The port opened in 1859, and Yokohama has been absorbing the world ever since — not as spectacle, but as working habit. Along Nihon Odori, the broad boulevard lined with recognized historic buildings, the architecture still carries the posture of a treaty-port city: commercial confidence, a slight lean toward the West. Kannai remains the administrative core, while the area around Yokohama Station pulls the retail gravity. Neither cancels the other. The city holds both without apology.
Three fishing harbors — Tomiokaura, Shiba, Kanazawa — sit quietly within the city limits, easy to overlook against the larger port machinery. Inland, the plateau fields yield cabbage, lettuce, and celery; carnations and sweet peas are grown here too, flowers for a city that has long known how to receive guests. Sankeien, the garden assembled by industrialist Hara Tomitaro in Naka Ward, gathers old structures from across Japan into a landscape that functions less as museum than as slow argument about what beauty can be moved and still remain itself.
The festivals trace the same dual inheritance: the Yokohama Kaikō-sai marks the port's anniversary each year, while the Jazz Promenade and Noge Daidogei — street performance in the old entertainment quarter — keep the city's appetite for noise and improvisation alive. Between events, the ordinary city continues: the market stalls, the neighborhood slopes, the commuters threading between Yokohama's many rail lines, the smell of something grilling near a small station exit at dusk.
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What converges here
29 in this city. 128 within 25 km of the city hall.
- Yokohama Port Museum
- Yokohama Civic Art Gallery
- CupNoodles Museum Yokohama
- Mitsubishi Minatomirai Industrial Museum
- Japanese Overseas Migration Museum
See the nearest 25
- Yokohama Museum of Art
- Japan Newspaper Museum
- Broadcast Library
- 横浜市技能文化会館
- Japan Coast Guard Museum Yokohama
- Yokohama Silk Museum
- Yumesaki Gallery
- Yokohama Anpanman Children's Museum
- Keikyū Museum
- Hara Model Railway Museum
- Yokohama Doll Museum
- Sogō Museum of Art
- Yokohama Cat Museum
- Kanagawa Prefectural Archaeological Artifacts Center
- 山手資料館
- 横浜イングリッシュガーデン
- Yamate Park
- Osaragi Jirō Memorial Museum
- Yokohama Tram Museum
- Sankei-en
- Yokohama Honmoku Gallery
- Shin-Yokohama Raumen Museum
- Tsuzuki Minka-en
- Yokohama Civic Art Gallery Azamino
- Kawasaki Ukiyo-e Gallery
Distances are straight-line from the municipal office. Each website was checked in September 2026. Some locations © OpenStreetMap contributors.
- Sandodai Site
- Otsuka-Saikachido Site
- Former Yokohama Specie Bank Head Office
- Asahina Kiridoshi (Asahina Pass Cutting)
- Shomyo-ji Temple Precinct
- Sankei-en Garden
- Yamate Park
- Former Tomyoji Three-Story Pagoda
- Former Tomyo-ji Temple Main Hall
- Kyu Tenzui-ji Juto Okido
- Gekkaden
- Tenju-in
- Former Tokeiji Temple Butsuden
- Shunsoryo
- Choshukaku
- Rinshunkaku
- Rinshunkaku
- Rinshunkaku
- Seki Family Residence (Katsuta-cho, Kohoku-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa)
