Yokohama Chinatown

Clean, bright lights, lots of food!!! I came to eat so wish me luck. Then I’ll burn it off walking around Chinatown: btw… Cleaner than Hawaii’s Chinatown with no homeless people.

A nice place to walk around and find some good food and do a little shopping. Very easy to get to and makes for a nice side trip outside Tokyo. Like everything it Japan, it is pretty clean and well lit. Check shop times as I noticed a lot of places seem to closing up around early, around 9ish, as we headed back to the train station.

We walked a little in what is suppose to be the biggest Chinatown in the world. There are a lot of restaurants and shop options. I was hoping for more street food but it was mostly steamed buns and ice cream. We stopped at an ice cream shop and got white peach ice cream which had bits of peach in it that was pretty good. After walking a few streets which seemed very similar to one another, we made our way to the waterfront area which is an easy 15 minute walk.

Dank ass neighborhood with a bunch of yummy options. Love all the hustle in the atmosphere and try some Japanese fusion Chinese food while you’re here!

The cleanest and one of the biggest in the world, So many people with so many Restaurants and shops to choose from, one of the must see destination in Yokohama, Japan.

Ahh. welcome to Yokohama Chinatown! In Japanese, you say it Yokohama Chuukagai (横浜中華街). It’s a lot different than Chinatown here in Las Vegas! ;) There are a lot of street vendors and shops that sell all kinds of delicious snacks here and of course, lots of Chinese foods. Pretty cool to visit if you’ve never been to Yokohama before. It doesn’t take too much time to see everything, so if you want to do some other things, you can catch the Yokohama DeNA Baystars at the nearby Yokohama stadium, or go shopping at the nice Motomachi street. Also during October, there is the Octoberfest around the Red Brick Warehouse that is also nearby. And during winter months, you can go outdoor ice skating.
If this is your first time trying to get to Chinatown, once you get to Yokohama station, take the Minato Mirai train to Chuukagai station. It’s like three stops over.

Well I was very happy to visit Yokohama Chinatown because I got see my friends and enjoy some delicious food. I will be back to Japan I’m soon and I’m sorry this place will be one of my stops. See you soon Isuzu!

It was my third day in Japan and my friend had planned a day trip to Yokohama to explore Chinatown and nearby attractions. Out of all the days we spent in Japan, that Sunday was beautiful and we experienced some warmth and sunlight! The streets were busy and full of families, given it was Sunday and the weather was spectacular.
Upon arrival, we picked up some sweet red bean buns for snacks and noticed that the entrance gates were under construction. Such a bummer, but we were able to take some nice pictures in front of a temple and the entrance to the popular alleyway packed with restaurants and shops.
We had lunch at a two-​story Taiwanese restaurant through some random alley. Wish I could offer more information, but we were won over by their incredible lunch specials. Appetizer and dessert included for less than 1000 yen?! It was the best offer we saw after walking and browsing through several lunch deals.
After lunch, we continued exploring the streets and then hopped over to Red Brick Warehouse for some more sightseeing and shopping.
Chinatown was definitely interesting and there were plenty of street vendors — dumplings, roasted chestnuts, boba and other desserts. It’s just a nice place to hang out and shop.

Ist sehenswert, aber nix besonderes. 90% nur Restaurants. Wenn man chinesisches Essen mag findet man auf jeden Fall etwas.

I came here with my daughter on a Thursday afternoon. It wasn’t necessarily on my places to visit list, but we decided to come here since we were already in the area (went to the Shin-​Yokohama Raumen Museum, but still had to take the subway and Minato Mirai lines from Shin-​Yokohama station to get here).
This place was HUGE. It’s supposedly the biggest in Japan as well as in Asia. There were several temples spread across, and we went inside one since my daughter was curious. Just beware that they charge for prayers, at least the one that we went to did (the woman there asked us if we wanted to do the incense and written oracle but didn’t tell us that there was a charge until after we did it…1,000y total for the both of us).
Although it was big, it mainly consisted of restaurants, small eateries/​cafes, steamed bun shops, and souvenir shops, so everything started to look the same after a while. We did buy some souvenirs and steamed buns (yum), and visited the Baby Star Land inside the Yokohama Hakurankan. I think my daughter enjoyed Baby Star Land the most. I noticed that it got considerably crowded towards dinner time so I guess it’s more popular as a place to eat rather than shop.

