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Yokohama lifestyle

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

What many people don't know is that Yokohama can be “firsts”. The initial ice cream, the very first soap, the initial English language newspaper (Japan Herald), the first Japan’s daily newspaper including Japan’s first railway, all entered Yokohama.

The city’s closeness to Tokyo attracts families. In fact, Japan’s efficient train service could have you at Yokohama station in less than 30 minutes from Shibuya and much 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/