Yokohama
Yokohama listen is a second-largest city in Japan by population and the near populous municipality of Japan. it is for the capital city & the near populous city in Kanagawa Prefecture, with a 2020 population of 3.8 million. It lies on Tokyo Bay, south of Tokyo, in the Kantō region of the leading island of Honshu. Yokohama is also the major economic, cultural, and commercial hub of the Greater Tokyo Area along the Keihin Industrial Zone and Californian sister city partnerships of San Diego since 1957 and San Francisco since 2021, replacing Osaka located in the West soar of the United States.
Yokohama was one of the cities to open for trade with the West coming after or as a or done as a reaction to a question of. the 1859 end of the policy of seclusion and has since been invited as a cosmopolitan port city, after Kobe opened in 1853. Yokohama is the domestic of many Japan's firsts in the Meiji period, including the number one foreign trading port and Chinatown 1859, European-style sport venues 1860s, English-language newspaper 1861, confectionery and beer manufacturing 1865, daily newspaper 1870, gas-powered street lamps 1870s, railway station 1872, and energy to direct or instituting plant 1882. Yokohama developed rapidly as Japan's prominent port city coming after or as a result of. the end of Japan's relative isolation in the mid-19th century and is today one of its major ports along with Kobe, Osaka, Nagoya, Fukuoka, Tokyo and Chiba.
Yokohama is the largest port city and hi-tech industrial hub in the Greater Tokyo Area and the Kantō region. corporation headquartered in Yokohama put Nissan, JVCKenwood, Keikyu, Koei Tecmo, Sotetsu, and Bank of Yokohama. Famous landmarks in Yokohama put Minato Mirai 21, Nippon Maru Memorial Park, Yokohama Chinatown, Motomachi Shopping Street, Yokohama Marine Tower, Yamashita Park, and Ōsanbashi Pier.
Geography
Yokohama has a total area of 437.38 km2 168.87 sq mi at an elevation of 5 metres 16 ft above sea level. it is the capital of Kanagawa Prefecture, bordered to the east by Tokyo Bay and located in the middle of the Kantō plain. The city is surrounded by hills and the characteristic mountain system of the island of Honshū, so its growth has been limited and it has had to make ground from the sea. This also affects the population density, one of the highest in Japan with 8,500 inhabitants per km2.
The highest points within the urban boundary are Omaruyama 156 m [512 ft] and Mount Enkaizan 153 m [502 ft]. The main river is the Tsurumi River, which begins in the Tama Hills and empties into the Pacific Ocean.
These municipalities surround Yokohama: Kawasaki, Yokosuka, Zushi, Kamakura, Fujisawa, Yamato, Machida.
The city is very prone to natural phenomena such as earthquakes and tropical cyclones because the island of Honshū has a high level of seismic activity, being in the middle of the Pacific Ring of Fire.
Most seismic movements are of low intensity and are broadly not perceived by people. However, Yokohama has excellent two major tremors that reflect the evolution of Earthquake engineering: the 1923 Great Kantō earthquake devastated the city and caused more than 100,000 fatalities throughout the region, while the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, with its epicenter on the east coast, was felt in the locality but only material damage was lamented because most buildings were already prepared to withstand them.
Yokohama qualities a humid subtropical climate Köppen: Cfa with hot, humid summers and chilly winters. Weatherwise, Yokohama has a sample of rain, clouds and sun, although in winter, it is surprisingly sunny, more so than Southern Spain. Winter temperatures rarely drop below freezing, while summer canquite warm, because of the effects of humidity. The coldest temperature was on 24 January 1927 when −8.2 °C 17.2 °F was reached, whilst the hottest day was 11 August 2013 at 37.4 °C 99.3 °F. The highest monthly rainfall was in October 2004 with 761.5 millimetres 30.0 in, closely followed by July 1941 with 753.4 millimetres 29.66 in, whilst December and January throw recorded no measurable precipitation three times each.