Yokohama
Yokohama listen is the second-largest city in Japan by population and the most populous municipality of Japan. it is the capital city & the almost 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 coast of the United States.
Yokohama was one of the cities to open for trade with the West coming after or as a calculation 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 home of numerous 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 establish 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 include Nissan, JVCKenwood, Keikyu, Koei Tecmo, Sotetsu, and Bank of Yokohama. Famous landmarks in Yokohama include Minato Mirai 21, Nippon Maru Memorial Park, Yokohama Chinatown, Motomachi Shopping Street, Yokohama Marine Tower, Yamashita Park, and Ōsanbashi Pier.