- Former Yanohara Family Residence (formerly in Shokawa-mura, Ono-gun, Gifu Prefecture)
- Seki Family Residence (Katsuta-cho, Kohoku-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa)
- Seki Family Residence (Katsuta-cho, Kohoku-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa)
- Former Uchida Family Residence (formerly located in Nampeidaicho, Shibuya, Tokyo)
- Former Yokohama Specie Bank Head Office Main Building
- Former Yokohama Dock Co. No. 1 Dry Dock
- Former Yokohama Dock Co. No. 2 Dry Dock
- Yokohama Port Opening Memorial Hall
- Kanagawa Prefectural Government Building
- Yamashita Park
- Nihon Odori Avenue
- Yokohama Park
- Yokohama
- Yokohama
- Yokohama
- Yokohama
- Hiyoshi
- Totsuka
- Ofuna
- Sakuragicho
- Tsurumi
- Kaminooka
- Nagatsuta
- Shin-Yokohama
- Yokohama
- Azamino
- Nagatsuta
- Higashi-Totsuka
- Kannai
- Aobadai
- Shin-Yokohama
- Kikuna
- Tsunashima
- Minatomirai
- Totsuka
- Tama-Plaza
- Futamatagawa
- Nakayama
- Hiyoshi
- Azamino
- Kikuna
- Shin-Yokohama
- Shin-Yokohama
- Kamoi
- Kamiooka
- Higashi-Kanagawa
- Shin-Sugita
- Kanazawa-Bunko
- Ishikawacho
- Motomachi-Chukagai
- Kanazawa-Hakkei
- Hodogaya
- Konan-dai
- Tsurugamine
- Center-Kita
- Center-Minami
- Mitsukyō
- Kannai
- Sakuragicho
- Shin-Sugita
- Hazawa-Yokohama-Kokudai
- Nakayama
- Kanazawa-Hakkei
- Shin-Yokohama
- Hiyoshi
- Yokohama
- Yokohama
- Hazawa-Yokohama-Kokudai
- Kanazawa-Hakkei
- Nagatsuta
- Kannai
- Okurayama
- Bashamichi
- Shin-Koyasu
- Negishi
- Hakuraku
- Seya
- Ichigao
- Tokaichiba
- Oguchi
- Yokodai
- Hongodai
- Isogo
- Yako
- Kami-Nagaya
- Yamate
- Eda
- Sugita
- Kibogaoka
- Nakamachidai
- Hoshikawa
- Nomidai
- Keikyu-Tsurumi
- Nishiya
- Namanmugi
- Idogaya
- Nihon-odori
- Gumyoji
- Hinodecho
- Kitayamata
- Fujigaoka
- Myorenji
- Keikyu-Higashi-Kanagawa
- Kamihoshikawa
- Tennocho
- Bantobashi
- Maita
- Kogane-cho
- Nippe
- Ryokuen-toshi
- Katakaramachi
- Tsuzuki-Fureai-no-Oka
- Tachiba
- Gumyoji
- Tsurumi-Ichiba
- Keikyu-Tomioka
- Isezakichojamachi
- Kozukue
- Konan-Chuo
- Nakagawa
- Odoriba
- Minami-Ota
- Kanagawa-Shinmachi
- Nakada
- Yoshinochō
- Byobugaura
- Tobe
- Hiyoshi-Honcho
- Takada
- Izumi-Chuo
- Higashi-Hakuraku
- Nishi-Yokohama
- Wadamachi
- Mutsuura
- Yayoidai
- Mitsuzawa-Kamimachi
- Tammachi
- Izumino
- Kita-Shin-Yokohama
- Mitsuzawa-Shimomachi
- Shin-Tsunashima
- Kishinechoen
- Shidai-Igakubu
- Shin-Takashima
- Shimonagaya
- Minami-Makigahara
- Higashi-Yamata
- Kodomonokuni
- Takashimacho
- Torihama
- Tana
- Kawawa-cho
- Hiranumabashi
- Keikyu-Shin-Koyasu
- Koyasu
- Kagestu-Sojiji
- Shimo-Iida
- Sachiura
- Maioka
- Namiki-Chuo
- Hakkejima
- Nanbu-Ichiba
- Sangyo-Shinko-Senta
- Kanagawa
- Namiki-kita
- Fukuura
- Nojima-Koen
- Yumegaoka
- Umi-no-Koen-Shibaguchi
- Umi-no-Koen-Minamiguchi
- Onda
- Center-Kita
- Center-Minami
- Futamatagawa
- Kokudo
- Anzen
- Bentenbashi
- Shin-Shibaura
- Higashi-Kanagawa
- Asano
- Umishibaura
- Nishiya
- Tsurumi
- Tsurumi-Ono
- Tomioka Fishing Port
- Shiba Fishing Port
- Kanazawa Fishing Port