148 spots with MICHELIN Yokohama 2015, MICHELIN Keys 2026 and Tabelog Hyakumeiten · no Eater coverage
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This interactive map of Yokohama (Japan) brings together 148 hand-picked places: 56 attractions, 40 restaurants, 26 cafés and 26 shops. It also includes 5 walking routes with their stops in order. For every place you get what it is, a practical tip and how to get there by public transport. It is free, works on your phone and needs no sign-up.
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7 stops · 4.2 km · ~4 h — cable car, museums and the bay at sunset. Starts at Sakuragicho. · 7 stops
6 stops · 3.1 km · ~3.5 h — Jack, Queen and King, the pier and dinner in the Noge alleys. · 6 stops
7 stops · 3.4 km · ~5 h — the classic: Chinese gates, autumn roses and seven free Western houses. · 7 stops
5 stops · 6.8 km · ~5 h — done by bus from Negishi; the garden asks for a good two hours. · 5 stops
6 stops · 9.5 km · ~5 h — strung together by train: ramen, stadium, Zen temple and the centenary brewery. · 6 stops
コスモクロック21 · Naka-ku, Shinko
The 112.5 m clock-wheel that tells the time over the bay: it changes colour at night and it is THE Yokohama postcard.
Tip: Ride up at sunset and come down with the city lit: one turn takes 15 min and costs about 1,000 yen. You pay per attraction, there is no single pass.
🚇 Minatomirai (Minatomirai Line), exit 5, 8 min on foot
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Show on mapよこはまコスモワールド · Naka-ku, Shinko
An urban amusement park, free to walk into, wedged between skyscrapers and canals: you only pay for the rides you take.
Tip: There is no all-in pass: you buy loose tickets. The roller coaster that dives under the water (Vanish) is the one worth queuing for.
🚇 Sakuragicho (JR Keihin-Tohoku / Blue Line), 10 min on foot
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Show on map安藤百福発明記念館 横浜 · Naka-ku, Shinko
A museum to the most copied invention on earth, where you design your own cup of instant noodles and take it home.
Tip: Entry is 500 yen and the cup workshop another 500, with same-day numbered slots handed out first come, first served. Closed Tuesdays: do not go that day.
🚇 Minatomirai (Minatomirai Line), exit 5, 8 min on foot
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Show on map帆船日本丸 · Nishi-ku, Minatomirai
The 1930 training tall ship moored in Japan's oldest dry dock: with her sails out they call her 'the swan of the Pacific'.
Tip: The combined ticket with the Port Museum is worth it. Check the calendar: there are 'full sail' days announced weeks ahead.
🚇 Sakuragicho (JR Keihin-Tohoku / Blue Line), 5 min on foot
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Show on map横浜赤レンガ倉庫 · Naka-ku, Shinko
Two 1911 customs warehouses turned into shops, food and a terrace over the water: the yard is the city's stage all year.
Tip: From November 20 to December 25 they set up the Christmas Market: tickets from 500 yen, on sale from November 6. Two areas stay free.
🚇 Bashamichi (Minatomirai Line), exit 6, 6 min on foot
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Show on mapヨコハマエアキャビン · Naka-ku, Shinko
A 630 m urban cable car that crosses the canal between Sakuragicho and the Warehouse, floating over the water.
Tip: One way 1,000 yen, return 1,800. At night it is worth double: ride out in the cabin and walk back along the Kisha-michi.
🚇 Sakuragicho (JR Keihin-Tohoku / Blue Line), East exit, 1 min on foot
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Show on map臨港パーク · Nishi-ku, Minatomirai
The biggest lawn on the bay, with stone steps going down to the water and a clean view of the Bay Bridge.
Tip: It is the best place to watch the sunset for free and without crowds. Bring something to eat: almost nothing around is open at night.
🚇 Minatomirai (Minatomirai Line), exit 1, 10 min on foot
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Show on map象の鼻パーク · Naka-ku, Kaigan-dori
The curved 1859 pier where the port began, now an open park with an art terrace and an unusual view of the three towers.
Tip: From here you see Jack, Queen and King at once: one of the three official viewpoints in the three-towers game. Look southwest.
🚇 Nihon-odori (Minatomirai Line), exit 1, 4 min on foot
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Show on map横浜ハンマーヘッド · Naka-ku, Shinko
A cruise terminal with a food hall, craft chocolate and the 1914 hammerhead crane that gives it its name.
Tip: With a cruise ship docked the place fills up; without one, the terrace tables are all yours at sunset.
🚇 Bashamichi (Minatomirai Line), exit 6, 12 min on foot
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Show on map横浜美術館 · Nishi-ku, Minatomirai
Kenzo Tange's museum reopened in March 2024 after three years of works: a strong collection of photography and Japanese avant-garde.
Tip: The art library and the great atrium hall are free to use even if you skip the exhibition. Closed Thursdays.
🚇 Minatomirai (Minatomirai Line), exit 3, 5 min on foot
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Show on map三菱みなとみらい技術館 · Nishi-ku, Minatomirai
H-II rockets, a real submersible and helicopter simulators: heavy engineering explained so kids get it.
Tip: 500 yen, and it closes Tuesdays AND Wednesdays, which is the classic trap. Over-65s and preschoolers go free.
🚇 Minatomirai (Minatomirai Line), exit 4, 3 min on foot
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Show on map横浜アンパンマンこどもミュージアム · Nishi-ku, Minatomirai
The bread-headed hero every Japanese kid knows, in his own museum with a stage, a themed bakery and shops.
Tip: The ground floor with the shops and the bakery is free to enter: if your child is tiny, that may be enough.
🚇 Shin-Takashima (Minatomirai Line), exit 3, 3 min on foot
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Show on mapスカイガーデン · Nishi-ku, Minatomirai
The 69th-floor observatory has been CLOSED since January 1, 2026 for the tower's full refurbishment; it is not expected to reopen until 2028.
Tip: Almost every guide still recommends it. You cannot go up today, and the hotel on the 70th floor is closed too. For a view from above: Marine Tower.
🚇 Minatomirai (Minatomirai Line), exit 5, 3 min on foot
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Show on mapドックヤードガーデン · Nishi-ku, Minatomirai
The 1896 stone dry dock, a National Treasure, restored as a sunken plaza at the foot of the city's tallest tower.
Tip: It is free and plenty of people walk past above without going down. At night they light it and it beats the daytime version.
🚇 Minatomirai (Minatomirai Line), exit 5, 2 min on foot
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Show on map汽車道 · Nishi-ku, Minatomirai
A walkway over the iron bridges of the old port rail spur, with the rails still set into the deck.
Tip: Do it from Sakuragicho towards World Porters at dusk: the wheel and the tower sit straight ahead the whole way.
🚇 Sakuragicho (JR Keihin-Tohoku / Blue Line), 4 min on foot
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Show on mapKアリーナ横浜 · Nishi-ku, Minatomirai
It opened in September 2023 with 20,033 seats built for music only: one of the largest music arenas in the world.
Tip: There is no standing floor: every seat is numbered and the farthest tier sits about 65 m from the stage. Check the listings before you travel.
🚇 Shin-Takashima (Minatomirai Line), exit 2, 5 min on foot
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Show on mapキングの塔 · Naka-ku, Nihon-odori
The 1928 seat of the Kanagawa government, with a stepped 'imperial crown' tower: the King of the harbour trio.
