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Kanagawa

The first port opened to foreigners, the samurai capital, and the hot springs of Hakone.

Capital
Yokohama
Status
Prefecture
Region
Kantō
Must-see
The Great Buddha of Kamakura
Local specialty
Yokohama shūmai, whitebait

Yokohama was a hamlet when the 1858 treaties made it Japan’s opening port: the city gained the first daily newspaper, the first gas lamp and the largest Chinatown in Asia outside China. Kamakura, further south, was the seat of the first shogunate from 1185 to 1333, and Hakone, backed onto an active volcano, remains the thermal escape of Tokyoites.

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