cities / city portraits
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Yokohama 横 浜


D 213 725
Minato Mirai 21
Japan`s second largest city (3,5 Millionen people) is the center for shipping, trade and foreign contact since the mid-19th century. Formely a little fishing village on the Tôkaidô it was made a treaty port and is today one of the world`s largest ports. 1923 the Great Kantô earthquake destroyed over 90 percent of the city and killed 40,000 people - later world war II bombing destroyed half of the city.

populare districts / views / spots
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