Sakuragi-cho / Minato Mirai District 21桜木町・みなとみらい21地区

An exciting emerging future city that is constantly evolving. One of Yokohama's most nostalgic towns, Sakuragi-cho.

Minato Mirai District 21 is a new town created where Yokohama Expo was held in 1989. Minato Mirai District 21 is the town of future full of modern high-rise buildings. The most famous ones of all are the Yokohama Landmark Tower and Queen's Square Yokohama. The Yokohama Landmark Tower is a 296-meter-high, 70-floor building, which represents the city of Yokohama. You can have a magnificent view from its observatory floor (the 69th) Sky Garden.

Minato Mirai District 21 is also a mega-shopping town, crowded with large shopping malls and amusement spots. The gorgeous night view of Minato Mirai District 21 is a must-see. Yokohama Cosmo World, with one of the world's largest Ferris wheels in the center, and high-rise buildings are illuminated, which gives an effect of the whole area floating in the night sky.

West of JR Sakuragicho Station, you can find Nogeyama-koen Park, which has the Nogeyama Zoo, with about 110 different kinds of animals. Yokohama Nigiwai-za opened in 2002. It is a center specializing in Japanese entertainments such as 'rakugo' (comic monologue), 'manzai' (comic dialogue), and acrobats, and conveying the tradition of Yokohama, in which a number of theaters and playhouses were crowded with their fans, to today's guests.