Yokohama, Kanagawa

:''For the town of Yokohama in Aomori Prefecture, see Yokohama, Aomori.'' {| align="right" border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 style="border: solid 2px #000000; margin-left: 16px"| | colspan=3 align="center" style="border-style: none none solid; background: #a0ffa0"|Yokohama (横浜) |- | align="center" style="border-style: none none solid; background: #f0f0f0"|Country | colspan=2 align="right" style="border-style: none none solid solid"|Japan |- | align="center" style="border-style: none none solid; background: #f0f0f0"|Region | colspan=2 align="right" style="border-style: none none solid solid"|Kanto region |- | align="center" style="border-style: none none solid; background: #f0f0f0"|Prefecture | colspan=2 align="right" style="border-style: none none solid solid"|Kanagawa |- | align="center" style="border-style: none none solid; background: #f0f0f0"|Area | colspan=2 align="right" style="border-style: none none solid solid"|437.35km� |- | align="center" style="border-style: none none solid; background: #f0f0f0"|Population | colspan=2 align="right" style="border-style: none none solid solid"|3,573,588
as of June, 2005 |- | align="center" style="border-style: none none solid; background: #f0f0f0"|Density | colspan=2 align="right" style="border-style: none none solid solid"|8171 |- | align="center" style="border-style: none none solid; background: #f0f0f0"|Mayor | colspan=2 align="right" style="border-style: none none solid solid"|Hiroshi Nakada |- | align="center" style="border-style: none none solid; background: #f0f0f0"|City symbols | colspan=1 align="right" style="border-style: none none none solid"|Tree | colspan=1 align="right" style="border-style: none none none none"|Camellia,Chinquapin,Sangoju
Sasanqua,Ginkgo,Zelkova |- | colspan=1 align="right" style="border-style: none none none none"| | colspan=1 align="right" style="border-style: none none none none"|Flower | colspan=1 align="right" style="border-style: none none none none"|Rose |- | colspan=3 align="center" style="border-style: none none solid; font-size: smaller"| |- | colspan=3 align="center" style="border-style: solid none solid; background: #f0f0f0"|Yokohama City Hall |- | align="center" style="border-style: none none solid; background: #f0f0f0"|Address | style="border-style: none none none solid"|〒231-0017 | align="right" valign="bottom" style="border-style: none; padding-bottom: 0px"| |- | colspan=3 align="right" valign="top" style="border-style: none none solid; padding-top: 0px"| Yokohama-shi, Naka-ku, Minato-cho 1-1 |- | align="center" style="border-style: none none solid; background: #f0f0f0"|Phone | colspan=2 align="right" style="border-style: none none solid solid"|045-671-2121 |- class="noprint" | align="center" style="border-style: none none solid; background: #f0f0f0"|External link | colspan=2 align="right" style="border-style: none none solid solid"|[http://www.city.yokohama.jp/en/ Yokohama City] |- | align="center" style="border-style: solid none solid; background: #f0f0f0"|Latitude &
Longitude | colspan=2 align="right" style="border-style: solid none none solid"|35°26' N
139°38' E |- | colspan=3 align="center" style="border: none; font-size: smaller"| |- | align="center" style="border-style: solid none none; border-width:2px 0px 0px 0px; background: #f0f0f0"|Notes | colspan=2 style="border-style: solid none none solid; border-width:2px 0px 0px 1px; font-size: smaller"| |} [[Image:Minatomirai21.jpg|thumb|250px|Japan's tallest building, the Landmark Tower, is in the Minato Mirai 21 district of Yokohama.]] [[Image:Yokohama_Koreanwar.jpg|right|thumb|250px|During the Korean War, the United States Navy used Yokohama's port as a transshipment base. This ship departed Yokohama in 1951, carrying war dead home to the U.S.]] Yokohama (Japanese language: 横浜市; -shi) is the capital city of Kanagawa Prefecture in Japan. It is Japan's largest incorporated cities of Japan and largest seaports of Japan, and a commercial hub of the Greater Tokyo Area. == History == Yokohama was a small fishing village up to the end of the Edo period, a time when Japan conducted very little trade with foreign countries. In 1854, Commodore Matthew Perry (naval officer) arrived just south of Yokohama with a fleet of United States warships, and forced Japan to open several ports for commerce. Yokohama was designated as a foreign port instead of Kanagawa, which the Tokugawa shogunate feared was too close to the Tokaido, a strategic highway connecting Edo to Nagoya, Aichi, Kyoto, Kyoto, and Osaka, Osaka. The Port of Yokohama was opened in 1859 and quickly became the base of most foreign trade in Japan. Foreigners occupied a district of the city called 'Kannai' ("inside the barrier"), which was surrounded by a moat. After the Meiji Restoration of 1868, the port was developed for trading silk. Japan's first railway was constructed in 1872 to connect Yokohama to Tokyo, allowing ''zaibatsu'' firms to use the port for importing raw materials bound for factories in the growing Keihin Industrial Area. The growth of Japanese industry brought affluence to Yokohama, and many wealthy trading families constructed sprawling residences there. Until more commerce was carried out directly in Tokyo, Yokohama was known as the most international city in Japan. Much of Yokohama