Thanks to its open harbour-frontage and generally low-rise skyline, YOKOHAMA feels far more spacious and airy than neighbouring Tokyo. Locals are proud of their city's international heritage, and there's definitely a cosmopolitan flavour to the place, with its scattering of Western-style buildings, Chinese temples and world cuisines, and its sizeable foreign community. Though it can't claim any outstanding sights, Yokohama has enough of interest to justify a day's outing from Tokyo. It might seem strange to come all this way to look at nineteenth-century European-style buildings, … more »
Only 32 kilometers from Tokyo, Yokohama is Japan's second-largest... more »
One of the greatest international sea ports of the Far East, and the... more »
This important port city was one of the first places where European and U.S. traders were allowed... more »
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