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  • When the port of Yokohama opened up to the rest of the world, many Chinese immigrants arrived in Japan and formed settlements, built a Chinese School, Community Center, and various other facilities in what represented the beginning of Chinatown. The Japanese government regulations at the time did not allow foreigners to live outside of the designated areas and thus Chinatown was formed.
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  • Yokohama Bay Bridge crosses Yokohama harbour which is within Tokyo Bay. The suspension bridge spans a total length of 860 meters one of the longest in the world.
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  • Yokohama Bay Bridge crosses Yokohama harbour which is within Tokyo Bay. The suspension bridge spans a total length of 860 meters one of the longest in the world.
    yokohama-bay-bridge-03.jpg
  • Yokohama Marine Tower overlooking Yamashita Park and Yokohama Port is not only the symbol of Yokohama but serves as the tallest lighthouse in the world.
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  • Yokohama Marine Tower was built in 1961 for the 100th anniversary monument of the opening of Yokohama port. Over 25 million people have visited since the tower was built. The tower has served as a symbol of Yokohama for half a century. It remains as a symbol for now and future and has long been the world's tallest lighthouse.
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  • The Nippon Maru with the gracious nickname "Swan of the Pacific Ocean" was built in Kobe in 1930 and originally a training ship for the cadets of the Japanese merchant marine. After 54 years of service, the ship was brought to the Yokohama harbor and opened as a part of the Maritime Museum.
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  • The Nippon Maru with the gracious nickname "Swan of the Pacific Ocean" was built in Kobe in 1930 and originally a training ship for the cadets of the Japanese merchant marine. After 54 years of service, the ship was brought to the Yokohama harbor and opened as a part of the Maritime Museum.
    nippon-maru-04.jpg
  • The Nippon Maru with the gracious nickname "Swan of the Pacific Ocean" was built in Kobe in 1930 and originally a training ship for the cadets of the Japanese merchant marine. After 54 years of service, the ship was brought to the Yokohama harbor and opened as a part of the Maritime Museum.
    nippon-maru-05.jpg
  • Minato Mirai is one of the world’s most successful urban renewal programs.  This was once the site of red brick warehouses, bustling with sailors and longshoremen during the port’s heyday of the silk trade.  Abandoned for decades, Aka Rengu or Red Warehouses are now the venue of restaurants, boutiques, art spaces and cafes.
    aka-renga-yokohama-2.jpg
  • Minato Mirai is one of the world’s most successful urban renewal programs.  This was once the site of red brick warehouses, bustling with sailors and longshoremen during the port’s heyday of the silk trade.  Abandoned for decades, Aka Rengu or Red Warehouses are now the venue of restaurants, boutiques, art spaces and cafes.
    aka-renga-yokohama-3.jpg
  • Minato Mirai or "future harbor" is Yokohama's showpiece along with Cosmos World amusement park.  Take a spin on the Big Wheel, a bayside ferris wheel, or the roller coaster that plunges into a  or the roller coaster that plunges into a large pool.  Despite all these modern attractions, Minato Mirai is one of the world’s most successful urban renewal programs.  This was once the site of red brick warehouses, bustling with sailors and longshoremen during the port’s heyday of the silk trade.
    minato-mirai-2.jpg
  • Minato Mirai or "future harbor" is Yokohama's showpiece along with Cosmos World amusement park.  Take a spin on the Big Wheel, a bayside ferris wheel, or the roller coaster that plunges into a  or the roller coaster that plunges into a large pool.  Despite all these modern attractions, Minato Mirai is one of the world’s most successful urban renewal programs.  This was once the site of red brick warehouses, bustling with sailors and longshoremen during the port’s heyday of the silk trade.
    minato-mirai-1.jpg
  • Landmark Tower - Looking out over the panorama of Yokohama from Japan’s tallest building, you can hardly believe that 150 years ago, Japan’s second largest city and largest port was hardly even a village.
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  • Minato Mirai which means "Harbor Future"  is built on reclaimed land, features Landmark Tower, Japan's tallest skyscraper, the Queen's Square shopping mall and the  Cosmo Clock 21 Ferris wheel,
    cosmo-clock-01.jpg
  • Aka Renga Red Warehouses - Minato Mirai was once the site of red brick warehouses, bustling with rowdy sailors and longshoremen during the port's heyday of the silk trade.  Abandoned for decades, Aka Rengu or Red Warehouses are now the venue of restaurants, boutiques, art spaces and cafes.
    aka-renga-01.jpg
  • Yakatabune Restaurant Boats  - "yakatabune asobi" - meaning something like "roofed-boat fun" is a pleasure dining on a boat.  Usually the menu is a tempura dinner set. The boats were first used exclusively by aristocrats and samurai from the eighth century but nowadays anyone with the yen can enjoy. They have always been closely associated with Tokyo Bay as they still are today.
