Yokohama - Yokohama

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Yokohama

Yokohama (横 浜) is one japanese city in prefecture Kanagawa in the region Kantō on the main island Honshu.

Map of Yokohama

background

Yokohama was a small fishing village before the 1860s. It was completely destroyed in the great earthquake in 1923 and again by American bombings in World War II in 1943-45. Insofar as “historical” buildings exist, these are replicas.

The south of Tokyo located and with her about Kawasaki The metropolis that has grown together is often neglected because of the capital, although it has a lot to offer in terms of tourism. The rise of Yokohama began with the landing of the "black ships" in 1854, i.e. American gunboat diplomacy. The previously insignificant fishing village quickly became one of the most important port cities in Japan. The main attraction for Japanese is the Chinatown.

Administratively, the city is divided into 18 districts ... ku (区). Interesting tourism can be found mainly in Naka-ku ("middle," 中 区), Nishi-ku ("west," 西区), Minami-ku ("south," 南 区) and m. E Kanagawa-ku (神奈川 区). For visiting the center, the stations Kannai, Basamichi and especially Sakuragichō are important.

You can get an insight into the dark side of Japan, with its inadequate social security, in the Kotobuki-chō district at Ishikawachō train station. This is the traditional “residential area” of the homeless, vegetating as day laborers, and of other predominantly male socially disadvantaged people.[1]

getting there

(All admissions and prices summer 2015.)

By plane

The international Tokyo Narita AirportWebsite of this institutionTokyo Narita Airport in the Wikipedia encyclopediaTokyo Narita Airport in the Wikimedia Commons media directoryTokyo Narita Airport (Q36454) in the Wikidata database(IATA: NRT) is about 1½ hours by train and most travelers who want to go to Yokohama will come through it. The same connections reach travelers arriving in Tokyo Haneda AirportWebsite of this institutionHaneda Airport in the Wikipedia encyclopediaTokyo Haneda Airport in the Wikimedia Commons media directoryTokyo Haneda Airport (Q204853) in the Wikidata database(IATA: HND) land (bus schedule).

By train

Regional train lines around Yokohama.

By train from Tokyo (Central Station) on the JR Yokosuka Line is the 1 Yokohama Central Station (横 浜 駅) reached in forty minutes. It is 30 minutes from Shimbashi Station on the JR Yokosuka Line. With the private Tōkyū Tōyoko line (東 急 東 横線) from Tokyo-Shibuya the journey takes around 40 minutes in the express train. At peak times, the station can be a bit confusing - 760 million passengers pass through every year.

Lots Shinkansen out or in the south keep in 2 Shin-Yokohama (新 横 浜) there are connections to the “blue” line of the subway and the Yokohama line (JR 横 浜 線) those coming from Tokyo to Hachiōji leads.

By boat

Cruise ships dock at the barrier-free

mobility

Network map of the subway (as of 2008).
Urban bus network map (as of 2008).

In addition to several local railroad lines, Yokohama has a subway (横 浜 市 営 地下 鉄). There are two lines, the "blue" combined line 1/3 and the "green" number 4, a ring line that is currently being expanded. Plans for Line 2 have been put on hold. The Yokohama City Transportation Bureau (横 浜 市 交通局, Yokohama-shi Kōtsūkyoku) also operates 156 urban bus routes that are not always easy to use without a knowledge of Japanese.

Most of the attractions are within walking distance from Sakuragichō Station.

The private Sōtetsu (相 鉄) operates three local train lines and some shuttle buses.

Several excursion boats offer Harbor tours at (engl. Overview).

Tourist Attractions

Temples, shrines, churches

  • Iseyama shrine
  • Gumyo-ji Temple. At the Keikyū line station of the same name. It is 400 m to the subway station, also named after the temple.
  • One of the two main temples of Sōtō-Zen is the 1  Sōji-ji (總 持 寺), (1-1, Tsurumi 2-chome, Tsurumi-ku). Not all of the twelve main buildings are open to the public. Founded in 840, today's facility dates from 1911.
  • Shōmyōji, Komyō'in (in the “Bürgerpark” (市民 の 森), accessible via Kanazawa Bunko station on the Keikyū line.).
  • The only completed in 2006 2  Mazu Temple (媽祖廟), 136 Yamashitacho, Naka-ku. in Chinatown is this goddess who often with Kannon confused, dedicated. Their rite has its origins on the Chinese island Meizhou in the province Fujian and is particularly widespread there and on Taiwan, the areas from which most of the Chinese immigrants came.
  • Kreuzkirche. The center of the German-speaking Protestant community that has existed for almost 130 years.
  • One of the few mosques in Japan is the one built in 2006 Yes'me Masjid, (1-31-13 Hayabuchi, Tsuzuki-ku). You don't bother your neighbors with calls to prayer five times a day.[2].

