Yokohama Mama – Japan, April 2019 The city’s name literally means “horizontal beach”, but I have never seen a vertical one and don’t know anyone else who has either. That being said, the explanation makes a little more sense…. its current location was once surrounded by a gulf, divided by a sandbar from the open ocean. This sandbar was the original site of Yokohama, and since the sandbar protruded perpendicularly from the land, or horizontally when viewed from the sea, it was called a "horizontal beach". It’s Japan’s second largest city, population-wise, and despite its humble beginnings as a small fishing village during the feudal era, it is now a major port for the country. Located on the shores of Tokyo Bay on the main island of Honshu, it lies just 18 miles south of the
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