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  • The Keihin region or keihin chiho refers to the industrial region of Tokyo, Yokohama and Kawasaki though most of it is clustered around Kawasaki along Tokyo Bay.  Keihin is one of the important industrial districts in Japan with huge factories lit up at night which appears as a kind of efficient artwork, almost, depending on your point of view.  In recent years, despite its pollution, it has become something of a tourist attraction in Japan.  In fact the city of Kawasaki is promoting it as such these days, with boat cruises and guided tours of the factories.
    keihin-industrial-3.jpg
  • The Keihin region or keihin chiho refers to the industrial region of Tokyo, Yokohama and Kawasaki though most of it is clustered around Kawasaki along Tokyo Bay.  Keihin is one of the important industrial districts in Japan with huge factories lit up at night which appears as a kind of efficient artwork, almost, depending on your point of view.  In recent years, despite its pollution, it has become something of a tourist attraction in Japan.  In fact the city of Kawasaki is promoting it as such these days, with boat cruises and guided tours of the factories.  Strictly speaking, most of these sites are not abandoned or haikyo explorer territory, but they resembled them enough to be on anyone's urban explorer itinerary.
    keihin-industrial-pipes.jpg
  • The Keihin region or keihin chiho refers to the industrial region of Tokyo, Yokohama and Kawasaki though most of it is clustered around Kawasaki along Tokyo Bay.  Keihin is one of the important industrial districts in Japan with huge factories lit up at night which appears as a kind of efficient artwork, almost, depending on your point of view.  In recent years, despite its pollution, it has become something of a tourist attraction in Japan.  In fact the city of Kawasaki is promoting it as such these days, with boat cruises and guided tours of the factories.
    keihin-industrial-area-46.jpg
  • The Keihin region or keihin chiho refers to the industrial region of Tokyo, Yokohama and Kawasaki though most of it is clustered around Kawasaki along Tokyo Bay.  Keihin is one of the important industrial districts in Japan with huge factories lit up at night which appears as a kind of efficient artwork, almost, depending on your point of view.  In recent years, despite its pollution, it has become something of a tourist attraction in Japan.  In fact the city of Kawasaki is promoting it as such these days, with boat cruises and guided tours of the factories.
    keihin-industrial-area-32.jpg
  • The Keihin region or keihin chiho refers to the industrial region of Tokyo, Yokohama and Kawasaki though most of it is clustered around Kawasaki along Tokyo Bay.  Keihin is one of the important industrial districts in Japan with huge factories lit up at night which appears as a kind of efficient artwork, almost, depending on your point of view.  In recent years, despite its pollution, it has become something of a tourist attraction in Japan.  In fact the city of Kawasaki is promoting it as such these days, with boat cruises and guided tours of the factories.
    keihin-industrial-area-06.jpg
  • The Keihin region or keihin chiho refers to the industrial region of Tokyo, Yokohama and Kawasaki though most of it is clustered around Kawasaki along Tokyo Bay.  Keihin is one of the important industrial districts in Japan with huge factories lit up at night which appears as a kind of efficient artwork, almost, depending on your point of view.  In recent years, despite its pollution, it has become something of a tourist attraction in Japan.  In fact the city of Kawasaki is promoting it as such these days, with boat cruises and guided tours of the factories.
    keihin-industrial-area-05.jpg
  • The Keihin region or keihin chiho refers to the industrial region of Tokyo, Yokohama and Kawasaki though most of it is clustered around Kawasaki along Tokyo Bay.  Keihin is one of the important industrial districts in Japan with huge factories lit up at night which appears as a kind of efficient artwork, almost, depending on your point of view.  In recent years, despite its pollution, it has become something of a tourist attraction in Japan.  In fact the city of Kawasaki is promoting it as such these days, with boat cruises and guided tours of the factories.
    keihin-industrial-area-07.jpg
  • The Keihin region or keihin chiho refers to the industrial region of Tokyo, Yokohama and Kawasaki though most of it is clustered around Kawasaki along Tokyo Bay.  Keihin is one of the important industrial districts in Japan with huge factories lit up at night which appears as a kind of efficient artwork, almost, depending on your point of view.  In recent years, despite its pollution, it has become something of a tourist attraction in Japan.  In fact the city of Kawasaki is promoting it as such these days, with boat cruises and guided tours of the factories.
    keihin-industrial-1.jpg
  • The Keihin region or keihin chiho refers to the industrial region of Tokyo, Yokohama and Kawasaki though most of it is clustered around Kawasaki along Tokyo Bay.  Keihin is one of the important industrial districts in Japan with huge factories lit up at night which appears as a kind of efficient artwork, almost, depending on your point of view.  In recent years, despite its pollution, it has become something of a tourist attraction in Japan.  In fact the city of Kawasaki is promoting it as such these days, with boat cruises and guided tours of the factories.
    keihin-industrial-4.jpg
  • The Keihin region or keihin chiho refers to the industrial region of Tokyo, Yokohama and Kawasaki though most of it is clustered around Kawasaki along Tokyo Bay.  Keihin is one of the important industrial districts in Japan with huge factories lit up at night which appears as a kind of efficient artwork, almost, depending on your point of view.  In recent years, despite its pollution, it has become something of a tourist attraction in Japan.  In fact the city of Kawasaki is promoting it as such these days, with boat cruises and guided tours of the factories.
