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Yokohama lifestyle

iam group yokohama - What inspires feelings with regards to a city may be the people who make-up its community.

There are 3.7 million residents (1.6M households) including 75,297 foreigners who live and are employed in Yokohama, Japan’s second largest city.

What lots of people don't know is always that Yokohama can be the city of “firsts”. The very first frozen goodies, the very first soap, the initial English language newspaper (Japan Herald), the first Japan’s daily newspaper including Japan’s first railway, all were only available 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 less the same time frame cruising the Shuto expressway on less congested hours.

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

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