Japan’s most cosmopolitan city? A mini guide to Yokohama, the country’s original gateway to the world ...Middle East

By Julian Ryall, CNN Yokohama, Japan (CNN) — Of all the cities in Japan, Yokohama is without doubt the most international and cosmopolitan. While many other urban centers have built over their past in the rush to modernize, Yokohama has gone to great lengths to preserve its history as the port that opened the country up to the outside world in the 1850s. Less than 30 miles southwest of Tokyo, it has skyscrapers and retail and nightlife districts, but they exist in harmony with ancient wooden temples, the homes of some of the first foreign traders to settle in Japan and other throwbacks to a colorful – and sometimes turbulent – past. When US Navy Commodore Matthew Perry sailed into t

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