Tip: The top-floor terrace opens to the public on weekdays and it is free. You go in through the lobby, no paperwork.
🚇 Nihon-odori (Minatomirai Line), exit 3, 2 min on foot
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Show on mapクイーンの塔 · Naka-ku, Kaigan-dori
The 1934 customs house with its green Islamic dome, the slenderest of the three towers and the only one with a museum inside.
Tip: The little customs museum is free and has a case of seized fakes that is one of the most fun things downtown.
🚇 Nihon-odori (Minatomirai Line), exit 1, 5 min on foot
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Show on map横浜市開港記念会館 · Naka-ku, Honcho
Red brick and stained glass from 1917, built by public subscription for the port's 50th year: the Jack of the three towers.
Tip: It is a working cultural centre: with no event on, you walk in free to see the hall's stained glass and the staircase. Closed the fourth Monday.
🚇 Nihon-odori (Minatomirai Line), exit 1, 2 min on foot
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Show on map横浜三塔 展望ポイント · Naka-ku, Shinko
One of the three exact spots where Jack, Queen and King line up: legend says it grants a wish.
Tip: The three spots are this one, Osanbashi pier and Zou-no-hana. Doing all three in a day is the local game: keep a photo from each.
🚇 Bashamichi (Minatomirai Line), exit 6, 7 min on foot
Featured in: Yokohama Official Visitors' Guide · OSM viewpoint
Show on map大さん橋 · Naka-ku, Kaigan-dori
A cruise terminal without a single column, with a rolling timber-plank roof you walk like a dune.
Tip: The upper deck is free and open 24 hours: the best free night view in the city, better than any paid observatory.
🚇 Nihon-odori (Minatomirai Line), exit 1, 7 min on foot
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Show on map神奈川県立歴史博物館 · Naka-ku, Minaminakadori
Under the dome of the former Yokohama Specie Bank (1904), an Important Cultural Property: Kanagawa's history from prehistory on.
Tip: The building alone justifies the stop. Closed Mondays and general entry runs around 300 yen: one of the cheapest downtown.
🚇 Bashamichi (Minatomirai Line), exit 5, 1 min on foot
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Show on map横浜開港資料館 · Naka-ku, Nihon-odori
On the site of the old British consulate, with the 'Perry tree' in the courtyard: the treaty that opened Japan was signed here in 1854.
Tip: The courtyard with the tabunoki and the cafe are free to enter. If you go into the exhibition, ask for the English sheet: the panels are in Japanese.
🚇 Nihon-odori (Minatomirai Line), exit 3, 2 min on foot
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Show on mapシルク博物館 · Naka-ku, Yamashitacho
Yokohama exported the silk that dressed half the West; this museum tells that trade and keeps real silkworms growing.
Tip: It is the perfect warm-up for understanding the Yokohama silk scarf. Then you cross to Motomachi and see the real ones.
🚇 Nihon-odori (Minatomirai Line), exit 1, 3 min on foot
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Show on map横浜公園 · Naka-ku, Yokohamakoen
Japan's second Western-style park (1876), now with 160,000 tulips in spring and the ballpark in the middle.
Tip: Hardly anyone finds the Japanese garden at the back, the Peony Garden: it sits behind the stadium and it is the quietest corner downtown.
🚇 Kannai (JR Keihin-Tohoku / Blue Line), 2 min on foot
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Show on map横浜スタジアム · Naka-ku, Yokohamakoen
The 'Hamasta' of the Yokohama DeNA BayStars, set inside a public park and with no naming rights sold.
Tip: It is one of the few Japanese stadiums still carrying its own name. Buy on the official site: the day-of box office almost never has anything left.
🚇 Kannai (JR Keihin-Tohoku / Blue Line), 1 min on foot
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Show on map横浜市立野毛山動物園 · Nishi-ku, Oimatsucho
A free city zoo on a hill above Noge, with leopards, penguins and a petting pen for the little ones.
Tip: No entry fee, not even for children. Closed Mondays. Pair it with the park lookout, a few steps away.
🚇 Hinodecho (Keikyu Line), 10 min on foot
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Show on map鉄道発祥の地 · Naka-ku, Sakuragicho
The 1872 Yokohama station stood here, the end of Japan's first railway line, which ran to Shimbashi.
Tip: It sits on the Sakuragicho pavement and 99% of people walk straight past. Next to it there is a locomotive replica: that is the obvious photo.
🚇 Sakuragicho (JR Keihin-Tohoku / Blue Line), East exit, 1 min on foot
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Show on map中華街大通り · Naka-ku, Yamashitacho
The spine of Japan's largest Chinatown: more than 500 businesses in barely 0.2 km², all packed between ten Chinese gates.
Tip: The tabehodai buffets on the main street have slid a long way: you pay less and eat better at the single-speciality places.
🚇 Motomachi-Chukagai (Minatomirai Line), exit 2, 2 min on foot
Featured in: Asociación de Yokohama Chinatown · Yokohama Official Visitors' Guide
Show on map善隣門 · Naka-ku, Yamashitacho
The most photographed gate in the district, with the gold 'Chukagai' sign: not one of the four cardinal gates, but it is the postcard.
Tip: Careful with the claim going around: the four cardinal gates are Chōyō, Suzaku, Enpei and Genbu. Zenrin is the famous one, not one of the four.
🚇 Motomachi-Chukagai (Minatomirai Line), exit 2, 4 min on foot
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Show on map朝陽門（青龍門）· Naka-ku, Yamashitacho
The east gate, blue, guarded by the Azure Dragon: 13.5 m tall, the largest of the district's ten.
Tip: It is the one straight ahead if you come from Yamashita Park. The four cardinal gates each have their own colour and animal: collect them.
🚇 Motomachi-Chukagai (Minatomirai Line), exit 1, 3 min on foot
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Show on map延平門（白虎門）· Naka-ku, Yamashitacho
The west gate, white, guarded by the White Tiger: the one that greets you if you walk in from Ishikawacho.
Tip: Coming in here instead of from Motomachi-Chukagai station saves you the main street's rush hour.
🚇 Ishikawacho (JR Keihin-Tohoku), North exit, 4 min on foot
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Show on map横浜関帝廟 · Naka-ku, Yamashitacho
The temple of Guan Yu, god of business, has beaten at the heart of the district since the Chinese community's earliest years.
Tip: The courtyard is free; going up to the main hall asks for a small offering. Buy the incense at the entrance stall, not outside.
🚇 Motomachi-Chukagai (Minatomirai Line), exit 2, 3 min on foot
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Show on map横浜媽祖廟 · Naka-ku, Yamashitacho
The temple of Mazu, goddess of the sea, opened in 2006 as a branch of the great Tainan temple: the newest and the most gilded.
Tip: The inner precinct asks for a token contribution that includes the incense. The outer courtyard is free.
🚇 Motomachi-Chukagai (Minatomirai Line), exit 2, 2 min on foot
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Show on map山下公園 · Naka-ku, Yamashitacho
A seafront park raised from the rubble of the 1923 earthquake, with a rose garden and the ginkgo avenue alongside.
Tip: The Mirai no Bara-en rose garden blooms from mid-October to mid-November: right now is the moment. It is free and always open.
