Yokohama

is a Japanese city in Kanagawa Prefecture on the island of Honshū.

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_.

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

- 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

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

## 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
- Kanagawa Prefecture Tourism website

## Infobox (settlement)

- **official name**: City of Yokohama
- **settlement type**: Cities designated by government ordinance of Japan, Designated city
- **image caption**: Clockwise from top: Minato Mirai 21, Nippon Maru (1930), Nippon Maru Memorial Park, Yokohama Chinatown, Motomachi, Yokohama, Motomachi Shopping Street, Yokohama Marine Tower viewed from Yamashita Park, and Ōsanbashi Pier
- **image flag**: Flag of Yokohama, Japan.svg
- **flag size**: 120px
- **image seal**: 横浜市き章.svg
- **image map1**: Yokohama in Kanagawa Prefecture Ja.svg
- **map caption1**: Map of Kanagawa Prefecture with Yokohama highlighted in purple
- **pushpin map**: Japan#Asia
- **pushpin map caption**:  
- **subdivision type**: Country
- **subdivision type1**: List of regions of Japan, Region
- **subdivision name1**: Kantō region, Kantō
- **subdivision type2**: Prefectures of Japan, Prefecture
- **subdivision name2**: Kanagawa Prefecture
- **leader title**: Mayor
- **leader name**: Takeharu Yamanaka
- **unit pref**: Metric
- **area total km2**: 437.38
- **population total**: 3732616
- **population as of**: October 1, 2016
- **population density km2**: 8534.03
- **timezone1**: Japan Standard Time
- **utc offset1**: +9
- **blank name sec1**: City Symbols
- **blank1 name sec1**: – Tree
- **blank1 info sec1**: Camellia, Castanopsis, Chinquapin, Viburnum odoratissimum, Sangoju
Camellia sasanqua, Sasanqua, Ginkgo biloba, Ginkgo, Zelkova
- **blank2 name sec1**: – Flower
- **blank2 info sec1**: Rose
- **blank1 name sec2**: Address
- **blank1 info sec2**: 6-50-10 Honchō, Naka-ku, Yokohama-shi, Kanagawa-ken
231-0005


## Infobox (chinese)

- **headercolor**: #ff4500
- **pic**: Yokohama (Chinese characters).svg
- **piccap**: "Yokohama" in new-style (_shinjitai_) _kanji_
- **picupright**: 0.425
- **kyujitai**: 橫濱
- **shinjitai**: 横浜
- **katakana**: ヨコハマ
- **hiragana**: よこはま
- **romaji**: Yokohama