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Yokohama lifestyle

iam group yokohama - What inspires feelings about a city is the people that constitute its community.

You can find 3.Seven million residents (1.6M households) including 75,297 foreigners who live and are employed in Yokohama, Japan’s second largest city.

What many people do not know is the fact that Yokohama can be “firsts”. The initial frozen goodies, the first soap, the first English language newspaper (Japan Herald), the first Japan’s daily newspaper including Japan’s first railway, all started in Yokohama.

The city’s closeness to Tokyo interests families. Actually, Japan’s efficient train service may have you at Yokohama station within just Thirty minutes from Shibuya plus more or fewer once cruising the Shuto expressway on less congested hours.

After the city opened its ports around the globe 155 years back, the people’s acculturation to western ways explains what we should see today, from rich cuisine to beaux arts.

Read more at http://tokyofamilies.net/2014/04/yokohama-lifestyle/