150th Anniversaryy of the Opening
p
g of the Port
City of Yokohama
22 5.
22.
5 2009
Harbor City
Yokohama
Land Area : 434.98 km2
Population : 3.6 million
(second largest after Tokyo)
History
17th century
National
isolation
1859
1858
Closed-door
policy
established
USA
R
Russia
i Netherlands
N th l d
Japan
UK
Amity and
Commerce
Treaty
Quiet village
Closeddoor policy
ends
France
Yokohama Port
opened
Starting Point of Japan’s
Japan s Modernization
beer ((1870))
railwayy (1872)
(
)
ice cream (1869)
water
t supply
l (1887)
Path to Modernized City
Major Devastations (1)Earthquake 1923
Total
Date
Magnitude
Yokohama
1 September 1923
7.9
Deaths
105,000
23,000
Houses destroyed
212,000
80,000
Major Devastations (2)World War II
Air Raid
29. 5. 1945
Injuries
375,000
Deaths
5,830
Houses destroyed
93,378
US occupation
p
((1947))
Reconstruction and Urban Sprawl
1959
3 ((million))
2.12.1985
2
22.4.1968
1
1.10.1942
15.9.1951
1.11.1945
1.9.1923
1960
1970
Kannai Area (old downtown)
1970
urbanized
b i d area
Yokohama Station
railways
1985
Yokohama’s
Yokohama
s problem
population (as of 01/10/2005)
12,000
160
140
8,000
100
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6,000
80
60
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40
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registered
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daytime/nighttime ratio
Minato Mirai 21 Project
Yokohama Station
1980
Mit bi hi D
Mitsubishi
Dockyard
k d ((est.1889)
t 1889)
Shibuya, Tokyo’s major downtown (35minutes)
2006
Pacifico Yokohama
World's largestclass
convention
complex
old downtown
1983
Yokohama Sta
Sta.
63,000
working
ki
Minato Mirai Sta.
“Zo
Zo no hana”
hana (elephant
(elephant’s
s trunk) Pier
birthplace of Yokohama Port
refurbished as “Zo no hana Park”
open to public on 2 June 2009
150th Anniversary Projects
celebratory events
infrastructure projects
Zo no hana refurbishment
convention city
Creative
cit of Art
city
and Culture
Convention City
150th “Happy
Birthday” Project
2008
2009
TICAD IV
2010
establish
a premium
i
convention city
APEC
(A i P ifi Economic
(Asia-Pacific
E
i Cooperation)
C
ti )
TICAD IV
(The 4th Tokyo International Conference
on African Development)
3,000 participants
incl Heads of states and
incl.
governments of 41 African countries
(foreseen) 8,000 participants
from 21 economies
Creative City of Art and Culture
Yokohama Creative City Center
La Machine Parade (2009)
increase the
attractiveness
tt ti
of city center
Zo no hana (elephant’s trunk) Park
Koganecho Bazaar (2008)
before
now
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“TANEMARU”, the spirit of the
camphor tree in the courtyard of the
Yokohama Archives of History,
y
“sets sail” into the next 150 years