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Now a public park and home to a small museum of horseracing. The main grandstand designed in 1929 by American architect Jay H. Morgan is still a prominent landmark. Italian Garden Park; Gaiety Theatre Museum, built on the site of the Gaiety Theatre established in 1866. The Yokohama Cat Museum; The Yokohama Tin Toys Museum
Yokohama developed rapidly as Japan's prominent port city following the end of Japan's relative isolation in the mid-19th century and is today one of its major ports along with Kobe, Osaka, Nagoya, Fukuoka, Tokyo and Chiba. Yokohama is the largest port city and high tech industrial hub in the Greater Tokyo Area and the Kantō region.
Much of Yokohama was destroyed on September 1, 1923, by the Great Kantō earthquake. [1] A Scotsman, Marshall Martin, advisor to Mayor Ariyoshi Chuichi, is credited with persuading the city government to use rubble from the Kannai commercial district to reclaim the former waterfront as a park. [2] Yamashita Park was formally opened on March 15 ...
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Motomachi. Motomachi (元町, Motomachi) is a district in Naka Ward in Yokohama, Japan.It is located immediately west of Yamate and east of Chinatown.It consists of the Motomachi Shopping Street, which is a five-block-long stretch of boutiques and shops.
Across the street from Yokohama Harbor View Park is the main campus of Yokohama International School. The historic Yokohama Foreign General Cemetery is also located nearby and the area is one of Yokohama's most popular tourist destinations .