Yokohama

“Yokohama disappoints the traveler, after the splendor of the Bay. The Bund, or sea-road, with its club-houses, hotels, and residences fronting the water, is not Oriental enough to be picturesque. It is too European to be Japanese, and too Japanese to be European.”




“Both living and traveling are delightfully easy in Japan, and no hardships are encountered in the ports or on the great routes of travel. Yokohama has excellent hotels; the home of the foreign resident may be Queen Anne or Colonial, if he like, and the markets abound in meats, fish, game, fruits and vegetables at very low prices.”

Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore, Jinrikisha Days in Japan, (New York, 1891) pp. 4, 22