Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan - virtual tour
Yokohama, officially the City of Yokohama, is the second largest city in Japan by population, and most populous municipality of Japan. It is the capital city of Kanagawa Prefecture. It lies on Tokyo Bay, south of Tokyo, in the Kantō region of the main island of Honshu. It is a major commercial hub of the Greater Tokyo Area.
The historic downtown port district, location of the first foreign settlement, is known as Kannai. Next to the waterfront Yamashita Park is the museum ship, Hikawa Maru, and the Yokohama Marine Tower, the tallest inland lighthouse in the world. Further inland lies Yokohama Chinatown, the largest Chinatown in Japan and one of the largest in the world. Nearby is Yokohama Stadium, the Yokohama Silk Museum, and the Yokohama Doll Museum. The Isezakichō and Noge areas offer many colourful shops and bars that, with their restaurants and stores catering to residents from China, Thailand, South Korea, and other countries, have an increasingly international flavour.
The small but fashionable Motomachi shopping area leads up to Yamate, or The Bluff as it used to be known, a 19th/early 20th century Westerners' settlement overlooking the harbour, scattered with foreigners' mansions. A foreigners' cemetery and the Harbour View Park is in the area. Within the park are a rose garden and the Kanagawa Museum of Modern Literature.
There are various points of interest in the futuristic Minato Mirai 21 harbourside redevelopment. The highlights are the Landmark Tower which was the tallest building in Japan, Queen's Square Yokohama and the Cosmo Clock 21, which was the tallest Ferris wheel in the world when it was built in 1989 and which also doubles as the world's biggest clock.
The Shin-Yokohama district, where the Shinkansen station is located, is some distance away from the harbour area, and features the 17,000 capacity Yokohama Arena, the Shin-Yokohama Raumen Museum and Nissan Stadium, known as the International Stadium Yokohama when it was the setting for the final for the 2002 FIFA World Cup.
The city is home to the Central League baseball team, the Yokohama BayStars, and the soccer teams, Yokohama F. Marinos and Yokohama F.C.
Sankei-en is a traditional Japanese-style garden in Naka Ward. Designed by businessman Tomitaro Hara, it contains seventeen old buildings brought from all over Japan, ten of which have been declared Important National Cultural Properties.
横浜散歩 Yokohama Japan GH5 4K V-LogL
Lumix GH5 V-LogL movie test UHD 4K
Yukinari Saito (撮影：斎藤行成）tmp-tv.com
GH5と14-140mmのレンズ一本で横浜をぶらり散歩での撮影です。
すべて手持ち撮影、以前のGH4より安定感があるせいかブレにくく撮りやすい。また、V-Logでの撮影ですと、あとでの白飛びなど明るさや色味の調整が容易にできるのがいいですね。
Harbor View Park (Minato-no-Mieru Oka Koen)
Opened in 1962 at the former site of the British soldiers' barracks. The lookout and benches facing the ocean offer a full view of Yokohama port. A perfect place for viewing the Yokohama Bay Bridge at night. The forest on the north side was formerly a French military garrison, and is now called the French Mountain area. The land was handed over to Yokohama City in 1971. The same arch as in the central market of Paris stands in front. Also includes the British House, the Yamate 111 Ban-Kan, the Osaragi Jiro Memorial Hall and the Kanagawa Museum of Modern Literature. Also famous for the roses that are in full bloom in the spring and autumn seasons.
Harbor View Park (Minato-no-Mieru Oka Koen) （港の見える丘公園）
Opened in 1962 at the former site of the British soldiers' barracks.
The lookout and benches facing the ocean offer a full view of Yokohama port. A perfect place for viewing the Yokohama Bay Bridge at night. The forest on the north side was formerly a French military garrison, and is now called the French Mountain area.
The land was handed over to Yokohama City in 1971. The same arch as in the central market of Paris stands in front. Also includes the British House, the Yamate 111 Ban-Kan, the Osaragi Jiro Memorial Hall and the Kanagawa Museum of Modern Literature. Also famous for the roses that are in full bloom in the spring and autumn seasons.
LumixGH３movie 夏の横浜山手YOKOHAMA(The tourist resort in Japan)
夏の横浜・山手 Yokohama Yamate
撮影：齋藤行成
Harbor View Park (Minato-no-Mieru Oka Koen)
Opened in 1962 at the former site of the British soldiers' barracks. The lookout and benches facing the ocean offer a full view of Yokohama port. A perfect place for viewing the Yokohama Bay Bridge at night. The forest on the north side was formerly a French military garrison, and is now called the French Mountain area. The land was handed over to Yokohama City in 1971. The same arch as in the central market of Paris stands in front. Also includes the British House, the Yamate 111 Ban-Kan, the Osaragi Jiro Memorial Hall and the Kanagawa Museum of Modern Literature. Also famous for the roses that are in full bloom in the spring and autumn seasons.
港の見える丘公園
横浜山手には大正末期から昭和初期にかけて建てられた洋館の数々が移築復元されている。それらのほとんどは公園の附帯設備として管理され、資料の展示なども行われて観光客を迎えている。それぞれに味わいの異なる洋館のひとつひとつを見てゆくのは楽しく、「洋館巡り」は横浜山手観光の定番コースのひとつと言ってもいいが今年の夏は熱かった。夏の思い出に蝉の音を活かして撮った。
撮影：齋藤行成(camera yukinari saito) Lumix GH3
音楽はフリー楽曲 TAM music factory ／Forever Smile
Perry Memorial Hall, Kurihama, Kanagawa, Japan, A Meuseum About Commodore Perry's Trip to Japan
Perry Memorial Hall, Kurihama, Kanagawa, Japan, A Meuseum About Commodore Perry's Trip to Japan. The initial picture in this film in the Perry Memorial Hall depicts Perry's survey of Edo Bay.
