Explore Yokohama

Cosmo Clock 21 is a 112.5-metre Ferris wheel in the Yokohama Cosmo World amusement park in the Minato Mirai 21 district. Built for the YES '89 Yokohama Exposition and moved onto a taller base in 1999, it has 60 gondolas for up to eight people each and a large clock at its hub; one turn takes about 15 minutes.

The CupNoodles Museum Yokohama, opened in 2011 in Minato Mirai, tells the story of instant noodles and their inventor Momofuku Ando, who created Chicken Ramen in 1958 and Cup Noodles in 1971. Visitors see a replica of his work shed and a wall of noodle packages, and can design their own cup in a workshop.

The Yokohama Museum of Art opened in 1989 in the Minato Mirai district, in a stone-clad building by Kenzo Tange with a 180-metre colonnaded facade. Its collection of more than 15,000 works includes Cézanne, Picasso, Dalí and Magritte, artists linked to Yokohama and photography, and it reopened after a major renovation.

The Yokohama Red Brick Warehouse is a pair of brick customs warehouses on the harbour, planned by Tsumaki Yorinaka and completed in 1911 and 1913. After their customs use ended in 1989 they were restored and reopened in 2002, Building No. 2 with shops and restaurants and Building No. 1 with exhibition and event halls.

Yokohama Chinatown grew from the settlement of Chinese merchants who arrived after the port opened in 1859. Around 250 Chinese restaurants and shops line its streets, which are entered through ornate gates such as the Zenrinmon, and the Kantei-byō and Mazu Miao temples stand in the district.

Yamashita Park is a waterfront park in Yokohama's Naka Ward, built on rubble from the 1923 Great Kantō earthquake and opened in March 1930. Along its harbour promenade lie the museum ship Hikawa Maru, a sunken rose garden with about 1,900 plants, the Indian Water Tower donated in 1937 and the statue of the girl with red shoes.

Hikawa Maru is an ocean liner built in Yokohama for the NYK Line and put into service in 1930 on the route to Seattle. She served as a hospital ship in the Second World War, crossed the Pacific 254 times and has been moored at Yamashita Park since 1961; visitors walk through the Art Deco passenger rooms, the bridge and the engine room.

Yokohama Marine Tower is a 106-metre lattice tower beside Yamashita Park, opened in 1961 and long used as a lighthouse for the port. Its observation floors on levels 29 and 30, about 100 metres up, look over the harbour and, on clear days, to Mount Fuji. The city restored the tower, which reopened in 2022.

Sankei-en is a Japanese garden in Yokohama's Naka Ward laid out by the silk merchant Hara Tomitarō, known as Sankei, and opened to the public in 1906. Around its ponds and wooded hills stand historic buildings he brought from Kyoto, Kamakura and elsewhere, among them the three-storey pagoda of Tōmyō-ji from 1457; ten are Important Cultural Properties.

The Shin-Yokohama Ramen Museum opened in 1994 in Yokohama's Kōhoku Ward as a museum devoted to ramen. The ground floor covers the dish's history and the noodles, soups, toppings and bowls used across Japan, while the basement floors recreate a Tokyo streetscape of 1958, where branches of regional ramen shops serve their bowls.

Yokohama Hakkeijima Sea Paradise opened in 1993 on Hakkeijima, an artificial island in Yokohama's Kanazawa Ward. It combines the Aqua Resorts aquarium, including the pyramid-shaped Aqua Museum and Dolphin Fantasy, with the rides of Pleasureland, shops, a hotel and a marina. The island has no entrance gate; visitors buy a pass or pay per attraction.