Une ville dans une ville, je me souviens dans certains films /​animé, on parle du Chinatown de Yokohama comme étant une population totalement différente. A la différence que là, les chinois et les japonais peuvent pas se sentir, cette confrontation constante a forcé les chinois à redoublé d’ingéniosité pour marquer la différence.
Ce Chinatown, contrairement à New York n’est pas simplement une séparation de communauté, on voit l’architecture différente, on se croirait être à Honkong ou dans les tréfonds de Pékin!
C’est à faire pour découvrir une facetté ambivalente de la ville!

Yokohama Chinatown, a.k.a. Yokohama Chūkagai, is cheesy and overrated and over-​the-​top all around. That’s what makes it Chūkagai. Don’t come expecting anything like Chinatown in Toronto or San Francisco or Sydney and you (perhaps) won’t be disappointed. Do be careful about what restaurant (s) you choose and avoid the chestnut vendors since their M.O. is pushing you into buying overpriced, out-​of-​season chestnuts. (But be nice! They’re people too.) But otherwise, just enjoy the gaudiness of it all.
PS It’s better at night.
PPS If you can time a visit for when there’s a festival (parade!) or at least lion dancing going on, definitely do.

Stopped by Chinatown for lunch before the Baystars game. I’ve been to Chinatown in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, DC and Honolulu. This is by far the cleanest and safest.
Ideal location to eat before or after the game. Just a few blocks away from Yokohama Stadium. Lots of food options available. Street food, dine in or buffet. We ended up in China Square eating at Travesso Grill Brazilian Restaurant. Will review separately. I also had room for 1 steamed bun.
Looking forward to visiting here again.

Apparently one of the biggest Chinatowns in the world, but it might as well be a couple of square meters on repeat. Everything here is about food. And did I mention food? There’s litterary one restaurant in every doorway and they all suffer from something that is rather serious: high prices. Coming from Tokyo for a couple of hours this is somewhat disappointing. What went wrong? Why does a meal here that costs under 1000 jpn cost more than the double compared to Tokyo? Beats me.
It’s a tourist trap that long ago lost its chinatown charm. And it’s sad.

The largest Chinatown in Japan!
I had a great time here wandering around with my friends. There is a lot to see and EAT! We found some great soup dumplings for a decent price and there are snacks all around to fill your tummy. There are also lots of stores if you want to buy some random souvenirs, but it’s more fun to just wander around and take pictures of the area.

I was excited to come here upon learning it was the largest Chinatown in Japan. To be honest, I was a little underwhelmed. It’s fairly similar to any other Chinatown that I’ve been to (excluding DC, which has a very sad Chinatown). The restaurants are either very high end, or incredibly low end.
I don’t remember what restaurant we went into, but it was a lot more expensive than I thought it’d be, but maybe Chinese food in Japan is just a lot more expensive than in the US.

Beware of the restaurants that serves set meals. If they know you’re a gaijin, this Chinese will rip you off. They’ll charged you more. I will never be back to this Chinatown.
Never.

A large Chinatown and for a Chinatown cleaner than any others I’ve visited in any other place (Honolulu, San Francisco, LA, etc…) lots of interesting shops and restaurants, a good place to visit if you have the time.

Un vrai dédale. En entrant un pas, c’est déjà le début d’une aventage.
La première fois que j’ai visité avec des amis il y a un an, ce que je pouvais voir sous les yeux était des maisons et des maisons qui sont tout rouge avec des lampes chinoises, les toit en multicolore avec des lumières tout vives comme vert clair, bleu, et jaune et d’orée (oui en fait, c’était le soir).
On a essayé de trouver un resto qui n’était pas cher, mais en fait il y en avait tellement en plus comme de petites rues se croisent à n’inporte quel endroit, on a commencé facilement d’être perdu.
De nos gauches à droites, il y avait pleins de monde qui passent, et l’ambiance était comme si on étiat vraiment dans un autre pays.
Ça m’a fait rappeller du monde du «Voyage de Chihiro».
Je vous conseille d’apporter un plan si vous né pouvez pas gaspiller le temps, mais sinon c’est une bonne expérience d’être perdu dans un «another world» chinois.

This is the biggest chinatown near Tokyo.
There are many delicious chinese restaurants.
So you may not able to decide which restaurant to choose.
It often happens here.
So if you don’t have much time, you had better check 2 or 3 restaurants.
Famous restaurants are usually full of people.
So some choices are important.
Also there are many expensive restaurants, so it is important to check some restaurants in advance.
As there are too many shops, you can’t enjoy this completely in one day.
So just enjoy yourself without any sense of hesitation!!!