Articles of category "Yokohama"

Kanto region is a geographical area on Honshu, the main and the largest island of Japan and includes seven prefectures, surrounding Tokyo: Gunma, Tochigi, Ibaraki, Saitama, Tokyo, Chiba and Kanagawa. The region is situated on the Kanto plain, but the plain itself makes a little more than forty percent of the region. Today, Kanto region is the most developed, industrialized and urbanized part of Japan.

Hundred years ago there was a tiny fishing village, consisting of hundred houses and lying in twenty nine kilometers (eighteen miles) of Tokyo. In the middle of the 19th century, the Japanese government selected this small fishing village to be opened for the international trade and it has gradually transformed into one of the most important Japanese gateways. Yokohama subsequently grew into a large and multicultural community, first assimilating Western goods and services and building the largest futuristic district in Japan.