🚇 Motomachi-Chukagai (Minatomirai Line), exit 4, 3 min on foot
Featured in: Garden Necklace Yokohama · Ciudad de Yokohama
Show on map氷川丸 · Naka-ku, Yamashitacho
A 1930 ocean liner from the Yokohama–Seattle run, with her art deco cabins intact; Chaplin sailed on her.
Tip: You get the whole engine room, which is the best part of the ship and the emptiest. Closed Mondays.
🚇 Motomachi-Chukagai (Minatomirai Line), exit 4, 5 min on foot
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Show on map横浜マリンタワー · Naka-ku, Yamashitacho
A 106 m lighthouse-observatory from 1961, refurbished in 2022: with the Sky Garden closed, it is the height the city has left.
Tip: It is today the best paid view in Yokohama, because the competition is under works until 2028. Go at night: you get the whole Bay Bridge.
🚇 Motomachi-Chukagai (Minatomirai Line), exit 4, 2 min on foot
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Show on map港の見える丘公園 · Naka-ku, Yamate
Yokohama's balcony: from the edge of the Bluff you see the whole Bay Bridge, with two rose gardens and Western houses around.
Tip: The autumn roses are at their peak now, between mid-October and mid-November. Free entry and open at night.
🚇 Motomachi-Chukagai (Minatomirai Line), exit 6, 8 min on foot
Featured in: Garden Necklace Yokohama · Ciudad de Yokohama
Show on mapベーリックホール · Naka-ku, Yamate
The largest Western house left on the Bluff (1930), built for a British merchant, with an Andalusian patio and stained glass.
Tip: All seven of Yamate's municipal Western houses are FREE. Berrick closes on the second Wednesday of the month.
🚇 Motomachi-Chukagai (Minatomirai Line), exit 5, 10 min on foot
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Show on mapエリスマン邸 · Naka-ku, Yamate
A 1926 house by the Czech architect Antonin Raymond, a disciple of Frank Lloyd Wright, with a cafe on the ground floor.
Tip: Free entry, and the cafe inside is open without paying for the house. It is the rest stop on the Yamate circuit.
🚇 Motomachi-Chukagai (Minatomirai Line), exit 5, 9 min on foot
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Show on map山手111番館 · Naka-ku, Yamate
A 1926 Spanish-style house leaning over the Harbor View Park rose garden, with a basement turned tea room.
Tip: Free entry and the balcony hangs right over the autumn roses, in bloom now. It is the best photo in the park.
🚇 Motomachi-Chukagai (Minatomirai Line), exit 6, 8 min on foot
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Show on map横浜市イギリス館 · Naka-ku, Yamate
The British consul's residence, from 1937, with the best-kept rose garden on the Bluff right off the veranda.
Tip: Free. The rose garden below is in full autumn bloom: between this one and Harbor View you have the best roses on the map today.
🚇 Motomachi-Chukagai (Minatomirai Line), exit 6, 9 min on foot
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Show on map外交官の家 · Naka-ku, Yamate
An American Victorian house from 1910 built for the diplomat Uchida Sadatsuchi and moved here from Tokyo: an Important Cultural Property.
Tip: Of the seven houses it is the only one listed as a national Important Cultural Property. The veranda cafe looks onto the Italian Garden.
🚇 Ishikawacho (JR Keihin-Tohoku), South exit, 5 min on foot
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Show on map山手イタリア山庭園 · Naka-ku, Yamate
A terraced garden on the site of the Italian consulate, with a water channel, geometric beds and a view of Minato Mirai.
Tip: Free and always open. The autumn roses in the beds are giving now: it is the natural start of the Yamate walk.
🚇 Ishikawacho (JR Keihin-Tohoku), South exit, 5 min on foot
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Show on map日本庭球発祥之地 · Naka-ku, Yamate
In 1876 the British residents of the Bluff played Japan's first tennis match right here; there are still courts.
Tip: It is inside Yamate Park. One of the many 'firsts' that entered Japan through this port: look for the monument, it is small.
🚇 Motomachi-Chukagai (Minatomirai Line), exit 6, 12 min on foot
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Show on map麒麟麦酒開源記念碑 · Naka-ku, Yamate
On this slope, in 1870, a Norwegian-American set up Japan's first commercial brewery; Kirin came out of it.
Tip: The little park is called Kirin-en. If you go on to the Kirin factory in Namamugi, this monument is where that story starts.
🚇 Motomachi-Chukagai (Minatomirai Line), exit 6, 15 min on foot
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Show on mapアメリカ山公園 · Naka-ku, Motomachi
A park built on the station roof: you come out of the ticket gates, take a lift and you are already on top of the Bluff.
Tip: The shortcut almost nobody uses: it skips the whole Yamate climb. Take exit 6 and you are in the park, no stairs.
🚇 Motomachi-Chukagai (Minatomirai Line), exit 6, 0 min — it is the exit
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Show on map三溪園 · Naka-ku, Honmoku
A 175,000 m² garden that the silk magnate Hara Sankei filled with 17 historic buildings brought from Kyoto, Nara and Kamakura.
Tip: The chrysanthemum show runs until November 23. The momiji here only turns in early December: today it is still green.
🚇 Negishi (JR Negishi Line) + bus 58/99/101, get off at Honmoku
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Show on map根岸森林公園 · Naka-ku, Negishidai
On Japan's first racecourse (1866), with the ghost grandstand of 1929 still standing at the edge of the lawn.
Tip: You cannot go into the grandstand, you see it from outside: raw concrete eaten by plants and the strangest photo in Yokohama.
🚇 Negishi (JR Negishi Line), 15 min on foot uphill
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Show on map新横浜ラーメン博物館 · Kohoku-ku, Shin-Yokohama
Below street level they rebuilt a Japanese street of 1958, with ramen shops from all over the country serving small bowls.
Tip: Entry is 450 yen and there is a digital annual pass for 500: two visits and it already pays. Order half bowls to try more shops.
🚇 Shin-Yokohama (JR / Blue Line), exit 8, 5 min on foot
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Show on map日産スタジアム · Kohoku-ku, Kozukue
Japan's biggest stadium (72,000 seats), host of the 2002 World Cup final and of the concerts that fill the city.
Tip: The naming rights were renewed in March 2026 for five years: it will keep the name Nissan Stadium until 2031.
🚇 Shin-Yokohama (JR / Blue Line), exit 8, 12 min on foot
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Show on mapキリンビール横浜工場 · Tsurumi-ku, Namamugi
The factory turns 100 in 2026 and its guided tour has been redone: they explain the Ichiban Shibori and you finish with a tasting.
Tip: You have to book online, it costs 1,000 yen and runs 90 minutes. Closed Mondays. It is the perfect plan for using your phone data.
🚇 Namamugi (Keikyu Line), 10 min on foot
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Show on map大本山總持寺 · Tsurumi-ku, Tsurumi
One of Japan's two head temples of Sōtō Zen, with 15 hectares of forest and trainee monks every day.
Tip: The grounds are free and huge, and barely see foreign visitors. There are monk-led tours you book by phone.
🚇 Tsurumi (JR Keihin-Tohoku), West exit, 7 min on foot
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Show on map三ツ池公園 · Tsurumi-ku, Mitsuikekoen
Three linked ponds in a valley, with 78 cherry varieties and the best-turning woods in the north of the city.
Tip: Today it is still green: the strong colour only arrives here in late November and December, the same as at Sankeien.
