- Yellow Productions presents a travel guide
for visiting the City of Yokohama in Japan.
Just a 25-minute train ride from Tokyo Station,
this city, part of the Greater Tokyo Area,
is technically Japan's largest city itself
with 3.7 million people
living in the city limits of Yokohama.
In this video, I'll cover the major highlights
for visiting Yokohama.
We'll start by visiting the Yokohama Station area.
We'll take a ride on the Sea Bass over to Yamashita Park.
We'll stroll over to Chinatown
and we'll conclude with a visit
to the Minato Mirai district,
famous for its high-rise buildings
and really neat Ferris wheel.
Your first stop in Yokohama
after arriving at Yokohama Station
should be to stop at the Tourist Information,
and you can pick up maps and all sorts of languages.
This one's an English language map
and it's really good too.
From Yokohama Station, head out the west exit
to the Yokohama Station shopping district.
There's a branch of Yodobashi Camera,
Japan's largest electronics store,
and there's a branch of Tokyo Hand,
which I think is Japan's funnest store.
There's also Takashimaya,
one of Japan's biggest and nicest department stores.
You can easily spend a ton of time
shopping to your heart's content
on this side of the station, the west side.
After you've seen everything on that side of the station,
head over to the other side of the station, the east exit
over on this side, and then you can take the Sea Bass.
The Sea Bass is actually a sea bus,
it's kind of a play on word,
that let you see the sites of Yokohama from the sea.
It's a neat walk to get to the Sea Bass Terminal.
The final part of it takes you over this bridge
that has a moving pedestrian walkway.
You'll end up in the Bay Quarter Yokohama building,
which is where the Sea Bass bus leaves from.
The Sea Bass bus docks
on the water level of the complex.
And ticket, you can purchase just up here
in the ticket office to the left.
You can get tickets to Minato Mirai or to Yamashita Park.
There is two routes.
One that will take you indirectly to Yamashita Park
and the other one, it takes you directly there.
The direct fair is 700 yen.
The Sea Bass has indoor and outdoor seats.
Most of them are indoors, and for some of the best view,
sit on the right side of the Sea Bass because from there,
you'll be able to see the harbor front of Yokohama.
The final stop on the Sea Bass, if you take it all the way,
is the Yamashita Park.
This park right here.
It's got a neat boardwalk along the harbor
that you can stroll on,
and it's a popular place for special events.
Today, there's a international food festival.
You can get some food from Belgium
and other exotic countries.
After strolling around Yamashita Park,
head over to one of Yokohama's biggest attractions,
biggest, certainly by the number of people here,
this is Yokohama Chinatown.
It's the largest Chinatown in Asia
and the second largest Chinatown in the world.
There's a cool pedestrian street here
that has over 600 shops within a 10-block area.
A really neat place to check out.
A district in Yokohama that you have to visit at night
is the Minato Mirai district.
One of the cool things here is the gigantic Ferris wheel.
They say it has the world's largest clock
'cause at certain times of the day,
it is from the clock in the middle,
the hands of the clock are on the Ferris wheel.
Check it out to see the cool nighttime show.
Huh, ride it and check out the view from there.
Minato Mirai is also a home to a number of shopping centers
in the Landmark Tower and Queen's Plaza.
The Landmark Tower is also Japan's second tallest building
and has a neat observatory on top.
Right out between the Landmark Tower
and the Ferris wheel is Cosmo World,
which is a little amusement park
suitable for the little or kids in your family.
Back behind the Ferris wheel is the Cupnoodles Museum,
a museum all about cup noodles by the Nissin Corporation.
You can even make your own cup of noodles.
Reservations are required though,
so make sure you reserve your time
to make your cup noodles online before coming here.
If you're like me and you like to visit observatories
on top of towers, definitely check out the observatory
in the Landmark Tower.
Tickets are 1,000 yen.
You can buy them either at the vending machine
or the ticket office.
Turn here to head up the elevator.
The Yokohama Tower elevators are pretty neat.
When they were built, they were the world's fastest.
They take 40 seconds
to go from the ground floor to the 69th floor.
They were recently surpassed by the elevators
in Taipei 101, but they are still Japan's fastest elevators.
The elevators even have a speedometer
to tell you their current speed.
And after 40 seconds, you'll be at the observatory.
The elevators let you out onto the northeast side,
which is the most popular view.
This is where you can see the Minato Mirai district
and the Ferris wheel and the amusement part down below.
They've also got some nice benches that you can sit on.
So, if you're tired, you can sit behind the view,
where you can sort of see out the window.
The southwest side of the observatory
has a collection of neat sofas and tables,
and there's a bar right behind it,
where you can get some alcoholic beverages and some snacks
and enjoy the nighttime view while enjoying your beverages.
And finally, if you look out in this direction,
you can see where we started this video,
the Yokohama Station area.
It's that collection of high-rises right in the middle.
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