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Yokohama lifestyle

iam group yokohama - What inspires feelings about a city may be the people who 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 have no idea is always that Yokohama can also be “firsts”. The very first frozen goodies, the initial soap, the initial English language newspaper (Japan Herald), the very first Japan’s daily newspaper including Japan’s first railway, all started in Yokohama.

The city’s close proximity to Tokyo interests families. Actually, Japan’s efficient train service may have you at Yokohama station in less than 30 minutes from Shibuya and more or less the same time frame cruising the Shuto expressway on less congested hours.

After the city opened its ports around the globe 155 in years past, 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/