Yokohama

yo-ko-ha'ma, the chief seaport of Japan. It is situated on the Bay of Yedo about seventeen miles southwest of Tokio. Tokio is the city of business. Yokohama is its port. Consuls and foreign merchants reside at Yokohama. It has an excellent harbor in which the merchant vessels of the world, as well as the naval squadrons of nations with which Japan is at peace, are allowed to anchor. Long breakwaters have been built. A railway connects the port with the capital. The population is estimated at a third of a million. The imports, valued in a recent year at $45,000,000, consist chiefly of sugar, machinery, cotton and woolen goods, kerosene, and baled cotton. The exports, valued at $68,000,000, were chiefly cocoons, silks, coffee, tea, fish, paper and paper goods, fans, dolls, etc. Owing to the prevalence of earthquakes, the buildings are, for the most part, low and far from capacious. The natives reside in inexpensive wooden buildings worth a few dollars each. The furniture of a three-room house is worth about $25. Tourists visiting Japan land at Yokohama. See Japan; Tokio