Yokohama Chinatown is the largest Chinatown in East Asia, with more than 500 stores ranging from Chinese restaurants to cafes, bars, and Asian sundries all lined up in a mere 500 meter square block.
There are both casual food stalls and long-established authentic Chinese restaurants, many famous and new restaurants, Cantonese, Shanghai, Sichuan, and Beijing cuisine, as well as dim sum dishes prepared by professional chefs called dim sum masters, offering a taste of Chinese cuisine with a rich regional flavor created by the vast climate of China.
The area has an authentic Chinese atmosphere, with 10 traditional Chinese-style gate towers and the “Guantian Temple,” a Chinese shrine of business prosperity, with its orange roof and gaudy decorations.
The area is known as one of the three largest Chinatowns in East Asia, along with Kobe Nankinmachi and Nagasaki Shinchi Chinatown, and boasts a long history as the largest Chinatown in East Asia.
Before 1955, it was called Tangjinmachi or Nankinmachi.
A Chinatown concierge patrols the town, making it a safe and enjoyable sightseeing spot.