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Yokohama City

A Yayoi village and graves share a park.

Otsuka-Saikachido Site

Photo by Saigen Jiro (CC0)

01 ／ Legend

A memorial tower for the Urashima Tarolegend stands in a Kanagawa Ward temple.

The Kanagawa Ward history site tells how Taro, son of Urashima Taifu of Sagami Province, saved a turtle and, on returning from the Dragon Palace, found 300 years had passed. The hermitage he built beside his parents' graves became a temple popularly called Urashima-dera, and at Renpo-ji in Urashima-oka there are said to be a memorial tower for father and son and a turtle-mound monument.

Renpo-ji: memorial tower for Urashima Taifu and Taro, turtle-mound monument (ward)
Urashima Taro legend materials: city-registered folk cultural property
A well where Taro is said to have washed his feet is in the ward (ward)

02 ／ Archaeological site

Pit dwellings of the Jomon, Yayoi and Kofun erashave been rebuilt on a single hill.

Santonodai Site, on a hill in Okamura, Isogo Ward, is a National Historic Site. The city says that, because the spot was ideal for living, villages were confirmed to have been kept up across the ages. Pit dwellings of the Jomon, Yayoi and Kofun periods have each been reconstructed.

Apr 2, 1966: designated a National Historic Site
On a hill 55.1 m above sea level (ward)
The whole hilltop is about 10,000 sq m (ward)

03 ／ Highway

In the upper floor of an inn's storehouse,42 signboards of pilgrim groups.

The Eda-juku Maneki Kanban are a city-designated tangible folk cultural property. Kept together on the upper floor of an old storehouse of an inn, they number 30 for Oyama groups and 12 for Fuji, Aizen and other groups. The city writes that members from Edo hung them on the entrance wall and elsewhere each time they stayed.

42 in all (30 Oyama-ko; 12 Fuji-ko, Aizen-ko and others)
Edo period
City-designated (tangible folk cultural property)

Yokohama City from the sky

Now and 1974–78. Tap a photo to zoom in.

Now1974–78

Wide (about 6 km across)

Close (about 1.5 km across)

Now (shot June–August 2019)Shot 1974–78

Source: Geospatial Information Authority of Japan (GSI) GSI Tiles（全国最新写真（シームレス）／国土画像情報（第一期：1974〜1978年撮影））

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Living here

23 minutes from Tokyo, 124 from Shin-Osaka.

about 3,780,000 people
30 min to a city centre
Shinkansen stops here

By the JR East timetable (October 2026), the limited express Odoriko takes as little as 23 minutes from Tokyo to Yokohama Station and 15 from Shinagawa; from Shinjuku, the Shonan-Shinjuku Line special rapid takes 29. On the Tokaido Shinkansen, the Nozomi takes 76 minutes from Nagoya to Shin-Yokohama Station and 124 from Shin-Osaka. For City Hall, the city's guide says it connects directly to Bashamichi Station on the Minatomirai Line.

People living here: 3,777,491people
Area: 438.23km²
Households: 1,753,081households
Rent (average for rentals): 75,381yen
Healthcare: 130 hospitals ／ 3201 clinics

Area and habitable land at the same scalee-Stat B1101 / B1103

Children waiting for childcare: —665 nurseries and similar
Home purchase subsidy: —
Average annual temperature: —

These 3 items are waiting on a nationwide data source. We do not fill them with estimates.

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Where you can go from here.

Yokohama City in Japan35.450°N 139.634°E

to TokyoLtd. exp. Odoriko23min
to ShinagawaLtd. exp. Odoriko15min
to ShinjukuJR Shonan-Shinjuku Line special rapid29min
to NagoyaShinkansen Nozomi76min
to Shin-OsakaShinkansen Nozomi124min

Travel times follow JR東日本の駅の時刻表（東京・品川・新宿の各駅。2026年10月ダイヤ＝URLの2610）と、JR東海の各駅の時刻表（新横浜駅東海道・山陽新幹線下り。2026-10-21〈水〉と 2026-10-24〈土〉・10-25〈日〉の表）。各列車のページの『着』『発』の時刻から分数を数えた (checked 2026-10-21). They vary by time of day.

Shape

Borders 7 municipalities across 1 prefectures.

Territory of Yokohama City

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (Administrative Area Data), MLIT. Processed by Machigatari.Lakes: National Land Numerical Information (Lake Data), MLIT. Processed by Machigatari. Prepared with the approval of the Director-General of the Geospatial Information Authority of Japan, using its Digital Map 25000 (Spatial Data Framework) and Digital Map 25000 (Place Names and Public Facilities). (承認番号平27情使、第585号)

North to south

31.1km

Kanagawa Prefecture: Kawasaki City, Kamakura City, Yamato City, Fujisawa City, Zushi City, Yokosuka City
Tokyo: Machida City

Yokohama City isthis kind of town.

01Otsuka-Saikachido Site in Tsuzuki Ward is a National Historic Site. The city writes that it consists of a moated settlement of the middle Yayoi period (Otsuka) and its cemetery of square-ditched burial mounds (Saikachido), and that Otsuka is the ruins of a village where about 100 people are said to have lived some 2,000 years ago
02Kanagawa Ward introduces a memorial tower for Urashima Taifu and Taro and a turtle-mound monument at Renpo-ji. Santonodai Site in Isogo Ward, the ruins of a Jomon, Yayoi and Kofun village, is a National Historic Site. The Eda-juku Maneki Kanban in Aoba Ward are city-designated, 42 signboards mostly of Oyama groups
03Yokohama is the capital of Kanagawa Prefecture, a city of 18 wards, here treated as a single town. In Honmoku, Naka Ward, Ouma-nagashi, in which horses woven of thatch are set adrift at sea, is a prefecturally designated intangible folk cultural property. City Hall connects directly to Bashamichi Station on the Minatomirai Line

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Source: Wikidata (P2002, P2003, P2013, P2397)

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