Iekei ramen
A heavy pork-and-soy broth. You specify noodle firmness, oil level and seasoning strength when ordering.
Regional food guide
What to eat in Yokohama
Written by hand, not generated. Dishes, markets, timing and prices for Yokohama.
Yokohama grew out of a treaty port, and a lot of its food is foreign cooking that settled here in a Japanese form. It holds the largest Chinatown in Japan, and dishes that took their shape in this city — thick soy-pork ramen, ketchup spaghetti — are still served as they were.
What people eat here
Start with the local defaults
Shumai
Bite-sized steamed dumplings, sold boxed and long established as train travel food.
Napolitan
Spaghetti fried with ketchup, generally credited to a hotel in this city after the war.
Yokohama Chinatown
Chinese cooking
Cantonese, Shanghai and Sichuan kitchens sit within one district, so you can compare the traditions.
Craft beer
Breweries and taprooms around the harbour, with food built to go with them.
Where the food is
Markets, streets and harbours
Noge
An evening quarter dense with small bars.
Restaurants nearby
Isezakicho and Yoshidamachi
An old district south of Kannai Station: the Isezakicho arcade, revived as a pedestrian street after the war, and Yoshidamachi, a retro dining quarter where a Taisho-era bank vault now serves as a private room. With Noge, the evening quarter of the locals.
Restaurants nearby
Shin-Yokohama
Home to a ramen attraction that gathers regional styles in one building.
Restaurants nearbyWhen to go
- Chinatown is busiest on weekend afternoons and during Lunar New Year events in January and February.
- The Noge bars run from evening into the night.
- Tokyo is about thirty minutes away by train, so a day trip lasting into the evening works.
Worth knowing
- 1For Chinatown buffets, check the time limit and the last order.
- 2With iekei ramen it is common to order rice and soak it in the broth.
- 3Parking around Minato Mirai is expensive at weekends; the train is better.
- 4Some parts of Chinatown discourage eating while walking.
What it costs · Per person, roughly
Ramen runs JPY 900-1,200, a Chinatown course from JPY 3,000, and a shumai bento JPY 900-1,300.
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