tower is called the King’s Tower and the Memorial Hall for the Opening of Yokohama Port for the Boy’s Tower. All three buildings date from the time before World War II and are landmarks of Yokohama.
Yokohama Port Opening Memorial Hall is a building erected in 1917 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the opening of the Port of Yokohama. The beautiful building was destroyed in 1923 as a result of the Great Kantō Earthquake, but the Memorial Hall was rebuilt in 1927 with the distinctive 36 meter tall bell tower.
The bell tower in particular is important, as the building is counted as one of Yokohama’s so-called three towers, called the King’s Tower, the Queen’s Tower and the Boy’s Tower. The memorial hall’s tower is the Boy’s Tower, while the prefecture’s tower is called the King’s Tower and the city’s customs building the Queen’s Tower. It is said to bring good luck if you can see all three towers from the same place.
In Yokohama, you can visit the historic site where the Treaty of Kanagawa was signed on March 31, 1854. The agreement is also known as the Japanese-American Treaty of Peace and Friendship, but the ruling Tokugawa shogunate signed the agreement under threats, starting with the U.S. diplomatic and military expeditions 1853-1854 to force an opening of Japan through after centuries of relative closure under the so-called sakoku, which was the shogunate’s isolation policy.
With the Treaty of Kanagawa, Japan was forced to open the ports of Hakodate and Shimoda to American ships, and the United States opened a consulate in Japan. Before the signing, the Shogunate leadership had consulted with the Japanese lords, and the United States had sent several warships to force an agreement. The agreement was signed at Kaikō hiroba kōen (開港店堂公園), which today is located in central Yokohama.
Yokohama Cup Noodles Museum is a museum for the world-famous Cup Noodles, and here you can get close to the history of the famous ramen noodles that most people probably know. The museum was established by the food manufacturer Nissin, whose founder, Momofuku Ando, invented this type of noodle in 1958 and who launched the Cup Noodles brand in 1971. Since then, Cup Noodles has gone on to conquer the world.
At the museum you can learn about the history of Cup Noodles, and here, among other things, there is a replica of the shed in which Momofuku Ando invented the noodles. You can also visit My CupNoodles Factory, where you can create your own Cup Noodles by mixing some of the many flavors and toppings available.
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