🚇 Tsurumi (JR Keihin-Tohoku) + bus, get off at Mitsuike Koen Kita-mon
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Show on map横浜・八景島シーパラダイス · Kanazawa-ku, Hakkeijima
A whole island of aquariums and rides in the bay: getting onto the island costs nothing and you pay only for what you use.
Tip: Island entry free. The four-aquarium pass is 3,500 yen and the rides pass another 3,500; the combo, 5,900. Choose, do not buy everything.
🚇 Hakkeijima (Seaside Line), 2 min on foot
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Show on map称名寺 · Kanazawa-ku, Kanazawa
A Hojo clan temple with a Kamakura-period pond garden rebuilt exactly as it was, with two arched red bridges.
Tip: Grounds and garden are free and open all day. The arched bridge at sunset is the photo; take it from the west bank.
🚇 Kanazawa-Bunko (Keikyu Line), East exit, 12 min on foot
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Show on map景徳鎮 · Naka-ku, Yamashitacho
Uncompromising Sichuan since 1979: the mapo tofu really burns and it is the dish people queue on the pavement for.
Tip: Order the mapo tofu and white rice, nothing else. If you want it milder say so when ordering: by default it comes serious.
🚇 Motomachi-Chukagai (Minatomirai Line), exit 2, 4 min on foot
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Show on map菜香新館 · Naka-ku, Yamashitacho
Refined Cantonese over several floors, known for hand-made dim sum and for the prawn rolls in rice sheet.
Tip: At lunch there is a reasonably priced dim sum set; at night the bill doubles. Book if you go on a weekend.
🚇 Motomachi-Chukagai (Minatomirai Line), exit 2, 3 min on foot
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Show on map山東 一号店 · Naka-ku, Yamashitacho
The one with the garlic-and-coriander boiled gyoza the whole district copies: a permanent queue and tight seats.
Tip: The boiled gyoza with the garlic sauce are the reason for the queue. There are two branches half a block apart: if one has a line, try the other.
🚇 Motomachi-Chukagai (Minatomirai Line), exit 2, 4 min on foot
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Show on map海員閣 · Naka-ku, Yamashitacho
A postwar Cantonese diner, worn wooden counter and a short menu: the proof of what Chinatown was before tourism.
Tip: Short hours and it closes when the food runs out. If you want to eat here, come early at lunch, not at two in the afternoon.
🚇 Motomachi-Chukagai (Minatomirai Line), exit 2, 4 min on foot
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Show on map中華菜館 同發 本館 · Naka-ku, Yamashitacho
A classic Cantonese house famous for the roast pork hanging in the window: char siu has been the speciality for decades.
Tip: The ground-floor shop sells the same roast pork to take away, at half the sit-down price. Ideal for the train.
🚇 Motomachi-Chukagai (Minatomirai Line), exit 2, 3 min on foot
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Show on map謝甜記 · Naka-ku, Yamashitacho
The congee the district has had for breakfast since 1950: chicken-and-bone broth simmered all night, rice cooked down to cream.
Tip: It opens early and it is the best breakfast idea in Yokohama if you are tired of toast. The pollock one is the classic.
🚇 Motomachi-Chukagai (Minatomirai Line), exit 2, 4 min on foot
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Show on map保昌 · Naka-ku, Yamashitacho
The 'gyuniku no kuromiso itame' — beef stir-fried in black miso — is a dish that exists only here and that is what people come for.
Tip: Order the house dish even if you cannot read it on the menu: point at the photo. It is the only real reason to come in.
🚇 Motomachi-Chukagai (Minatomirai Line), exit 2, 3 min on foot
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Show on map清風楼 · Naka-ku, Yamashitacho
Old-style shumai, just pork and onion, hand-made in a tiny shop that opens for a few hours.
Tip: It closes early and the rest days change. If you are in the area at lunch, go in when you see it open, do not leave it for later.
🚇 Motomachi-Chukagai (Minatomirai Line), exit 2, 4 min on foot
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Show on map安記 · Naka-ku, Yamashitacho
Another congee temple in the district, a narrow counter and a three-line menu: what you order is soupy rice.
Tip: It is the backup when Shatenki has a queue, and it is one block away. Same dish, same logic, fewer people.
🚇 Motomachi-Chukagai (Minatomirai Line), exit 2, 4 min on foot
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Show on map一楽 · Naka-ku, Yamashitacho
An old-school Chinese noodle joint, with the clear-broth ramen the port workers ate, not the tourists.
Tip: The dish is the tanmen or the plain ramen, not the elaborate plates. Eating here costs half what the main street does.
🚇 Motomachi-Chukagai (Minatomirai Line), exit 2, 4 min on foot
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Show on map重慶飯店 · Naka-ku, Yamashitacho
A Sichuan institution since 1959, with the sponge 'number one bun' that became the district's sweet souvenir.
Tip: If you do not want to sit down, the shop next door sells the bun and the house sauces: the best cheap gift in Chinatown.
🚇 Motomachi-Chukagai (Minatomirai Line), exit 2, 3 min on foot
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Show on map江戸清 · Naka-ku, Yamashitacho
The fist-sized buta-man that invented the habit of eating while walking through Chinatown, since 1894.
Tip: It is huge: one each works as lunch. There are benches on the side street to eat it sitting down without making a mess.
🚇 Motomachi-Chukagai (Minatomirai Line), exit 2, 3 min on foot
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Show on map萬来亭 · Naka-ku, Yamashitacho
A small family Shanghainese place, with steamed niku-man and fried noodles ordered by locals, not by the queue.
Tip: It is off the main street, which is exactly why it is worth it. If the avenue got to you, walk two blocks and come in here.
🚇 Motomachi-Chukagai (Minatomirai Line), exit 2, 5 min on foot
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Show on map華正樓 新館 · Naka-ku, Yamashitacho
Black-tie Cantonese in a building carved with dragons: Peking duck, private rooms and the priciest menu in the district.
Tip: This is the new branch; the original house is two blocks away. To try it without spending a fortune, look for the lunch set.
🚇 Nihon-odori (Minatomirai Line), exit 3, 5 min on foot
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Show on map家系総本山 吉村家 · Nishi-ku, Minamisaiwai
Iekei ramen was born here in 1974: pork-bone broth with soy sauce, thick noodles and spinach. The mother house.
Tip: It moved to the new two-floor shop in Okano in March 2023. Closed Mondays and there is almost always a queue: an hour is normal.
🚇 Hiranumabashi (Sotetsu Line), 4 min on foot
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Show on map麺場 浜虎 · Kanagawa-ku, Tsuruyacho
Modern Yokohama ramen, with a chicken broth version and a vegetable one that broke the district's mould.
Tip: Order the 'tori soba' if you want to understand why it made the list. It is six minutes from the station and open late.
🚇 Yokohama (JR / Keikyu / Sotetsu / Tokyu), West exit, 6 min on foot
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Show on map横浜中華そば 維新商店 · Nishi-ku, Asahina
Clear-broth chuka soba with thin noodles, the exact opposite of the thick iekei that made the city famous.
Tip: It is a few steps from Yoshimuraya: if the iekei queue scares you, cross over here and you eat just as well in ten minutes.
🚇 Hiranumabashi (Sotetsu Line), 4 min on foot
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Show on map横浜家系ラーメン 黄金家 · Naka-ku, Wakabacho
Hard-core iekei, thick broth and the option to set your own fat, salt and noodle firmness.