Literature from Yokosuka City Tourist Guide
Survey of Edo Bay
The reason Perry's squadron chose to anchor off of the Uraga Harbor is because
until then, marine charts did not exist beyond that location. Foreign ships had
never ventured farther than Uraga because of an order of by the Edo Shogunate to
repel any foreign ships that trespassed the line stretching from Kannonzaki in
Yokosuka to Futtsu in Chiba Prefecture.
Perry felt that in order to facilitate effective negotiations he must anchor as
close to Edo as possible. The day after their arrival, he began to survey the area
near Uraga using small bateira boats. On the bow of the survey boats were white
flags, and on the stern were U.S. Navy flags. The Uraga Magistrate's Office inquired about the meaning of the white flags and were told that they were a sign of peace. Surveys were conducted every day except Sunday. On July 11, the survey boats proceeded into the waters beyond Kannonzaki and Hashirimizu, a crucial defense point for the Shogunate Government. For Perry as well, the success of the expedition depended on whether this line could be crossed or not. For this reason, Perry named the area around Hatayamazaki Point in HashirimizuPoint Rubicon,in reference to the Rubicon River, the breaking point of Caesar's victory in conquering Rome. He also named the Island of Sarushima, which was visible in the distance, Perry Island. The surveys were conducted up to a point off Haneda, with detailed reports of the depths and
conditions of the seabed.
Shunmyo Masuno: The Art and Philosophy of Zen Garden Design
Shunmyo Masuno, Japan's leading garden designer, is at once Japan's most highly acclaimed landscape architect and an 18th-generation Zen Buddhist priest, presiding over daily ceremonies at the Kenkoji Temple in Yokohama. He is celebrated for his unique ability to blend strikingly contemporary elements with the traditional design vernacular. He has worked in ultramodern urban hotels and some of Japan's most famous classic gardens. In each project, his work as a designer of landscape architecture is inseparable from his Buddhist practice. Each becomes a Zen garden, a special spiritual place where the mind dwells. His work is the subject of Mira Locher’s book, “Zen Gardens: The Complete Work of Shunmyo Masuno”.
Tuesday, June 26, 2018
Brown University
A Story in Layers: Japanese Woodblock Prints
Clair Cuccio discussed how Japanese woodblock prints are created by means of a network of multiple artists in a process that combines individual expertise and collaborative production.
Speaker Biography: Clair Cuccio is an independent scholar of East Asian woodblock prints and print culture.
For transcript and more information, visit
1923 Great Kantō earthquake | Wikipedia audio article
This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
00:01:00 1 Earthquake
00:02:33 1.1 Damage and deaths
00:05:30 1.2 Postquake violence
00:11:02 2 Aftermath
00:14:54 3 Memory
00:16:34 4 In fiction
00:22:23 5 See also
Listening is a more natural way of learning, when compared to reading. Written language only began at around 3200 BC, but spoken language has existed long ago.
Learning by listening is a great way to:
- increases imagination and understanding
- improves your listening skills
- improves your own spoken accent
- learn while on the move
- reduce eye strain
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Speaking Rate: 0.7080760214643101
Voice name: en-AU-Wavenet-A
I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
- Socrates
SUMMARY
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The Great Kantō earthquake (関東大地震, Kantō dai-jishin) struck the Kantō Plain on the Japanese main island of Honshū at 11:58:44 JST (02:58:44 UTC) on Saturday, September 1, 1923. Varied accounts indicate the duration of the earthquake was between four and ten minutes.The earthquake had a magnitude of 7.9 on the moment magnitude scale (Mw ), with its focus deep beneath Izu Ōshima Island in Sagami Bay. The cause was a rupture of part of the convergent boundary where the Philippine Sea Plate is subducting beneath the Okhotsk Plate along the line of the Sagami Trough.
Great Kantō earthquake | Wikipedia audio article
This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
00:00:37 1 Earthquake
00:01:38 1.1 Damage and deaths
00:03:37 1.2 Postquake violence
00:07:04 2 Aftermath
00:09:31 3 Memory
00:10:36 4 In fiction
00:14:15 5 See also
Listening is a more natural way of learning, when compared to reading. Written language only began at around 3200 BC, but spoken language has existed long ago.
Learning by listening is a great way to:
- increases imagination and understanding
- improves your listening skills
- improves your own spoken accent
- learn while on the move
- reduce eye strain
Now learn the vast amount of general knowledge available on Wikipedia through audio (audio article). You could even learn subconsciously by playing the audio while you are sleeping! If you are planning to listen a lot, you could try using a bone conduction headphone, or a standard speaker instead of an earphone.
Listen on Google Assistant through Extra Audio:
Other Wikipedia audio articles at:
Upload your own Wikipedia articles through:
Speaking Rate: 0.9762404700304201
Voice name: en-AU-Wavenet-D
I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
- Socrates
SUMMARY
=======
The Great Kantō earthquake (関東大地震, Kantō dai-jishin) struck the Kantō Plain on the Japanese main island of Honshū at 11:58:44 JST (02:58:44 UTC) on Saturday, September 1, 1923. Varied accounts indicate the duration of the earthquake was between four and ten minutes.The earthquake had a magnitude of 7.9 on the moment magnitude scale (Mw ), with its focus deep beneath Izu Ōshima Island in Sagami Bay. The cause was a rupture of part of the convergent boundary where the Philippine Sea Plate is subducting beneath the Okhotsk Plate along the line of the Sagami Trough.