Yokohama City

Yokohama ( 横浜市 , Yokohama-shi ? ) ( listen ( help · info ) ), officially the City of Yokohama , is the largest city in Japan by population, and most populous municipality of Japan . It is the capital city of Kanagawa Prefecture . It lies on Tokyo Bay , south of Tokyo , in the Kantō region of the main island of Honshu . It is a major commercial hub of the Greater Tokyo Area . Yokohama's population of 3.7 million makes it Japan's largest incorporated city . [2] 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 , Hakata , Tokyo, and Chiba .