Buildings

Bay Bridge
  • Yokohama Bay Bridge, 880 m long, completed in 1989.
Port area

The old port has been spruced up into a tourist hub over the past two decades. The concept is called Minato Mirai 21, it should be "the port of the future". Much of the concrete popular in Japan was used to create a spacious but ultimately sterile quarter dedicated to mammon. Among other things you can find there:

  • which were built in 1911-13 as state warehouses 1  Red Brick Warehouses (赤 レ ン ガ 倉庫) (6 minutes from Bashamichi or Nihon-odori train stations). Today, various cultural activities take place there, there is a shopping center and small restaurants. They also operate from here Airport buses, to Tokyo-Haneda.Open: approx. 11 am-8pm.
  • the formerly world's largest ferris wheel 3  Cosmo Clock 21. It also serves as a clock thanks to its lighting.Open: 11 am-8pm.
  • In the run-up to an amusement park with rides (roller coaster, etc.).
  • Port Museum, (2-1-1 Minatomirai, Nishi-ku. You can also use the sailing training ship Nippon Maru visit. There is a specialist library in the house.Open: daily except Monday: 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.).
  • The Manyo Club (Basic fee ¥ 2500) is a wellness temple with artificial Onsen whose water is pumped up from the Izu Peninsula.
  • The 296 m high Landmark Tower with a viewpoint on the 69th floor (10.00-21.00, ¥ 1000) you can't miss it. The shopping center takes up the lower five floors Landmark Plaza a.
  • Also the 4 Marine Tower Yamashita Park has a viewing platform and a luxury restaurant at a height of 106 m.

Museums

Pagoda in Sankei-en for the plum blossom.

(The following applies to all museums: closed over the New Year; the regular day of rest falls on one holiday, it is not closed until the next day.)

  • Sankei-en (三 溪 園), (58-1 Honmokusannotani, Naka-ku. An open-air museum in which a number of traditional houses have been saved from rapid modernization. Anyone interested in traditional Japanese culture should plan half a day for the beautiful and spacious park. The Japanese like to visit it at the time of the plum blossom, which marks the end of winter, in March.Open: 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.Price: ¥ 500).

In the port area, in the immediate vicinity of the Landmark Towers:

  • Museum of Art, 3-4 Minatomirai, Nishi-ku (Subway: Minatomirai at the back of the block). Open: daily except Thursday: 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.Price: ¥ 500, special exhibitions extra.
  • Industrial Museum. One of the most important collections of European art of the 19th century, with a part of East Asian art, was founded in 1989 and is Japan's largest art museum with an area of ​​20,000 m² in seven galleries. There is also a specialized first-class library in the house. It was sponsored by Mitsubishi.Open: daily except Tuesdays: 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.Price: ¥ 500.
  • 5  HARA model railway museum, 2nd floor of Yokohama-Mitsui Bldg. (横 浜 三井 ビ ル デ ィ ン グ 2 階), 西区 高 島 1−1−2 (Shintakashima Railway Station). Open: daily except Tuesdays: 11.00 a.m. - 6.00 p.m.Price: ¥ 1000.
  • 6  Kanagawa Prefectural Museum (Subway: Kannai; Railway: Bashamichi). A beautifully old-fashioned cultural history museum. It is in the former headquarters of the Yokohama Specie Bank housed. Signage not in English, but informative leaflet available in that language.Open: daily except Monday: 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.Price: ¥ 300.
  • 7  Kanazawa Bunko (金 沢 文庫), 金 沢 区 金 沢 町 １４２ (Station of the same name on Tokyo's Keikyū Line). It is a former private art collection of classic Japanese, Chinese and Buddhist works. Immediately adjacent is the "Bürgerpark" (市民 の 森) with the Shōmyōji and Komyō'in temples (see above).Open: 9.00 a.m.-4.30 p.m.Price: ¥ 250.
  • 8  Silk Museum (シ ル ク 博物館), 中 区 山下 町 1. Open: 9.30am-4.30pm.Price: ¥ 500.
Pasta museums
Bowl of pork roast slices, so-called Kikuzo-Ramen.
  • The “three minute terrine” is remembered in the 9  Cup Noodle Museum (カ ッ プ ヌ ー ド ル ミ ュ ー ジ ア ム), 2-3-4 Chinko, Naka-ku (Metro: Bashamichi or Minatomirai.). More of an advertising project for the manufacturing company than a “museum.” Not only can the process of making the “instant ramen” invented in 1958 be explained, but you can also put together your own combination of these glutamate bombs. Highly frequented on weekends / public holidays, certain "activities" require advance booking.[3].Price: ¥ 500 (extra activities).
  • 10  Ramen Museum (新 横 浜 ラ ー メ ン 博物館) (5 min. From Shin-Yokohama). is less a museum than two basement floors of a building with nine restaurants in the style of a village from the 1960s, serving different combinations of this “Chinese” type of noodle.Open: 11 am-10pm.Price: ¥ 300.

