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The rainy-day Yokohama, Yokohama

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The rainy-day Yokohama

Wet weather — this port is unusually good in rain. Timed from the gangway and back.

4 hr door to door5 stopsA wet day
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Photo: Suicasmo / CC BY-SA 4.0
Door to door
4 hr
From the gangway and back
Best for
A wet day
Wet weather — this port is unusually good in rain
Room to spare
None
Fits a 6-hour stop with nothing to add (off the ship 30 minutes after arrival, back at the gangway an hour before all-aboard). A longer call gives you the extra time; on this one, do not add a stop.
What it costs
¥0
On foot from Osanbashi (shuttle or taxi from Shinko and Daikoku). No museum entries on this route; lunch and Napolitan (¥2,340) set the rest.
Booking
Nothing
Every stop here takes walk-ups

Timed from the gangway with the port's official timetables · updated · Takumi Yamada

Numbers follow the route below. Pins are the places themselves; walking lines are not drawn because the best way between two stops can change with the tram, the tide or the weather.

The route

How the day runs

Times are from the moment you step off, not from the scheduled arrival. Everything shifts if your ship is late; the order does not.

  1. +0:00
    Walk or shuttle to Chinatown

    From Osanbashi it is ~15 minutes, from Shinko Pier ~25; from Daikoku take the shuttle or a taxi

    What you will see hereFull guide: Chukagai
  2. +0:30
    Eat your way down Chinatown under the awnings

    Butaman, shumai, tanghulu — the whole street is covered enough

    What you will see hereFull guide: Chukagai
    Chinatown, 600 shops deep, Yokohama
    Photo: Syced / CC0
  3. +1:30
    The Red Brick Warehouse, indoors

    Two customs buildings of 1911–13, now shops and cafés

    What you will see hereFull guide: Osanbashi
    Red Brick Warehouses, Yokohama
    Photo: Kakidai / CC BY-SA
  4. +2:30
    Napolitan at the Hotel New Grand

    Invented in this building; harbour outside the window. The Café, 10:00–21:30; Napolitan ¥2,340

    What you will see here
  5. +3:45
    Back to the pier

    About 15 minutes on foot

The margin is not optional. This route ends an hour before all-aboard on purpose. If you are running late, drop the last stop, not the hour.
What the day looks like

Yokohama, along this route

Real photographs of the places above and the streets between them. Every one is credited.

A woodblock print of foreign merchants in Yokohama, 1861
A woodblock print of foreign merchants in Yokohama, 1861Photo: Utagawa Sadahide / Public domain
Silk-reeling machinery at the Tomioka Silk Mill, Yokohama
Silk-reeling machinery at the Tomioka Silk MillPhoto: C1815 / CC0
A bowl of Yokohama ie-kei ramen at Yamazakiya
A bowl of Yokohama ie-kei ramen at YamazakiyaPhoto: ウィ貴公子 / CC BY-SA 4.0
Osanbashi, Yokohama
OsanbashiPhoto: Reginald Pentinio / CC BY 2.0
Sankeien, Yokohama
SankeienPhoto: Mustang Joe / CC0
Kamakura Great Buddha, Yokohama
Kamakura Great BuddhaPhoto: 663highland / CC BY-SA 4.0
Different hours, different day

The other routes in Yokohama

The pier promenadeNeeds a 4.5-hour call · ~2.5hOsanbashi calls — the city arranged around your walkThe Minato Mirai wanderNeeds a 6.5-hour call · ~4.5hMuseums, malls and noodle history in one arcThe Kamakura returnNeeds an 8-hour call · ~6hLong calls, confident train users — the great Buddha south
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