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Yokohama Minato Mirai 21

The Future City by Tokyo Bay

Yokohama Minato Mirai 21 is a coastal urban area on the shores of Tokyo Bay in Yokohama City, which has been under construction since 1983. Yokohama Minato Mirai 21 combines sightseeing and entertainment, modern business, convention, exhibition, history and culture, bringing the concept of a future city to life.

Yokohama Minato Mirai 21 is a coastal metropolitan area on the shores of Tokyo Bay in Yokohama City, and its name is often abbreviated to “MM21”, reflecting the desire for A 21st Century Future City.

The Minato Mirai 21 Urban Renewal Project was launched in 1983 when Mitsubishi Shipyard withdrew from the Port of Yokohama. Most of the land was reclaimed, and after careful planning and deployment, the elements of tourism and entertainment, modern commerce, convention and exhibition, and history and culture were integrated here, and the concept of a future city was introduced here.

View of Yokohama Bay Bridge from afar

Cosmo World amusement park has a 112-meter-tall Giant Ferris wheel that can accommodate 480 people at a time. No matter where you are in Yokohama Minato Mirai 21, you can look around and see the Cosmo Clock 21 Ferris wheel, which has become one of the icons of Yokohama.

The 296-meter-tall Yokohama Landmark Tower, built in 1993, was the tallest skyscraper in Japan and the landmark of the Yokohama Minato Mirai 21 area. Standing on the 69th-floor observation deck, you can see the city beneath you.

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The Yokohama Landmark Tower has now been surpassed by the 300-meter tall Harukas 300 in Osaka Abeno in height. By the way, the top two skyscrapers also have two of Japan’s most famous slums at their feet.

The sailing ship docked at the foot of the Yokohama Landmark Building is called Nippon Maru 日本丸, a training sailing vessel built in 1930, which tells the history of the opening of Yokohama together with the Yokohama Port Museum next door.

Sail Training Ship Nippon Maru

The Legendary Sailing Ship

The Nippon Maru is a Sail Training Ship that has trained 11,500 cadets and sailed a total of 1.83 million kilometers in half a century since her debut in 1930. In 1983, the Sailboat Nippon Maru is permanently docked in Yokohama Dockyard No. 1 for visitors to experience.

Yokohama Port Museum

History of the Port City

The Yokohama Port Museum is located in the Nippon Maru Memorial Park in the Minato Mirai 21 district of Yokohama Port, next to the sailing ship Nippon Maru. The museum introduces the history of the Yokohama Port from its opening to the present, as well as its structure and functions, through the Yokohama Port History and Rediscovering Yokohama Port exhibitions.

The Minato Mirai 21 area brings together a number of shopping complexes such as Queens Square Towers and World Porters, and is represented by the Meiji-era Red Brick Warehouse Commercial District.

The Pacifico Yokohama Convention Center on the shore is the world’s largest convention center, including facilities such as exhibition halls, convention centers, and luxury hotels. Every year, it hosts numerous large-scale international conferences and exhibitions, becoming a window for Minato Mirai 21 to communicate with the world. The Rinkoh Park next to the venue offers a panoramic view of Yokohama Port.