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[[File:Yokohama-dome.jpg|right|thumb|320px|Bronze dome on the roof of the former Yokohama Specie Bank headquarters in Yokohama]]
[[File:Yokohama-dome.jpg|right|thumb|320px|Bronze dome on the roof of the former Yokohama Specie Bank headquarters in Yokohama]]
[[File:Akarenga.jpg|right|thumb|400px|One of the two red brick warehouses (''[[Akarenga soko|Akarenga sôko]]'') at Yokohama Port]]
[[Image:Diplomat-house-yamate.jpg|right|thumb|320px|A former residence of diplomat [[Uchida Sadatsuchi]], re-erected in the 1990s on the 1880s site of the Italian consulate in Yokohama's Yamate Bluff neighborhood.]]
[[File:Chukagai-motomachi.jpg|right|thumb|400px|One of the gates of Yokohama Chinatown, with the European-influenced neighborhood of Motomachi just beyond]]
*''Japanese'': 横浜 ''(Yokohama)''
*''Japanese'': 横浜 ''(Yokohama)''
==Notable Sites==
==Notable Sites==
*[[Akarenga soko|Akarenga sôko]] ("Red Brick Warehouses") - a pair of long red-brick warehouses in the Minato Mirai port area, built in [[1911]]-1913 and used for a time as customs houses for the port. Today, home to shopping and events center.
*[[Akarenga soko|Akarenga sôko]] ("Red Brick Warehouses") - a pair of long red-brick warehouses in the Minato Mirai port area, built in [[1911]]-1913 and used for a time as customs houses for the port. Today, home to shopping and events center.
*Landmark Tower - skyscraper in Minato Mirai; at 273 meters, it was the tallest building in Japan from 1993-2012, until it was surpassed by Abeno Harukas tower in Osaka.
*[[Motomachi (Yokohama)|Motomachi]] and [[Yamate]] - an area retaining a Western/European character, home to many Western schools, churches, and businesses, neighboring Yokohama's Chinatown.
*[[Motomachi (Yokohama)|Motomachi]] and [[Yamate]] - an area retaining a Western/European character, home to many Western schools, churches, and businesses, neighboring Yokohama's Chinatown.
*Negishi Racetrack - the first Western-style horse-racing track in Japan. Today a public park, home to the Equine Museum of Japan.
*[[Sankeien]] - a Japanese garden built by silk magnate [[Hara Tomitaro|Hara Tomitarô]]. Home to many notable historical buildings re-erected there from across Japan.
*[[Sankeien]] - a Japanese garden built by silk magnate [[Hara Tomitaro|Hara Tomitarô]]. Home to many notable historical buildings re-erected there from across Japan.
*[[Yokohama Chinatown]] - the largest Chinatown in Japan.
*[[Yokohama Chinatown]] - the largest Chinatown in Japan.
*[[Yokohama Foreign Cemetery]] - contains graves of numerous Americans, Europeans, and Chinese who lived in Yokohama in the Bakumatsu and Meiji periods, and more recently
*[[Yokohama Foreign Cemetery]] - contains graves of numerous Americans, Europeans, and Chinese who lived in Yokohama in the Bakumatsu and Meiji periods, and more recently
*[[Yokohama Port Opening Memorial Hall]] (横浜市開港記念会館)
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