For Visitors to Yokohama

Visit Yokohama

For those who come to play, and for those who come to watch.
From the first drink after the final rack to a walk along the harbor the next morning, a guide to the time you spend in Yokohama.

Getting to YokohamaAccess

From Haneda AirportAbout 30min

The Keikyu Line runs direct trains to Yokohama Station. By limousine bus, it is about 30 minutes to YCAT (Yokohama City Air Terminal) at the East Exit of Yokohama Station.

From Narita AirportAbout 90min

The Narita Express runs to Yokohama Station with no change of trains. By limousine bus, it is about 100 minutes to YCAT.

By Shinkansen (Shin-Yokohama Station)About 15min

Take the Yokohama Municipal Subway Blue Line to Kannai Station: about 14 minutes by Rapid, about 17 minutes by Local. Yokohama Station, too, can be reached by subway without changing trains.

From Yokohama Station to Kannai Station is about 5 minutes on the JR Keihin-Tohoku / Negishi Line. All travel times are approximate.

Access (English)交通資訊（繁體中文）

Explore by AreaAreas

Kannai & IsezakichoWhere the names Kannai and Kangai come from, a Kannai being reborn, Isezaki Mall, Akebonocho and Fukutomicho. The district where Yokohama’s pool halls cluster.Explore this area → KotobukichoA town named in hope of good fortune. The history of the lodging-house district that housed the people who carried the postwar port, and the town today.Explore this area → YoshidamachiA town that still bears the name of Yoshida Kanbei. From the iron bridge outside the old checkpoint to a street of fireproof postwar buildings, and Noraneko-dori at night.Explore this area → Noge & Miyakobashi Shopping StreetFrom Japan’s first railway station to the postwar “Japanese town.” Smoke from Whale Alley, the curve of the Miyakobashi arcade, jazz and street performance, and a night of bar hopping.Explore this area → Koganecho & HinodechoA riverside town named from a Chinese classic. Years beneath the railway viaduct, a town its residents took back, art and Ooka River cherry blossoms, and the Yokohama Nichigeki of Mike Hama.Explore this area → Bashamichi & Nihon-odori AvenueA ginkgo-lined avenue running from where the port first opened, and a road once traveled by foreign carriages. Stone buildings and three towers that came through fire, earthquake and requisition, and still work today.Explore this area → Sakuragicho & Minato MiraiFrom Japan’s first railway terminus to a city born on the grounds of a shipyard and a rail yard. Meiji-era stone docks, the Kishamichi Promenade, the Red Brick Warehouse, and the harbor at night.Explore this area → Around Yokohama StationA third station built over a former inlet, a West Exit born from a “desert,” and the Kanagawa-juku slope with temples from the port’s opening. The Ohashi Gym of world champion Naoya Inoue is here too.Explore this area → YamashitachoOnce the foreign settlement. A park laid on the rubble of an earthquake, the Hikawa Maru afloat on the sea, and a hotel that has watched over the port since the early Showa years.Explore this area → Motomachi & ChinatownA shopping street that keeps the name of a village moved when the port opened, and a town of gates built by people who crossed the sea. Visit the temples rebuilt each time they burned.Explore this area → Yamate (The Bluff)The hill the foreigners called “the Bluff.” Western-style houses rebuilt after the earthquake, a cemetery that looks out to sea, and a park above the harbor.Explore this area → Honmoku & Sankeien GardenFrom a fishing village to the Japanese garden Hara Sankei opened to all: historic buildings, four seasons, wabi-sabi, and Honmoku’s postwar years and music.Explore this area →

ThemesThemes

A Year in YokohamaEarly summer celebrating the port’s opening, a river of cherry blossoms, a garden of moon and lotus, Chinatown’s new year. The festivals and seasons the city has kept alive, month by month.Read this page → Yokohama’s Food StoriesGyunabe, ice cream, beer, shumai, Napolitan spaghetti, iekei ramen. The flavors born in this city’s kitchens since the port opened, and handed down.Read this page → Walking YokohamaSeven routes linking the city, from the harbor to the old post-town slope: the port-opening district, a night of small bars, the Ooka River, the shipyard’s memory, garden and bluff, and match day.Read this page → The Yokohama That WasThe first Yokohama Station, a racecourse on the hill, beaches for digging clams, the “chin-chin” trams, an amusement park they called a land of dreams. What the vanished places left the city, and the traces you can still visit.Read this page → Sporting YokohamaHamasuta, the stadium of three finals, the arenas, the rink and the pool, and the ring. Yokohama’s sporting story since the port opened, and where to watch today.Read this page → Billiards in Yokohama: A HistoryFrom the single table in a hotel of the newly opened port, through the settlement clubs and Meiji-era parlours, to the day billiards was recognised as “a kind of sport” — 160 years, traced through the records.Read this page →

Yokohama in BriefA Little History

  • Kannai and Kangai: After the port opened, checkpoints were set up to watch who came and went from the port district. The land inside the checkpoint at Yoshida Bridge became Kannai, “inside the gate”; the land outside became Kangai, “outside the gate.” Both names are still in use today. To Kannai & Isezakicho →
  • Japan’s first railway: Opened in 1872 (Meiji 5) between Shimbashi and Yokohama. The first Yokohama Station is today’s Sakuragicho Station.
  • Yamashita-cho and Chinatown: After the port opened, the area became the Foreign Settlement; in 1899 (Meiji 32) the settlement’s street names were abolished and the district of Yamashita-cho was established. Yokohama Chinatown took shape as Chinese merchants who had come with Western traders began doing business of their own, and today more than 600 shops line its streets. Hotel New Grand, opened in 1927 (Showa 2), is known as the birthplace of seafood doria, spaghetti Napolitan and pudding à la mode.
  • The Bluff (Yamate): The high ground leased to foreign residents, who called it “the Bluff.” The City of Yokohama opens seven Western-style residences on the Bluff to the public, all free of charge. The Foreign General Cemetery traces its beginnings to 1854, to the burial of a sailor from Perry’s squadron.
  • Requisition and recovery: After the war, much of central Yokohama was requisitioned by the Allied occupation forces. Osanbashi Pier was returned in 1952, and the housing area at Yamashita Park in 1960. The harbor you see today came after that long process of return.

Billiards in YokohamaBilliards

Where to play, which tournaments to watch, and the records of the players who compete.

Pool Hall Guide (Japanese)Tournament Calendar (Japanese)Player StatsRules & Etiquette (Japanese)

Where to StayStay

Accommodation can be searched by area on the official website of the Yokohama Convention & Visitors Bureau. Choosing an area close to the tournament venue makes for easier mornings.

Where to Stay (English)住宿（繁體中文）Hotel search (Japanese)

Sources (Japanese-language documents; checked October 1, 2026)

Travel times, prices and opening hours may change. Please check each official website before you go.