5 Places You Should Visit in Yokohama 1

Yokohama port opened in 1859, and it had developed as an international trade port centre. However, nowadays, almost all the Japanese people imagine that “Minato-Mirai 21” is the symbol of Yokohama.

"Minato-Mirai 21” is a symbolic area of Yokohama port with a lot of shopping mall, convention centers, hotels, parks, business buildings. In addition, this beautiful town is easy to get to from Tokyo, only 35 minutes away from Shibuya, 50 minutes from Shinjuku.

Here are 5 places you should visit at first in Yokohama port city. They’re all located in Minato-Mirai area.

Yokohama Landmark Tower is the second tallest building in Japan(296.33m). In this impressive square-pole-shaped tower, there is an observation floor, hotel, office, shopping mall, and Minato-Mirai station on the basement floor.

You can get to the observation deck located on 69th floor(273m) in just about 40 seconds with the fastest elevator in Japan.

From the observation deck, you will be impressed with amazing views of Tokyo tower, skyscrapers in Shinjuku, Tokyo Sky tree, Mt.Fuji, and beautiful landscape below.

This photogenic warehouse was built in 1910s, and used as a bonded warehouse of Japanese government. In 2002, Yokohama City renovated them and reopened as a commercial facility.

There are many shops and restaurants in this warehouse, but the walls or the bricks are preserved as it was.

During whiter time, you can enjoy ice-skating or shopping in christmas market.

This impressive terminal is one of the main wharf for passengers in Japan and home port of many passenger liners.

Many large ships like MS Queen Elizabeth or RMS Queen Mary 2 also stops here.

Osanbashi also has an interesting wave-shaped wood deck. If you are lucky, you will encounter large passenger boat leaving this wharf. Passengers throw colorful paper tapes to people for a send-off and pray for a happy voyage.

This beautiful water-front park is reclaimed with debris of the great “Kanto” earthquake in 1923.

"Hikawa-Maru” is moored to this park. “Hikawa-Maru” was a cargo-passenger boat completed in 1930, during the WW2, this vessel played a dangerous role of cargo mission. After the war, this ship is opened to the public as a museum.

Entry fee:¥300 (adult)

Cosmo World is an amusement park located in the center of Minato-Mirai. This symbolic ferris wheel is called “Cosmo Clock”, has 100m of diameter, the third largest ferris wheel in Japan.

This ferris wheel has a clock in the center, in the night, the illumination system show variety of patterns of lights. This scene is the most famous views of Yokohama.

Entry fee:¥800