Kanagawa Prefecture, Yokohama City
Exclusively for RWC2019 / Fact Sheet KANAGAWA PREFECTURE, YOKOHAMA CITY
No. Major items Minor items Entry fields
1 Host city name Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture
2 Prefecture name Kanagawa Prefecture
3 Population 9,180,510 (estimated population based on the results of the national census taken in 2015)
The geography of Kanagawa covers the mountains of Tanzawa and Hakone in the northwest, and it faces the 4 Climate plains and the sea in the east and south, and the climate is affected by the black tide of the Pacific Ocean, so it is a temperate on the Pacific Ocean side the climate are much rain."
5 Major industries Electric machinery, oil and coal products, transport machinery, articles of food, general machinery
Today Yokohama is one of the largest cities in Japan, but it was a semi-agricultural and semi-fishing cold village with just under 100 households until the end of the Edo period.
After the end of the national isolation system which lasted more than 200 years until the arrival of the Black Ships, Yokohama was opened in 1859 and became a point of contact with the civilization and culture of foreign countries as an international trade port and it played a role in spreading Western culture across Japan. After the opening of the port, western architecture such as embassies of various countries began to be built and gas lamps and water supplies were put in place, so the changes in appearance were remarkable. Those structures are still left as historic sites and have become tourist attractions.
Yokohama, which has embraced various cultures of each country and developed uniquely, but it has suffered Municipality various hardships such as the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923, the Bombing of Yokohama in World War II, and requisition by the Allied Forces after the war and it overcame various hardships in the end. 6 History Yokohama that celebrated the 160th anniversary of the opening of the port has the second largest population in Japan and it has developed into a city that attracts 34.2 million tourists a year.
Kanagawa Prefecture, to which Yokohama belongs, is famous for its most popular “Kanagawa Okinami Ura (The Great Wave off Kanagawa)” among "Fugaku Sanjurokkei" (Thirty-six Sceneries of Mt. Fuji) by Hokusai KATSUSHIKA. In such Kanagawa Prefecture, there are Kamakura and Hakone, especially as historic and famous tourist spots.
Kamakura had the first full-scale samurai government in Japan about 800 years ago and was once the center of politics as the Kamakura Shogunate. The old capital city of Kamakura, which were surrounded on three side by mountains and one was opened to the sea, is visited by many tourists in search of history, culture, nature and comfort. Hakone also has a history of 1200 years and is Japan's leading tourist spot as hot-spring village in Japan. In the Edo period, it developed into a tourist spot for common people enjoyed hot springs. There are 20 hot springs in Hakone. Spring quality and efficacy vary, and many tourists includes day tripper and guests.
Kanagawa Prefecture: Hakone yosegi zaiku, Kamakurabori(Traditional wood carving), Oyama koma(a spinning 7 Local specialties top), Yokosuka sukajan(a souvenir jacket) Yokohama City: Yokohama scarf, Yokohama yaki, Yokohama Classical Furniture
When an English teacher, E.B. Clark, taught rugby to students at Keio University, Japanese began to play 8 Rugby related information rugby for the first time. Based on this, the rugby club was created (1899), and there is a memorial for the birth of Japanese rugby football on the ground in Kohoku-Ward.
9 Hashtags #myyokohama
10 Street address Kozukuecho 3300, Yokohama Kohoku-ku, Kanagawa, 222-0036
11 Capacity About 72,000 seats About venues 12 Year of completion October 31, 1997
13 Professional teams Yokohama F Marinos ( Football J1 League )