    keihin-industrial-5.jpg
  • The Keihin region or keihin chiho refers to the industrial region of Tokyo, Yokohama and Kawasaki though most of it is clustered around Kawasaki along Tokyo Bay.  Keihin is one of the important industrial districts in Japan with huge factories lit up at night which appears as a kind of efficient artwork, almost, depending on your point of view.  In recent years, despite its pollution, it has become something of a tourist attraction in Japan.  In fact the city of Kawasaki is promoting it as such these days, with boat cruises and guided tours of the factories.
    keihin-industrial-6.jpg
  • The Keihin region or keihin chiho refers to the industrial region of Tokyo, Yokohama and Kawasaki though most of it is clustered around Kawasaki along Tokyo Bay.  Keihin is one of the important industrial districts in Japan with huge factories lit up at night which appears as a kind of efficient artwork, almost, depending on your point of view.  In recent years, despite its pollution, it has become something of a tourist attraction in Japan.  In fact the city of Kawasaki is promoting it as such these days, with boat cruises and guided tours of the factories.
    keihin-industrial-7.jpg
  • The Keihin region or keihin chiho refers to the industrial region of Tokyo, Yokohama and Kawasaki though most of it is clustered around Kawasaki along Tokyo Bay.  Keihin is one of the important industrial districts in Japan with huge factories lit up at night which appears as a kind of efficient artwork, almost, depending on your point of view.  In recent years, despite its pollution, it has become something of a tourist attraction in Japan.  In fact the city of Kawasaki is promoting it as such these days, with boat cruises and guided tours of the factories.
    keihin-industrial-8.jpg
  • Industrial Air Pollution in Keihin - The Keihin Region or keihin chiho is the industrial region of Tokyo, Yokohama and Kawasaki. Most of it is along Tokyo Bay near Kawasaki.  Keihin is one of the important industrial districts in Japan with huge factories lit up at night which appears artistic, depending on your point of view. Despite the pollution, it has become a tourist attraction in Japan.  The city of Kawasaki is advertising it, rather than hiding it, with boat cruises and guided tours of the factories.
    air-pollution-2.jpg
  • The Keihin region or keihin chiho refers to the industrial region of Tokyo, Yokohama and Kawasaki though most of it is clustered around Kawasaki along Tokyo Bay.  Keihin is one of the important industrial districts in Japan with huge factories lit up at night which appears as a kind of efficient artwork, almost, depending on your point of view.  In recent years, despite its pollution, it has become something of a tourist attraction in Japan.  In fact the city of Kawasaki is promoting it as such these days, with boat cruises and guided tours of the factories.
    keihin-industrial-area-20.jpg
  • The Keihin region or keihin chiho refers to the industrial region of Tokyo, Yokohama and Kawasaki though most of it is clustered around Kawasaki along Tokyo Bay.  Keihin is one of the important industrial districts in Japan with huge factories lit up at night which appears as a kind of efficient artwork, almost, depending on your point of view.  In recent years, despite its pollution, it has become something of a tourist attraction in Japan.  In fact the city of Kawasaki is promoting it as such these days, with boat cruises and guided tours of the factories.
    keihin-industrial-2.jpg
  • The Keihin region or keihin chiho refers to the industrial region of Tokyo, Yokohama and Kawasaki though most of it is clustered around Kawasaki along Tokyo Bay.  Keihin is one of the important industrial districts in Japan with huge factories lit up at night which appears as a kind of efficient artwork, almost, depending on your point of view.  In recent years, despite its pollution, it has become something of a tourist attraction in Japan.  In fact the city of Kawasaki is promoting it as such these days, with boat cruises and guided tours of the factories.
    keihin-industrial-area-39.jpg
  • The Keihin region or keihin chiho refers to the industrial region of Tokyo, Yokohama and Kawasaki though most of it is clustered around Kawasaki along Tokyo Bay.  Keihin is one of the important industrial districts in Japan with huge factories lit up at night which appears as a kind of efficient artwork, almost, depending on your point of view.  In recent years, despite its pollution, it has become something of a tourist attraction in Japan.  In fact the city of Kawasaki is promoting it as such these days, with boat cruises and guided tours of the factories.
    keihin-industrial-area-08.jpg
  • The Keihin region or keihin chiho refers to the industrial region of Tokyo, Yokohama and Kawasaki though most of it is clustered around Kawasaki along Tokyo Bay.  Keihin is one of the important industrial districts in Japan with huge factories lit up at night which appears as a kind of efficient artwork, almost, depending on your point of view.  In recent years, despite its pollution, it has become something of a tourist attraction in Japan.  In fact the city of Kawasaki is promoting it as such these days, with boat cruises and guided tours of the factories.
    air-pollution-1.jpg