Yokohama has been developed. 

The city was one of five ports opened up to the West in 1859. 

Yokohama is the second largest city in Japan 30 kilometers south of Tokyo. But before opening to the West as a port city, the place was a small coast village. Other than that, nothing much. Soon after opening the port, western merchants or traders and even the chinese came to the port city and settled there. It is no exaggeration to say that it means cultural revolution.There are many things which were first brought to Yokohama, started production and operation in the city and spread all over Japan. For example, those are beer, ice cream, a western-style hotel, a daily newspaper, a horse carriage, rugby football, tennis, bowling and so on. We have too many to list.   

The Sacred Heart Cathedral in the Yamate district in Yokohama is the third one which was built in 1933. The first one was consecrated in 1862 and used until 1906 in a different place in the downtown Yokohama. The second one in the same place as now was collapsed in the Great Kanto Earthquake in 1923. Japanese government finally lifted the Ban on Christianity in 1873 pressured by Western countries.

On the right hand side of the photo from the rooftop of Kanagawa Prefectural Government building, Osanbashi or the International Passenger Terminal where cruise ships depart and arrive is seen. On the left side, the old two Red Brick Warehouses which was each built in 1911 and 1913, are now popular as a cultural event held facility and a commercial one. In the olden days when there was no air transportation, Yokohama near Tokyo was a much more important hub of international trading, and both inbound passengers and outbound ones. The first railway in Japan started between Tokyo and Yokohama in 1872.

That is the old-established restaurant mainly serving Sukiyaki. The first slaughterhouse of beef cattle in Japan started operation in Yokohama in 1865 by requirement of residents from the West. Before Japan started modernization, westernization and industrialization in 1868, Japanese people didn't eat beef and pork.
I took my guests from the US to this restaurant in November, 2019. Shall we eat out at the restaurant ?

The Important Cultural Properties in Yamashita Park and Sankeien Garden
The cargo-passenger ship named Hikawamaru was active as Ocean liner between Yokohama and Seattle before World War Ⅱ. The 94 year old ship is moored at the pier of Yamashita Park as a monument.
That three storied pagoda was relocated from Kyoto by the founder of the garden, Tomitarou Hara. He made his fortune by trading raw silk.
Now and then in China Town in Yokohama
The old photo was taken in around 1920.
 I have my favorite chinese restaurant in the China Town.