was destroyed in the Great Kanto Earthquake, and the city was firebombed by U.S. aircraft during World War II. During the Occupied Japan, Yokohama was a major transshipment base for American supplies and personnel, especially during the Korean War. After the occupation, most local U.S. naval activity moved from Yokohama to an American base in neighboring Yokosuka, Kanagawa. The city was officially incorporated on April 1, 1889, and designated by cities designated by government ordinance on September 1, 1956. == Geography == Yokohama is located on a peninsula facing the western side of Tokyo Bay, 30 kilometers (18 miles) from Tokyo, to which it is connected by a half-dozen railway lines as well as expressways and surface streets. Although the city is largely a bedroom community for people commuting to Tokyo, it also has a strong local economic base, especially in the shipping, biotechnology, and semiconductor industries. Nissan will move its headquarters to Yokohama from Chuo, Tokyo, Tokyo, by 2010. Sightseeing spots in Yokohama include the port area (Yamashita Park, Minato Mirai 21, and Chinatown), the Yamate area (foreigners' cemetery and harbour view park), and Sankeien, a Japanese garden in the Japanese style. The Isezakicho and Noge areas offer many colourful shops and bars and, with their restaurants and stores catering to residents from China, Thailand, South Korea, and other countries, have an increasingly international flavour. The ramen museum and the curry museum are other interesting spots recently opened in Yokohama. Yokohama is the home of the Yokohama BayStars, a Central League baseball team, and the Yokohama F Marinos, a J. League soccer team. The final game of the Football World Cup 2002 was played in International Stadium Yokohama. == Wards == Yokohama has 18 Wards of Japan (''ku''): * Aoba-ku, Yokohama (青葉区) * Asahi-ku, Yokohama (旭区) * Hodogaya-ku, Yokohama (保土ヶ谷区) * Isogo-ku, Yokohama (磯子区) * Izumi-ku, Yokohama (泉区) * Kanagawa-ku, Yokohama (神奈川区) * Kanazawa-ku, Yokohama (金沢区) * Kohoku-ku, Yokohama (港北区) * Konan-ku, Yokohama (港南区) * Midori-ku, Yokohama (緑区) * Minami-ku, Yokohama (南区) * Naka-ku, Yokohama (中区) * Nishi-ku, Yokohama (西区) * Sakae-ku, Yokohama (栄区) * Seya-ku, Yokohama (瀬谷区) * Totsuka-ku, Yokohama (戸塚区) * Tsurumi-ku, Yokohama (鶴見区) * Tsuzuki-ku, Yokohama (都筑区) == Demographics == As of October 1, 2004, the city has an estimated population of 3,555,473 and the population density of 8,174 persons per square kilometer. The total area is 434.98 km². == Yokohama in fiction == Yokohama during the 1860s was the setting of James Clavell's final novel, ''Gai-Jin (book)''. In Shadow Hearts 2, one of the towns/cities you visit is circa 1915 Yokohama. Yu Miri's novel ''Gold Rush'' (1998; English translation 2002), is set in and around the Kogane-cho area of central Yokohama. The manga series Yokohama Kaidashi Kiko written and drawn by Hitoshi Ashinano (芦奈野ひとし) features several scenes set in a post-ecodisaster Yokohama. ==See also== *Foreign cemeteries in Japan == External links == * [http://www.city.yokohama.jp/en/ Official website] in English * [http://www.city.yokohama.jp/me/naka/e/ Naka Ward Office] in English * [http://wikitravel.org/en/article/Yokohama Wikitravel: Yokohama] Cities in Kanagawa Prefecture Coastal cities {| style="margin: 0 2em 0 2em; background-color:#f7f8ff; padding:5px; border:1px solid #8888aa; clear: both;" | style="background:#ccccff; white-space: nowrap;" width="1%" | [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Template:Japan&action=edit edit] ! style="background:#ccccff" align="center" | Prefectures of Japan | width="1%" | |- | align="center" style="font-size: 90%;" colspan="3" | Aichi Prefecture | Akita Prefecture | Aomori Prefecture | Chiba Prefecture | Ehime Prefecture | Fukui Prefecture | Fukuoka Prefecture | Fukushima Prefecture | Gifu Prefecture | Gunma Prefecture | Hiroshima Prefecture | Hokkaido Prefecture | Hyogo Prefecture | Ibaraki Prefecture | Ishikawa Prefecture | Iwate Prefecture | Kagawa Prefecture | Kagoshima Prefecture | Kanagawa Prefecture | Kochi Prefecture | Kumamoto Prefecture | Kyoto Prefecture | Mie Prefecture | Miyagi Prefecture | Miyazaki Prefecture | Nagano Prefecture | Nagasaki Prefecture | Nara Prefecture | Niigata Prefecture | Oita Prefecture | Okayama Prefecture | Okinawa Prefecture | Osaka Prefecture | Saga Prefecture | Saitama Prefecture | Shiga Prefecture | Shimane Prefecture | Shizuoka Prefecture | Tochigi Prefecture | Tokushima Prefecture | Tokyo | Tottori Prefecture | Toyama Prefecture | Wakayama Prefecture | Yamagata Prefecture | Yamaguchi Prefecture | Yamanashi Prefecture |- | align="center" colspan="3" | List of regions in Japan |- | align="center" style="font-size: 90%;" colspan="3" | Hokkaido | Tohoku region | Kanto region | Chubu region (Hokuriku region - Koshinetsu region - Tokai region) | Kansai | Chugoku region | Shikoku | Kyushu |- | align="center" colspan="3" | List of cities in Japan |- | align="center" style="font-size:90%;" colspan="3" | 23 special wards | Chiba, Chiba | Fukuoka, Fukuoka | Hiroshima | Kawasaki, Kanagawa | Kitakyushu, Fukuoka | Kobe, Hyogo | Kyoto | Nagoya, Aichi | Osaka, Osaka | Saitama, Saitama | Sapporo, Hokkaido | Sendai, Miyagi | Yokohama, Kanagawa |} simple:Yokohama

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