Great channel with extremely useful content. I love your itinerary ideas and they have been helpful when planning my trips. Your website is also excellent. My go to resource when planning a trip to Japan.
Yokohama resident is here. Yokohama is effectively a district of Tokyo. Because of this, it is often mentioned in that context within Japan. It's residents are treated in the same category as Tokyo residents. Many Yokohama residents commute to Tokyo, so the size of its downtown is comparable to that of a city of two million people. However, it is significantly larger than other cities in the Tokyo metropolitan area. Yokohama's Chinatown and port area are familiar tourist destinations in the Tokyo metropolitan area. On the surface, Yokohama may look like a big city, but its density is much lower than Tokyo, and there are forests and fields on the outskirts. There is also a beach in the city, so I moved there for the spaciousness.
This is a great video, thank you very much for the precious information. We will be staying in Shinjuku, and I am thinking of visiting either the shin-yokohama ramen museum, or the cup noodles museum. Which one would you recommend "more" ? Is it worth going to Yokohama "only" for one of the 2 museums ?
Ramen and instant ramen are quite different foods, so I would pick which one you're more interested in. If you feel similarly about both, I would recommend the Ramen Museum. I've been to both, but the Ramen Museum offers more atmosphere and photo opportunities (and is quite similar to the now closed Kawasaki Warehouse arcade). Yokohama is very close to Shinjuku, so you can totally go there for just one thing. But the port area and Cosmo World are great fun after dark when everything else is closed, so you might consider spending the evening there as well before you call it day, even if your schedule only allows for one daytime activity in Yokohama.
Top 5 Yokohama no.1-5: just live there. The city's location is the best to visit casually other attractive areas: Tokyo, Kamakura, Shonan, Hakone & Izu. Most parts of Yokohama is nearer to Haneda airport than Shibuya and Shinjuku.
I never liked the expression "you want to experience traditional Japan but you can't go to Kyoto" because thre is a lot of traditional Japan everywhere if you look for it as Chiba, Saitama and the Northern Region (Tohoku).
1:00 There seems to be a misunderstanding, so please allow me to correct it. It compares the whole of Tokyo(東京都) with the city of Yokohama(横浜市), which is the wrong comparison. If Yokohama is to be compared with Tokyo, it should be compared with the 23 wards of Tokyo(東京23区), not the Tokyo Prefecture(東京都). If you are comparing it to Tokyo prefecture, that should be compared to Kanagawa Prefecture, not Yokohama City. However, the video as a whole is amazingly informative and very impressive!!
Don't bother with the Cup Noodles museum. It's a pathetic waste of time. Take a tour of the Kirin brewery instead. It's FREE and they give you 3 full pints at the end of it.
Great channel with extremely useful content. I love your itinerary ideas and they have been helpful when planning my trips.
Your website is also excellent. My go to resource when planning a trip to Japan.
It is incredibly beautiful. Hopefully one day I'll be able to visit.
Yokohama resident is here.
Yokohama is effectively a district of Tokyo.
Because of this, it is often mentioned in that context within Japan.
It's residents are treated in the same category as Tokyo residents.
Many Yokohama residents commute to Tokyo, so the size of its downtown is comparable to that of a city of two million people. However, it is significantly larger than other cities in the Tokyo metropolitan area.
Yokohama's Chinatown and port area are familiar tourist destinations in the Tokyo metropolitan area.
On the surface, Yokohama may look like a big city, but its density is much lower than Tokyo, and there are forests and fields on the outskirts. There is also a beach in the city, so I moved there for the spaciousness.
I would recommend Yamate without a doubt, and it is fairly close to Yamamashita Park. Not only a beautiful place, but it also has so much history!
Moving there this september. This video came handy
Nice! Hope you will have a great time in Yokohama.
I LOVE JAPAN ❤️ ALWAYS. MY FAVORITE PLACE IS YOKOHAMA.
Very underrated city
東京に住む日本人です。たまに横浜には旅行に行きます。いつも同じホテルに滞在します。赤い靴バスで毎日気ままに出掛けます。ホテルは野毛の入口にあり、夜はJazz live観たり、飲み歩いたり、歩いてホテルに帰れる。国際的ホテルも多い。東京からの日帰りはもったいない。最低2泊はしたいね。桜木町駅からの赤い靴バスが便利、乗り放題。
Hello from Bucharest, Romania - a huge underrated city in Europe:)
Great intro. Thanks
This is a great video, thank you very much for the precious information. We will be staying in Shinjuku, and I am thinking of visiting either the shin-yokohama ramen museum, or the cup noodles museum. Which one would you recommend "more" ? Is it worth going to Yokohama "only" for one of the 2 museums ?
Ramen and instant ramen are quite different foods, so I would pick which one you're more interested in. If you feel similarly about both, I would recommend the Ramen Museum. I've been to both, but the Ramen Museum offers more atmosphere and photo opportunities (and is quite similar to the now closed Kawasaki Warehouse arcade).
Yokohama is very close to Shinjuku, so you can totally go there for just one thing. But the port area and Cosmo World are great fun after dark when everything else is closed, so you might consider spending the evening there as well before you call it day, even if your schedule only allows for one daytime activity in Yokohama.
@@pumpkinhill4570 Thanks a lot for your feedback, thats very helpful !
Top 5 Yokohama no.1-5: just live there. The city's location is the best to visit casually other attractive areas: Tokyo, Kamakura, Shonan, Hakone & Izu. Most parts of Yokohama is nearer to Haneda airport than Shibuya and Shinjuku.
pls do more on Northern Japan (Tohoku region)
I like the intro
Pls make a Akita and morioka one
I never liked the expression "you want to experience traditional Japan but you can't go to Kyoto" because thre is a lot of traditional Japan everywhere if you look for it as Chiba, Saitama and the Northern Region (Tohoku).
Especially with how touristy Kyoto has become.
Wow
wht immigration office to bellows yokohama city?
1:00
There seems to be a misunderstanding, so please allow me to correct it. It compares the whole of Tokyo(東京都) with the city of Yokohama(横浜市), which is the wrong comparison.
If Yokohama is to be compared with Tokyo, it should be compared with the 23 wards of Tokyo(東京23区), not the Tokyo Prefecture(東京都).
If you are comparing it to Tokyo prefecture, that should be compared to Kanagawa Prefecture, not Yokohama City.
However, the video as a whole is amazingly informative and very impressive!!
Not going to lie, i know of yokohoma because of Michael Jackson's Bad Tour
Haï
Don't bother with the Cup Noodles museum. It's a pathetic waste of time.
Take a tour of the Kirin brewery instead. It's FREE and they give you 3 full pints at the end of it.
Note that brewery tours are not free anymore. They cost 500 yen.
I had a great time.
BEST VIDEO EVER!
Thank you so much!!