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Yokohama

Yokohama
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About Yokohama

Yokohama is the second-largest city in Japan by population as well as by area, and the country's most populous municipality. It is the capital and most populous city in Kanagawa Prefecture, with a population of 3.7 million in 2023. 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.

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A load of people at the Sakata Seed Incorporation in Yokohama sat around the table and went, 'you know what we should do? We should make broccoli where you can eat the whole thing.'

from No Such Thing As A Giant Otter In H&M, 2023-03-30 at 00:34:49 Β· read transcript

Other times Yokohama came up

  1. In 1900, in the grand exhibition, this, oh, this sounds so good. The Mariorama. It's a me. Define the princess. It was amazing. 700 people got on the platform. Then you would sail from Marseille to Yokohama. A huge long voyage. I don't know how it revolved or moved around you. That's mostly sea, I would think. It's all sea. Oh yeah, sorry, it's a complete sea voyage.

    No Such Thing As An Average Bucket, 2023-02-02 Β· listen

  2. Maybe a lot of that was the same people. A huge claim just on the kind of last hurrah of the panorama, the 1900 grand exhibition. They got they got really, really fancy. Basically, they built and built and built and there were all these that were called Rama shows. There was the Daya Rama, there was the Alparama, the Cosmarama, Europarama, Neorama, Futurama. It's developed.

    464: No Such Thing As An Average Bucket, 2023-02-03 Β· listen

  3. Shame about the massive bloodbath in the living room, but once little Danny got over that, we had a great time. They do have a lot of social outreach missions in the Yakuza. This year, when the coronavirus thing was just beginning, they offered to disinfect the Diamond Princess cruise ship, which have been impounded in Yokohama. They said, yeah, we'll do it. We're, you know, we're gangsters.

    No Such Thing As A Sideways Treadmill, 2020-10-30 Β· listen

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