Tip: When you order they ask three things: noodle, fat and salt. If you are unsure, say 'futsu' to all three and you get the standard.
🚇 Koganecho (Keikyu Line), 4 min on foot
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Show on map横濱家系ラーメン 勝鬨家 · Naka-ku, Chojamachi
A neighbourhood iekei near Isezakicho, with the free white rice tradition says to dunk in the leftover broth.
Tip: The rice is free and there is spare nori on the table: the local move is to wrap the rice in seaweed dipped in broth.
🚇 Isezaki-Chojamachi (Blue Line), exit 1, 3 min on foot
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Show on map横浜ラーメン 田上家 · Minami-ku, Gumyoji
One of the best-loved iekei in the south of the city, off the tourist circuit and with everyday regulars.
Tip: It is in Gumyoji, fifteen minutes from downtown by subway. Pair it with the temple and the neighbourhood shopping arcade.
🚇 Gumyoji (Blue Line), exit 1, 5 min on foot
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Show on map横濱丿貫 · Nishi-ku, Kitasaiwai
Author's ramen with a very concentrated dried-fish broth: one of the kitchens that redrew Yokohama's ramen map.
Tip: This is the branch near the station; the original house is in Fukutomicho, in Kannai. Both are worth it, this one is the convenient one.
🚇 Yokohama (JR / Keikyu / Sotetsu / Tokyu), West exit, 5 min on foot
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Show on map塩らー麺 本丸亭 · Naka-ku, Motomachi
Salt ramen with a clear chicken broth, the light option in a city that lives on thick broth.
Tip: It is the ramen stop right on your way through Motomachi. If you come down from Yamate tired, it is exactly what you need.
🚇 Motomachi-Chukagai (Minatomirai Line), exit 5, 3 min on foot
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Show on mapラーメン杉田家 · Isogo-ku, Sugita
One of the few 'direct' shops authorised by Yoshimuraya: the same iekei recipe, open 24 hours.
Tip: It is open 24 hours, which in Japan is very rare for good ramen. If your flight leaves before dawn, it is the last possible meal.
🚇 Shin-Sugita (Seaside Line / JR Negishi), 5 min on foot
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Show on mapホテルニューグランド本館 · Naka-ku, Yamashitacho
Napolitan spaghetti, seafood doria and pudding à la mode were all born in this 1927 hotel. All three are still on the menu.
Tip: The doria was created by the Swiss chef Sally Weil in 1927 and the Napolitan by chef Irie after the war. Order one of the three, nothing else.
🚇 Motomachi-Chukagai (Minatomirai Line), exit 1, 3 min on foot
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Show on mapインターコンチネンタル横浜Pier 8 · Naka-ku, Shinko
A hotel on the pier with a restaurant and rooftop open to the public: third year running with 1 MICHELIN Key.
Tip: No need to stay the night: the restaurant and the terrace bar take anyone. Book if you want the table facing the water.
🚇 Bashamichi (Minatomirai Line), exit 6, 12 min on foot
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Show on mapザ・カハラ・ホテル＆リゾート横浜 · Nishi-ku, Minatomirai
The Japanese outpost of the Honolulu hotel, with a dining room and tea lounge open to non-guests. Third year with 1 MICHELIN Key.
Tip: Afternoon tea is the cheapest way in: you book online and you do not have to stay. Check the calendar, it changes by season.
🚇 Shin-Takashima (Minatomirai Line), exit 2, 5 min on foot
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Show on map太田なわのれん · Naka-ku, Choja
It opened in 1868 and claims to have invented gyunabe, the beef-and-miso hotpot that was modern Japan's first beef.
Tip: It is served in an individual pot and you have to book. It is expensive, but it is the most historic meal you can order in Yokohama.
🚇 Isezaki-Chojamachi (Blue Line), exit 1, 4 min on foot
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Show on map崎陽軒 · Nishi-ku, Minamisaiwai
The 1928 scallop shumai and the Shiumai Bento, Japan's best-selling ekiben: more than 40,000 boxes a day.
Tip: The classic box brings shumai, fish and red ginger, and it is designed to be eaten cold. Buy it at the station, not on the train.
🚇 Yokohama (JR / Keikyu / Sotetsu / Tokyu), in the arcade under the station
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Show on map勝烈庵 本店 · Naka-ku, Bashamichi
A Bashamichi tonkatsu house since 1927, with its own sauce and free refills of shredded cabbage.
Tip: Cabbage and rice are refilled free: ask for little at first. The house sauce is sold bottled at the door.
🚇 Bashamichi (Minatomirai Line), exit 5, 3 min on foot
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Show on map荒井屋 · Naka-ku, Honcho
Another historic Yokohama gyunabe house, from 1895, where the beef is eaten from the pot with miso and raw egg.
Tip: At lunch there is a beef bowl at normal lunch prices: the cheap way to try the dish the city invented.
🚇 Bashamichi (Minatomirai Line), exit 1, 4 min on foot
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Show on map仏蘭西料亭 横濱元町 霧笛楼 · Naka-ku, Motomachi
A French house in Motomachi since 1981, with period tableware and a kitchen that looks back to nineteenth-century Yokohama.
Tip: It is formal and you book. If you want the accessible version, the cafe next door sells its cakes with no booking and no dress code.
🚇 Motomachi-Chukagai (Minatomirai Line), exit 5, 4 min on foot
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Show on map山手十番館 · Naka-ku, Yamate
A French restaurant in a white timber house from 1967 facing the foreign cemetery, with a veranda and garden.
Tip: The ground floor works as a cafe and asks for no booking and no full meal: you walk in, order coffee and use the veranda.
🚇 Motomachi-Chukagai (Minatomirai Line), exit 5, 9 min on foot
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Show on map野毛たべもの横丁 · Naka-ku, Nogecho
A postwar stall alley in the heart of Noge: eight or ten tiny bars stuck one against the next.
Tip: Noge lights up after seven and not before. The custom is one drink at each bar and then move on.
🚇 Sakuragicho (JR Keihin-Tohoku / Blue Line), South exit, 4 min on foot
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Show on map野毛ホルモンセンター · Naka-ku, Nogecho
Grilled offal on tin tables, with the street as the dining room and smoke pouring out of the open door.
Tip: The outside tables are the good ones and they fill first. Come at six if you want one, or wait standing with a beer.
🚇 Sakuragicho (JR Keihin-Tohoku / Blue Line), South exit, 4 min on foot
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Show on map生香園 本館 · Naka-ku, Bashamichi
Historic Cantonese on Bashamichi, outside Chinatown, with the sweet-and-sour pork and the crab the office crowd orders.
Tip: It is Yokohama Chinese food without the Chinatown queue, ten minutes away on foot. At lunch the set is cheap.
🚇 Bashamichi (Minatomirai Line), exit 5, 3 min on foot
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Show on map梅蘭 · Naka-ku, Sakuragicho
Fried noodles sealed into a golden cake, crisp outside and soft inside: an invention of Yokohama's Chinatown.
Tip: The dish is the 'Bairan yakisoba' and it looks like no other yakisoba in Japan. One portion feeds two.
🚇 Sakuragicho (JR Keihin-Tohoku / Blue Line), East exit, 3 min on foot
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Show on mapありあけ ハーバースタジオ · Naka-ku, Shinko
The factory-cafe of the 'Harbour', the boat-shaped chestnut cake that has been Yokohama's sweet souvenir since 1954.
