Example sentences for: yokohama

How can you use “yokohama” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • In 1872 Japan’s first railway went into service between Yokohama and Tokyo, and the city began to flourish.

  • In the hot, humid summer months it can feel as if the entire population of Tokyo and Yokohama is here, searching in vain for a vacant patch of sand.

  • 5 miles) southwest of Tokyo, Yokohama was an unimportant little fishing village until 1854, when Japan’s long centuries of self-imposed isolation came to an end.

  • The Silk Museum on the second floor, with its collection of kimono and exhibits of the silk-making process, evokes the period when Yokohama was the hub of that industry.

  • The last must-see in Yokohama is Sankei-en, originally the estate of wealthy silk merchant and art connoisseur Hara Tomitaro, who opened his garden to the public in 1906.


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