Streets and squares

The eastern gateway to Chinatown at night.
Chinese restaurants en masse.
Chinatown (横 浜 中華 街, Chūkagai) (In the city center, or Motomachi Chūkagai station.). At the end of the 19th century, the residential area of ​​the Chinese who came to join the European merchants (who had their own quarter), the area is nowadays a curiosity with a number of restaurants and Chinese shops, but still a place where you can find specialties rarely available in Japan such as turtle soup or lizards pickled in schnapps - the latter to strengthen manhood. The two main streets running at right angles to each other are through replicated Chinese-style gates (Pailou, 牌樓) limited.

Parks

Hikawa Maru (2008).
  • Kamon-yama Park
  • Motomachi Park. From here you have a nice view with the foreigners cemetery. Its 4,000 graves can be visited on weekends in summer from 12 p.m. to 4 p.m. A small museum (donations welcome) opens daily except Monday 10 am-5pm.
  • 11  Yamashita Park (山下 公園) (near the port). The city's most famous park, popular with kissing couples and fans on summer nights. In the park there is an "Indian fountain" with a pavilion in the Rajput-Mughal style.
  • The museum ship lies at the pier Hikawa Maru (氷川 丸; built in 1928; ¥ 200).
  • 12  NYK Maritime Museum (日本 郵船 歴 史 博物館), 3-9 Kaigandori, Naka-ku (Bashamichi Station, Exit 6). It is the company history of one of the great Japanese steamship lines NKK Line dedicated.Open: daily except Monday: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.Price: ¥ 400.
  • Nogeyama Zoo (野 毛 山 動物園), 西区 老 松 町 63−10 (Hinode-chō station). As the southern appendix, the Yokohamashi Nogeyama Park at.Open: daily except Monday: 9.30am-4pm.Price: Free entry.
  • It's just outside, a good 7 km from the center Zoorasia (動物園 ズ ー ラ シ ア), (旭 区 上 白 根 町 1175-1. A zoo divided into eight areas.Open: daily except Tuesdays: 9.30am-4.30pm.Price: ¥ 600).

activities

  • 1  Nissan Stadium, 3300 Kozukuechō, Kohoku-ku (Train Stations: Shin-Yokohama or Kozuke on the JR Yokohama Line.). Football stadium with athletics facility. The adjoining indoor swimming pool, which is rare in Japan, is interesting (¥ 500 the first hour, ¥ 200 every 30 min. 9.00-22.00, Sunday and public holidays until 5.00 or 7.30 p.m.) The park adjacent to the north Shin-Yokohama-kōen does not correspond to European ideas of such a facility (Japanese “cannot” lawn).Price: Viewing: ¥ 500.
  • 1  Kirin Yokohama Beer Village, 鶴 見 区 生 麦 1−17−1 (10 minutes from Namamugi on the Keihin-Kyuko Line). Tel.: 81 45-503-8250 (jp.). Visits to the local Kirin-Brewery (キ リ ン ビ ー ル 横 浜 工場).Open: daily except Monday: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.Price: free, but reservation required. Group size at least 10.
  • 13  Hakkeijima Sea Paradise, 金 沢 区 八景 島. On the amusement park island of the same name in the harbor basin, from the Seibu-Group operated. Aquarium and dolphin show.Open: 10.00-18.00 (Pleasure land summer until 9.30pm / 10.30pm).Price: Entry: only Aqua Resort or Pleasure land ¥ 3000 each, whole theme park ¥ 5050; Nov-March about 10% cheaper.
  • in the 14  Disaster Prevention Center. An earthquake simulator can be used north of the main train station.[4] For relaxation, we recommend a visit to the small temple Gangyōji (勧 行 ten) 100 meters away, whose modern, unusual funeral hall is something different. However, the temple is known for its 11-personKannon-Statue.

