YCVB Releases Video of Yokohama As Convention City

Above, the Yokohama InterContinental The Grand Hotel and Cosmo World. Photo by Armand Vaquer.

The Yokohama Convention and Visitors Bureau has released a new video promoting the city as a desirable venue for conventions, conferences and meetings.

According to Travel Daily News Asia-Pacific:

YOKOHAMA - Yokohama was where Japan opened its port for the first time following the national isolation policy under the Tokugawa Shogun era. The city therefore has a history of serving as the door for foreign cultures and products to enter Japan and spread throughout the country. "Japan's First Port of Call" is a slogan created in 2013 to show Japan and the rest of the world that Yokohama has continued to lead Japan's technologies and businesses from when the port opened 155 years ago to the present and that it is a city with an open disposition as well as flexibility.

The video includes scenes from past conferences held in Yokohama and interviews with participants to express thoroughly the attractiveness of the city and its achievements in hosting large-scale conferences. It introduces not only the state-of-the-art technologies and traditional cultures of Yokohama but also the modern atmosphere of jazz music and cocktails, which are said to have been introduced to Japan via Yokohama.

I have to admit that Yokohama would be a nice place to attend a convention in. I was last in Yokohama in 2005 and skirted near it on the way to Yokosuka during my most recent trip to Japan.

To read the full article and see the video, go here.