Tip: Here they sell them fresh and warm, which no station kiosk does. The difference from the packaged ones is huge.
🚇 Bashamichi (Minatomirai Line), exit 6, 12 min on foot
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Show on map韓国料理 ソウル亭 · Tsurumi-ku, Tsurumi-chuo
Tsurumi is Yokohama's migrant district and its Nakadori street mixes Korean, Okinawan and South American cooking.
Tip: On Nakadori there are real Peruvian and Brazilian grocers and canteens, many with no sign in Japanese. Walk the street and read the windows.
🚇 Tsurumi (JR Keihin-Tohoku), East exit, 5 min on foot
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Show on mapとんちゃん 鶴見本店 · Tsurumi-ku, Tsurumi-chuo
A Tsurumi offal grill with half a century of neighbourhood on it, from the days when the area was all factory workers.
Tip: Tsurumi barely gets tourists and the prices show it. Come down here after Sōji-ji and you dine for half what downtown costs.
🚇 Tsurumi (JR Keihin-Tohoku), East exit, 4 min on foot
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Show on map崎陽軒 本店 · Nishi-ku, Takashima
Kiyoken's head house, with Chinese restaurants and a shop where the shumai come warm out of the steamer.
Tip: The warm shumai here are nothing like the ones in the cold box. If you only try one version, make it this one.
🚇 Yokohama (JR / Keikyu / Sotetsu / Tokyu), East exit, 4 min on foot
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Show on mapウチキパン · Naka-ku, Motomachi
A Motomachi bakery founded in 1888 by an English baker's apprentice: Japanese sliced bread came out of here.
Tip: The loaf to ask for is the 'England', made with hop sourdough. Closed Mondays and the best bake comes out early in the morning.
🚇 Motomachi-Chukagai (Minatomirai Line), exit 5, 4 min on foot
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Show on map馬車道十番館 · Naka-ku, Bashamichi
A cafe in a replica Meiji building with gas lamps on the pavement, waistcoated waiters and a case of old-fashioned cakes.
Tip: Order the 'Beer sable' or the house ice cream in the ground-floor room: the cheap way into a place that looks expensive.
🚇 Bashamichi (Minatomirai Line), exit 5, 2 min on foot
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Show on mapジャズ喫茶 ちぐさ · Naka-ku, Nogecho
Japan's oldest jazz cafe, open in Noge since 1933: you listen in silence and the records are vinyl.
Tip: The house rule is no loud talking: you come to listen. You can ask for a record off the shelf and they will play it.
🚇 Sakuragicho (JR Keihin-Tohoku / Blue Line), South exit, 5 min on foot
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Show on mapコーヒーの大学院 ルミエール・ド・パリ · Naka-ku, Isezakicho
'The graduate school of coffee': a baroque room from 1974 with chandeliers, red velvet and coffee served on silver.
Tip: Order the siphon coffee, which is the whole point of the place. The price is high for a coffee and low for what you are looking at.
🚇 Kannai (JR Keihin-Tohoku / Blue Line), South exit, 3 min on foot
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Show on mapえの木てい · Naka-ku, Yamate
A 1927 Western house on the Bluff turned tea room, with a rose garden and the house cherry tart.
Tip: The cherry tart is the classic and it sells out. The rose garden at the back is in bloom now: ask for an outside table if the sun is out.
🚇 Motomachi-Chukagai (Minatomirai Line), exit 5, 9 min on foot
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Show on mapカフェ・ザ・ローズ · Naka-ku, Yamate
The literature museum's cafe, with a picture window onto the Harbor View Park roses and the Bay Bridge behind the flowers.
Tip: You get in without paying for the museum. The autumn roses keep giving until mid-November: the best seat in the park.
🚇 Motomachi-Chukagai (Minatomirai Line), exit 6, 9 min on foot
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Show on mapしょうゆ・きゃふぇ エリスマン邸 · Naka-ku, Yamate
The cafe on the ground floor of the Ehrismann house, with desserts built on soy sauce and the original 1926 room.
Tip: You walk in free, because the house is free. The logical rest stop halfway through the seven-houses circuit.
🚇 Motomachi-Chukagai (Minatomirai Line), exit 5, 9 min on foot
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Show on mapブラフガーデンカフェ · Naka-ku, Yamate
A cafe with a veranda inside the Italian Garden, with open-air tables facing the beds and the Minato Mirai skyline.
Tip: It sits next to Bluff No.18, which is free. Breakfast here and start Yamate from the top down: that is the right order.
🚇 Ishikawacho (JR Keihin-Tohoku), South exit, 5 min on foot
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Show on map三溪園 茶寮 · Naka-ku, Honmoku
A tea room inside Sankeien, with dango, matcha and the hot oden that saves you from the garden's autumn damp.
Tip: It is in the outer section, before the pond. Order the matcha with wagashi: they serve it facing the water and they do not overcharge.
🚇 Negishi (JR Negishi Line) + bus 58/99/101, get off at Honmoku
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Show on map萬珍茶坊 · Naka-ku, Honmoku
A Chinese tea house in Chinatown style, with leaf tea served in a gaiwan and sweet dim sum alongside.
Tip: The tea comes in successive infusions on the same leaves: do not down it in one go, it lasts a good hour.
🚇 Negishi (JR Negishi Line) + bus, get off at Honmoku
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Show on mapカフェ・ザン · Naka-ku, Yamashitacho
The Japanese branch of Hanoi's egg coffee, right in Chinatown: yolk whipped with condensed milk over hot coffee.
Tip: Order the hot 'egg coffee', not the cold one: the cream texture only works hot. You start it with a spoon.
🚇 Motomachi-Chukagai (Minatomirai Line), exit 2, 3 min on foot
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Show on map喜久家洋菓子舗 · Naka-ku, Motomachi
A Western confectionery in Motomachi since 1946, famous for the 'rum ball', a sponge ball soaked in rum.
Tip: The rum ball carries real rum and is not for children. Sold by the piece, it is the cheapest and most local souvenir in Motomachi.
🚇 Motomachi-Chukagai (Minatomirai Line), exit 5, 4 min on foot
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Show on mapブラフベーカリー · Naka-ku, Motomachi
The bakery that rebooted Yokohama bread, with sourdough, big loaves and a morning queue of locals.
Tip: It comes out warm mid-morning and the good stuff flies. It is the modern counterpart to Uchiki Pan, two blocks away: try both.
🚇 Motomachi-Chukagai (Minatomirai Line), exit 5, 3 min on foot
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Show on mapポンパドウル 元町本店 · Naka-ku, Motomachi
It was born in Motomachi in 1969 and now has shops across Japan, but the original house is still on the same corner.
Tip: This is the head house, not a branch: it has breads you cannot get at the others. The melon one and the curry one are the perennials.
🚇 Motomachi-Chukagai (Minatomirai Line), exit 5, 3 min on foot
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Show on mapコティベーカリー · Naka-ku, Nogecho
A Noge bakery since 1946, inventor of the 'Siberia': sponge cake with a slab of bean yōkan inside.
Tip: Few bakeries in the country still make the Siberia and this is the reference. It sells out by midday: come early.
🚇 Sakuragicho (JR Keihin-Tohoku / Blue Line), South exit, 5 min on foot
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Show on map象の鼻カフェ · Naka-ku, Kaigan-dori
A glass cafe inside the pier park, with elephant-shaped soft serve and tables facing the water.
