Yokohama—The Bund

“The Bund is a handsome marine promenade, about half a mile long. It contains the white hongs, or business houses of some of the largest tea and steamship firms, several pretty bungalows fronted by gardens, the Yokohama United Club, and the large and somewhat unprepossessing Grand and Windsor Hotels. Behind, and stretching in a semicircle around the harbour to the northward, lies the flat, unattractive town, a mongrel admixture of vulgar European and primitive Japanese architecture.”

Arthur H. Crow, Highways and Byeways in Japan, (London, 1883) p. 9