place

Isezakichō

Kanagawa geography stubsNaka-ku, YokohamaNeighborhoods of YokohamaShopping districts and streets in Japan
Yokohama Isezaki cho01s3200
Yokohama Isezaki cho01s3200

Isezakichō (伊勢佐木町) is a district of Naka Ward in Yokohama, Japan, consisting mainly of the Isezakichō Shopping Street (伊勢佐木町商店街, Isezakichō shōtengai). The shopping street is 1.2 km long, running from Isezakicho 1-chōme (-1丁目, -icchōme) in the northeast, to Isezakicho 7-chōme (-7丁目, -nanachōme) in the southwest. Isezaki Mall is a special designation given to the 1-chōme (1丁目, icchōme) and 2-chōme (2丁目, nichōme) portions only, which is a car-free zone. The largest shops and businesses are in the Isezaki Mall area in the northeast end, closer to Kannai Station. As you walk along the Isezakicho Shopping Street towards 7-chōme in the southwest end, the shops become gradually smaller and the pedestrian traffic tapers off. On the other end, walking past the northeast end of Isezakicho, across towards Kannai Station, the street continues into the Bashamichi Street. Until the 1960s, Isezakicho was the only large shopping area in Yokohama catering to local residents. But that was before Motomachi and the Yokohama Station area became more popular. Motomachi had previously catered mainly to foreign residents, while the Yokohama Station developed into a large shopping area only in the 1970s. Today, Isezakicho continues to be one of the major shopping areas of Yokohama. Isezakichō is featured in the video game Yakuza: Like a Dragon and in Lost Judgment as Isezaki Ijincho.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article Isezakichō (License: CC BY-SA 3.0, Authors, Images).

Isezakichō
Isezaki Mall, Yokohama Naka Ward

Geographical coordinates (GPS) Address Nearby Places
placeShow on map

Wikipedia: IsezakichōContinue reading on Wikipedia

Geographical coordinates (GPS)

Latitude Longitude
N 35.443611111111 ° E 139.63138888889 °
placeShow on map

Address

Isezaki Mall
231-0017 Yokohama, Naka Ward
Japan
mapOpen on Google Maps

Yokohama Isezaki cho01s3200
Yokohama Isezaki cho01s3200
Share experience

Nearby Places

Yokohama
Yokohama

Yokohama (Japanese: 横浜, pronounced [jokohama] ) is the second-largest city in Japan by population and the most populous municipality of Japan. It is the capital city and the most populous city in Kanagawa Prefecture, with a 2020 population of 3.8 million. It lies on Tokyo Bay, south of Tokyo, in the Kantō region of the main island of Honshu. Yokohama is also the major economic, cultural, and commercial hub of the Greater Tokyo Area along the Keihin Industrial Zone. Yokohama was one of the cities to open for trade with the West following the 1859 end of the policy of seclusion and has since been known as a cosmopolitan port city, after Kobe opened in 1853. Yokohama is the home of many Japan's firsts in the Meiji period, including the first foreign trading port and Chinatown (1859), European-style sport venues (1860s), English-language newspaper (1861), confectionery and beer manufacturing (1865), daily newspaper (1870), gas-powered street lamps (1870s), railway station (1872), and power plant (1882). Yokohama developed rapidly as Japan's prominent port city following the end of Japan's relative isolation in the mid-19th century and is today one of its major ports along with Kobe, Osaka, Nagoya, Fukuoka, Tokyo and Chiba. Yokohama is the largest port city and high tech industrial hub in the Greater Tokyo Area and the Kantō region. The city proper is headquarters to companies such as Isuzu, Nissan, JVCKenwood, Keikyu, Koei Tecmo, Sotetsu, Salesforce Japan and Bank of Yokohama. Famous landmarks in Yokohama include Minato Mirai 21, Nippon Maru Memorial Park, Yokohama Chinatown, Motomachi Shopping Street, Yokohama Marine Tower, Yamashita Park, and Ōsanbashi Pier.