Tip: It is the only stop with a toilet and coffee between Osanbashi and the Warehouse. The outside tables are free even if you buy nothing.
🚇 Nihon-odori (Minatomirai Line), exit 1, 4 min on foot
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Show on mapブルーボトルコーヒー みなとみらい · Nishi-ku, Minatomirai
Minato Mirai's third-wave anchor, with a picture window onto Grand Mall Park and pour-over made cup by cup.
Tip: It sits on the park's pedestrian corridor, not on the avenue: looking for it from the road, you will not find it.
🚇 Minatomirai (Minatomirai Line), exit 3, 4 min on foot
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Show on mapキャラバンコーヒースタンド · Naka-ku, Motomachi
A Yokohama roaster with a minimal bar in Motomachi: single origin, their own roast and nothing else.
Tip: They sell the day's roasted beans to take away, the souvenir that actually gets used. There are barely a couple of stools.
🚇 Motomachi-Chukagai (Minatomirai Line), exit 5, 5 min on foot
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Show on mapカフェ エリオット アヴェニュー · Naka-ku, Yamashitacho
Specialty coffee made with a siphon and a scale, in a Yamashita shop that Yokohama coffee people name first.
Tip: Ask for the coffee of the day and let them recommend it: the list changes often and that is the point.
🚇 Motomachi-Chukagai (Minatomirai Line), exit 4, 4 min on foot
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Show on map&スウェル · Naka-ku, Shinko
A Yokohama roaster's cafe next to the Warehouse, with a walk-up bar and tables facing the brick park.
Tip: It is the only decent coffee bar between the Warehouse and Hammerhead: the rest of the area is chains.
🚇 Bashamichi (Minatomirai Line), exit 6, 8 min on foot
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Show on mapバイミースタンド · Naka-ku, Motomachi
Toasted sandwiches and coffee in a pale blue tiled shop that became Motomachi's compulsory photo.
Tip: The egg and cheese sandwich is what everyone orders. There are few tables: at lunchtime, take it away.
🚇 Motomachi-Chukagai (Minatomirai Line), exit 5, 3 min on foot
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Show on mapサンドグラス · Naka-ku, Motomachi
A Motomachi tea room with loose leaf, house baking and the calm the shopping street does not have.
Tip: One of the few places in Motomachi where you can sit for an hour without being rushed. Good shelter if it rains.
🚇 Motomachi-Chukagai (Minatomirai Line), exit 5, 4 min on foot
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Show on mapハワイアンカフェ シナモンズ · Naka-ku, Yamashitacho
The Hawaiian guava pancakes that drew queues for years across from Yamashita Park, with a terrace onto the park.
Tip: A heavy breakfast and huge portions: one order feeds two. It opens early, which in Yokohama is rare.
🚇 Motomachi-Chukagai (Minatomirai Line), exit 4, 3 min on foot
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Show on mapオー・ジャルダン・ド・ペリー · Naka-ku, Nihon-odori
The History Archives' cafe, in the courtyard of the old British consulate, next to the tree that watched Perry arrive.
Tip: You get into the courtyard without paying for the museum. The most historic and quietest table downtown, and hardly anyone knows it.
🚇 Nihon-odori (Minatomirai Line), exit 3, 2 min on foot
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Show on mapサモアール · Nishi-ku, Minamisaiwai
A Russian tea room at Yokohama station, with a real samovar, cakes and the longest black tea list around.
Tip: It is inside the station complex, which makes it the best possible wait if you have an hour to kill before your train.
🚇 Yokohama (JR / Keikyu / Sotetsu / Tokyu), West exit, 3 min on foot
Featured in: Tabelog · prensa local de Yokohama
Show on mapいろり · Naka-ku, Motomachi
A Japanese sweets house with matcha ice cream and anmitsu, right where Motomachi meets Chinatown.
Tip: It is the Japanese sweet break in a district that is all Chinese or all European. The summer anmitsu holds up all year.
🚇 Motomachi-Chukagai (Minatomirai Line), exit 3, 3 min on foot
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Show on map元町通り 商店街 · Naka-ku, Motomachi
Six hundred metres of shopping street born to dress the port's foreigners: Fukuzo, Kitamura and Mihama all came out of here.
Tip: The brands founded here — the Kitamura bag, the Mihama shoes, the Fukuzo bear — are not sold in Tokyo. That is what to look for.
🚇 Motomachi-Chukagai (Minatomirai Line), exit 5, 1 min on foot
Featured in: Asociación de Comerciantes de Motomachi · Yokohama Official Visitors' Guide
Show on mapランドマークプラザ · Nishi-ku, Minatomirai
Five floors of mall at the foot of the city's tallest tower, with the atrium dropping onto the 1896 dry dock.
Tip: On the Dockyard Garden level there is a Yokohama silk scarf shop: the real local souvenir, not a fridge magnet.
🚇 Minatomirai (Minatomirai Line), exit 5, 3 min on foot
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Show on mapMARK IS みなとみらい · Nishi-ku, Minatomirai
Minato Mirai's family mall, with a roof garden terrace and a whole floor of things for kids.
Tip: It connects straight to the ticket gates: if it rains, you can go from the train to the art museum without stepping outside.
🚇 Minatomirai (Minatomirai Line), exit 4, 0 min — connected
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Show on mapクイーンズスクエア横浜 · Nishi-ku, Minatomirai
A complex of offices, a concert hall and shops tied together by a staircase-atrium that drops to the train level below.
Tip: The atrium with the staircase is public space: you can stay, sit and listen to whatever is playing above without buying anything.
🚇 Minatomirai (Minatomirai Line), exit 5, 0 min — connected
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Show on map横浜ワールドポーターズ · Naka-ku, Shinko
An imports mall with a cinema, a food court and the terrace looking at the Warehouse and the wheel: the district's cheap option.
Tip: The fifth-floor terrace is free and has one of the best night views of Minato Mirai without paying admission.
🚇 Bashamichi (Minatomirai Line), exit 4, 5 min on foot
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Show on mapマリン アンド ウォーク ヨコハマ · Naka-ku, Shinko
An open-air shopping street between the Warehouse and Hammerhead, with the wings mural everybody photographs.
Tip: The wings mural is in the middle passage and there is a photo queue at weekends. On a weekday morning it is empty.
🚇 Bashamichi (Minatomirai Line), exit 6, 9 min on foot
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Show on mapニュウマン横浜 · Nishi-ku, Minamisaiwai
The mall in the JR tower above Yokohama station, with fashion, cosmetics and restaurants on the upper floors.
Tip: It is literally above the platform. On a stopover in Yokohama with a suitcase, there are lockers here and everything at hand.
🚇 Yokohama (JR / Keikyu / Sotetsu / Tokyu), connected through the ticket gates
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Show on mapそごう横浜店 · Nishi-ku, Takashima
A classic department store by the station, with a food basement worth more than several clothing floors put together.
Tip: The depachika downstairs marks everything down between seven and eight in the evening: the best cheap good dinner in the city.
🚇 Yokohama (JR / Keikyu / Sotetsu / Tokyu), East exit, 2 min on foot
Featured in: Sogo Yokohama oficial
Show on map相鉄ジョイナス · Nishi-ku, Minamisaiwai
A shopping arcade and maze of corridors below street level at the west exit, with a sculpture garden above.