shop

For the “exotic” of Chinatown. The partially pedestrianized Isezakichō extends on the other side of the Kannai train station to the port Basha-michi-Shopping street that has been paved for a long time and has been historicizing based on the flair of the 19th century. It leads in the direction of the Kanagawa Prefectural Museum (see above).

The larger department stores all have their branches around the main train station. These include Takashimaya, Mitsukoshi, Lumine (ル ミ ネ), behind Sogo (そ ご う 横 浜 店) whose branch was for a long time the largest department store in Japan, with the attached gallery of woodcuts (Ukiyo-e)

  • 15  Sogo Museum of Art, (2-18 Takashima, Nshi-ku. Open: Wed.-Mon. 10.00-19.00.Price: ¥ 500).
  • The camera electronics giant Yodobashi has an offshoot at the west exit. Quite a few shops are located in the underground passages that connect all of this.

kitchen

nightlife

accommodation

(Prices summer 2015)

  • 1  Yokohama Hostel Village (Hayashi Kaikan), 3-11-2 Matsukage-chō, Naka-ku (4 mins walk from JR Ishikawa-cho). Tel.: 81-50-1189-9141. Multiple buildings. Rooms are three tatami (approx. 5 m²) in size; not unusual for Japan and quite sufficient for two people. Accommodation for stays of several weeks is available in the outbuildings (from ¥ 3100 per diem).Open: 6 a.m.-8 p.m. check-in from 3 p.m.Price: from ¥ 2250 p.p.
  • Silk tree, 3-9-4 Matsukage-cho, Naka-ku. Tel.: (045) 719-1541. Open: until 10 p.m.Price: single ¥ 3000, double: ¥ 4500.

luxury

  • Yokohama Royal Park Hotel
  • InterContinental Yokohama Grand
  • Yokohama Bay Hotel Tokyu
  • Yokohama Bay Sheraton Hotel and Towers

security

Police emergency number: 110. In most cases, an interview in the nearest police box (kōban; little English) will be sufficient.

health

Ambulance: 119 (with foreign language skills)

Practical advice

Tourist offices are available at Yokohama, Shin-Yokohama (both 9:00 am-9:00pm) and Sakuragichō (9:00 am-6:00pm) train stations.

As everywhere in Japan, post offices are still numerous with helpful staff, even if often only rudimentary knowledge of English. Currency exchange is also possible in larger post offices. The branch is fairly central

  • Godochosha Nai Post, Dai 2, 5-57 Kitanakadori Naka-ku (On the harbor side from Basamichi train station).

It's also easy to find next to the Mazu-Tempel (see above) post office located in Chinatown.

Until March 31, 2016 there is from NTT East Free Wi-Fi-Maps that give tourists 336 hours of free access at relevant hotspots (map) allow. Prior registration and presentation of the passport is required (Registration offices in Yokohama).

trips

literature

  • Han, Eric C .; Rise of a Japanese Chinatown: Yokohama, 1894-1972; Cambridge 2014 (Harvard East Asian monographs); ISBN 9780674491984
  • Lutterjohann, Martin; Tokyo with Yokohama (CityGuide);62010 (Reise Know-How Verlag); ISBN 9783831718832

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑20 years in the life of one of these is portrayed sensitively by Gill, Tom; Yokohama Street Life: The Precarious Career of a Japanese Day Laborer; 2015 (Lexington Books); ISBN 978-1498511988
  2. ↑The Islam in Japan is practically meaningless.
  3. ↑Video about minute 6-21.
  4. ↑From personal experience it should be noted that the simulation is impressive, but with a real earthquake, in the case of the author "only" the strength "japanese 4 to 5-“Cannot be compared, probably because you know in the back of your mind that it is“ just a game ”after all.
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