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Yokohama

Yokohama

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A large port city near Tokyo in central Japan
  • proper noun
  • /joʊkəˈhɑːmə/
: Yokohama
  • In 1924, my parents were met in Yokohama by my mother's aunt.
  • Yokohama, Japan
  • Yokohama National University
  • left Yokohama

So this was the quarantined cruise ship in Yokohama Port, Japan.

Examples

  • My mom's Japanese and my dad's black, and I'm born and raised in Yokohama, Japan.

  • Origuchi arrived in Yokohama from ethnographic fieldwork in Okinawa a couple of days ago.

    Academic text (2003)

  • There is no snow in Yokohama

    Mad Heidi (2022)

  • We may arrive in Yokohama the day after her.

    Around the World in Eighty Days (1956)

  • Last year, the city of Yokohama, also a C40 city, won the City award.

    Blog text (8)

  • Have you ever been to the ramen museum in Yokohama?

    The Ramen Girl (2008)

  • We are going to Yokohama, which has the world's largest Chinatown.

  • In early July 1956, twenty-eight Japanese families left Yokohama for the Dominican Republic by way of the Panama Canal.

    Academic text (2000)

  • Misako Koike is a professor of American Studies and American Drama at Keio University, Tokyo, and Yokohama.

    Academic text (2000)

  • Have you ever been to the ramen museum in Yokohama?

Surface Forms

Yokohama main

Etymology

Yokohama comes from Japanese parts yoko meaning 'side' and hama meaning 'beach' or 'seashore'. So the name 'side beach' fits a large port city by the sea.