Tip: It is the covered passage linking the west exit with everything. If it rains and you have to move around the station area, use it.
🚇 Yokohama (JR / Keikyu / Sotetsu / Tokyu), West exit, connected
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Show on map横浜ベイクォーター · Kanagawa-ku, Kinkocho
A ship-shaped mall on the Katabira river, with stepped terraces and the Sea Bass pier on the ground floor.
Tip: The boat to Minato Mirai and Yamashita Park leaves from here. Reaching Chinatown by boat from the mall is the trick nobody uses.
🚇 Yokohama (JR / Keikyu / Sotetsu / Tokyu), East exit, 5 min on foot
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Show on mapイセザキ・モール · Naka-ku, Isezakicho
A pedestrian arcade nearly two kilometres long, Yokohama's historic shopping street, today a mix of everything and everyone.
Tip: The farther you get from Kannai, the cheaper and more local it gets. The last stretches have Chinese and Southeast Asian grocers.
🚇 Kannai (JR Keihin-Tohoku / Blue Line), South exit, 2 min on foot
Featured in: Asociación de Comerciantes de Isezakicho
Show on map横浜橋通り商店街 · Minami-ku, Chojamachi
A covered neighbourhood market with fishmongers, greengrocers and Korean stalls: Yokohama with not one concession to tourism.
Tip: It is covered, so it works in the rain. Bring cash: many stalls still take neither card nor QR code.
🚇 Minami-Ota (Blue Line), exit 1, 5 min on foot
Featured in: Asociación del Mercado de Yokohamabashi
Show on map江戸清 中華街本店 · Naka-ku, Yamashitacho
The shop of the buta-man house, with boxes of frozen baozi and sauces to take Chinatown home.
Tip: The frozen ones travel well if your flight is short and you have a fridge where you sleep. If not, buy the sauces, which do not break.
🚇 Motomachi-Chukagai (Minatomirai Line), exit 2, 3 min on foot
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Show on map重慶飯店 売店 · Naka-ku, Yamashitacho
The shop of the 1959 Sichuan restaurant, with the 'number one bun' and the house seasonings in gift boxes.
Tip: The chestnut bun comes in boxes of different sizes and it is the expected gift if you go back to a Japanese office from Yokohama.
🚇 Motomachi-Chukagai (Minatomirai Line), exit 2, 3 min on foot
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Show on mapブックオフ 伊勢佐木町 · Naka-ku, Isezakicho
Books, manga, records and used consoles at second-hand prices, right on the downtown pedestrian arcade.
Tip: The 110 yen section is where the fun is. If you are after old Japanese vinyl, dig through the back of the first floor.
🚇 Kannai (JR Keihin-Tohoku / Blue Line), South exit, 4 min on foot
Featured in: Book Off oficial
Show on mapMEGAドン・キホーテ 元町 · Naka-ku, Yamashitacho
The chaotic Japanese bazaar in giant format, open into the small hours, on the edge of Motomachi and Chinatown.
Tip: It stays open very late and does tax refunds at the till. It is where you buy snacks and pharmacy items at two in the morning.
🚇 Motomachi-Chukagai (Minatomirai Line), exit 6, 6 min on foot
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Show on map有隣堂 横浜駅西口店 · Nishi-ku, Minamisaiwai
Yokohama's great bookshop, founded in this city in 1909, with a whole floor of stationery and art books.
Tip: Yurindo is a chain born in Yokohama, not imported from Tokyo. The stationery section is among the best in Kanagawa.
🚇 Yokohama (JR / Keikyu / Sotetsu / Tokyu), West exit, 3 min on foot
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Show on mapK-ARENA SHOP · Nishi-ku, Minatomirai
The official shop of the city's newest music arena, with merch from the tours that pass through the stage.
Tip: It opens even with no show on, but the good stock comes out on concert days. If you are here for a tour, arrive two hours early.
🚇 Shin-Takashima (Minatomirai Line), exit 2, 5 min on foot
Featured in: K-Arena Yokohama oficial
Show on mapキタムラ元町本店 · Naka-ku, Motomachi
The leather house born in Motomachi in 1882 and THE Yokohama bag brand: it has no shop in central Tokyo.
Tip: The 'K' initial on the buckle is the house mark. There are several Kitamura on the street and not all are the same company: this is the head shop.
🚇 Motomachi-Chukagai (Minatomirai Line), exit 5, 3 min on foot
Featured in: Kitamura oficial · Asociación de Comerciantes de Motomachi
Show on mapミハマ元町本店 · Naka-ku, Motomachi
A Motomachi shoe shop since 1923, famous for the ribbon loafer that became the uniform of Yokohama women.
Tip: The classic model has barely changed in a century and comes on a Japanese last, narrower. Try it on first: the size does not match the European one.
🚇 Motomachi-Chukagai (Minatomirai Line), exit 5, 4 min on foot
Featured in: Mihama oficial · Asociación de Comerciantes de Motomachi
Show on mapフクゾー洋品店 · Naka-ku, Motomachi
A Motomachi shirtmaker since 1948, with the embroidered bear that marks the 'Hama tora' style born on this street.
Tip: Kitamura, Mihama and Fukuzo are the trio that defines the Motomachi look. They are one block apart: do all three in a row.
🚇 Motomachi-Chukagai (Minatomirai Line), exit 5, 4 min on foot
Featured in: Fukuzo oficial · Asociación de Comerciantes de Motomachi
Show on mapまめや · Naka-ku, Nogecho
A roaster and bean shop in Noge, one of the small places that supply the district's kissaten.
Tip: Buying roasted beans here costs less than at any chain and it is the souvenir that really gets used back home.
🚇 Sakuragicho (JR Keihin-Tohoku / Blue Line), South exit, 6 min on foot
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Show on mapシルスマリア · Nishi-ku, Minatomirai
The Kanagawa chocolatier that invented Japanese 'nama chocolate' in 1982: a cream texture that melts in your hand.
Tip: It is fresh chocolate: keep it cold and eat it within days. Ask for dry ice at the till if you will be out all day.
🚇 Minatomirai (Minatomirai Line), exit 3, 4 min on foot
Featured in: Sils Maria oficial · prensa local
Show on mapパパブブレ 馬車道 · Naka-ku, Bashamichi
Hand-made sweets produced in plain sight, pulled and cut at the counter as if it were a show.
Tip: Ask what time they cut the day's batch: it happens live and watching is free. It is right on the way between Bashamichi and Kannai.
🚇 Bashamichi (Minatomirai Line), exit 5, 2 min on foot
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Show on mapカルディコーヒーファーム · Kanagawa-ku, Kinkocho
An imports and coffee shop that hands you a cup at the door: where Japanese people buy food from around the world.
Tip: They hand you a cup of iced coffee on the way in, free and with no purchase. It is where to find unusual spices and sauces to take home.
🚇 Yokohama (JR / Keikyu / Sotetsu / Tokyu), East exit, 6 min on foot
Featured in: Kaldi oficial
Show on mapそごう美術館 · Nishi-ku, Takashima
A museum inside the department store, with shows rotating every few weeks: art without leaving the mall.
Tip: It is on the sixth floor of Sogo and plenty of people do not know it exists. The best indoor hour if you have to kill time in the rain.
🚇 Yokohama (JR / Keikyu / Sotetsu / Tokyu), East exit, 3 min on foot
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