Kanagawa · Updated: 2026-09-26
Around Motomachi-Chukagai Station (元町・中華街駅) there are 17 walking spots, from Chinatown restaurants and dim sum specialists to a museum ship and jazz bars. Most sit 3 to 11 minutes on foot from Motomachi-Chukagai Station, or 3 to 7 minutes from Ishikawacho Station (石川町駅) and Nihon-odori Station (日本大通り駅), so the sightseeing side by Yamashita Park and the alleys of Chinatown fit into one day. Museums close on Mondays while several restaurants close on Wednesdays or Thursdays, so pick your day of the week first.
This guide covers 17 walking spots; 17 of them are an average 6-minute walk from the nearest station (3–11 min).
Counted from zorozoro listings when this page was generated. Walking minutes are estimates: straight-line distance to the nearest station × 1.3, at 80 m per minute.
A natural order: start at Yokohama Doll Museum, 3 minutes from the station, see NYK Hikawa Maru (last entry 16:30) and Hotel New Grand by Yamashita Park, then walk into Chinatown for a meal and something sweet, and finish at the live house and bars after dark.
Yokohama Doll Museum is a 3-minute walk from Motomachi-Chukagai Station. Opened with a donated private collection, it holds over 10,000 dolls from more than 100 countries and presents world cultures through them. Open 09:30–17:00, closed on Mondays (the next weekday if Monday is a holiday) and over the New Year period.
NYK Hikawa Maru is moored in Yamashita Park, the only surviving large pre-war passenger-cargo liner. Inside you can see the rooms where figures such as Chaplin stayed. It is 11 minutes on foot from the station, open 10:00–17:00 with last entry at 16:30, closed on Mondays.
Hotel New Grand is a classic hotel of 230 rooms that opened in 1927, facing Yamashita Park. It is a 5-minute walk from the station and makes a natural turning point on the park walk.
SEA GUARDIAN II is the main bar on the first floor of Hotel New Grand, where you can sit with the evening sea breeze. Open 17:00–23:00, no closing days. Tank tops, beach sandals and zori are not allowed.
Manchinro Honten is a long-standing Chinatown restaurant with 130 years of history. You can eat to live erhu and Chinese pipa music, and the colourful cold noodles come with sesame and soy sauce dressings. It is 7 minutes on foot from Nihon-odori Station, open 11:00–22:00, closed on Mondays, with continuous service on weekends and holidays.
Keika Hanten is described as serving wontons in a class of their own. The bowl is said to leave you wanting a brisk lap around Hama Stadium afterwards. A 7-minute walk from Nihon-odori Station, open 11:30–20:00, closed on Wednesdays except holidays.
Banraitei is a neighbourhood Chinese diner founded in 1956 in a back alley of Chinatown, run by a noodle maker dating to the Taisho era and moved here in 2001. Its Shanghai fried noodles use thick noodles. A 6-minute walk from Motomachi-Chukagai Station, open 11:30–21:00, closed on Wednesdays.
Junkaikaku Honkan is an established Chinatown restaurant with separate chefs for appetizers, dim sum and Cantonese dishes. It is 7 minutes on foot from the station and open 10:30–22:00 with no closing days, so lunch or dinner both work.
Shimon Shurou is a Cantonese restaurant suited to larger groups sharing big plates. Dishes include drunken shrimp blanched in broth and shrimp fried with mango. A 7-minute walk from Ishikawacho Station, open 11:30–21:30, no closing days.
Jukei Charo Yokohama Chinatown Main Store is a dim sum specialist known as an easy introduction to casual yum cha. It is 6 minutes on foot from the station, open 11:00–21:00 Monday to Thursday and Sunday, 11:00–21:50 on Friday and Saturday, with no closing days.
Koumen is a long-running Chinatown shop known for egg tarts wrapped in light pastry, with coconut tarts as another regular. A 6-minute walk from Motomachi-Chukagai Station, open 10:00–18:00, closed on Thursdays.
MIXUE Yokohama Chinatown is the Kanteibyo-dori branch of a Chinese sweets chain, serving ice cream plus brown sugar boba milk tea and lemon tea. A 6-minute walk from the station, open 11:00–21:00 with no closing days — handy for something to carry as you walk.
Yokihi Cafe Chinois is a Chinatown cafe and boutique with more than half a century of history since opening on Kitamon-dori; it moved here 16 years ago and started the cafe upstairs. The boutique is on the first floor, with the Yokihi dessert and a mooncake plate set on the second. A 6-minute walk from Ishikawacho Station, open 12:00–18:00, closed on Tuesdays and Wednesdays.
F.A.D YOKOHAMA is a Chinatown live house reaching its 30th anniversary in 2026. Check the schedule on its site (www.fad-music.com); phone lines are open 14:00–23:00. It is 6 minutes on foot from Ishikawacho Station.
MINTON HOUSE is a jazz bar that opened in 1967, still filled by the warm sound of its Altec 605B speakers. A 3-minute walk from Ishikawacho Station, open 17:05–24:00, closed only for the first three days of the New Year.
Bar Norge takes its image from the Norwegian summer retreat and aquavit, a quiet Nordic room reached by a 3-minute walk from Junkaikaku. It is 5 minutes on foot from Ishikawacho Station, open 17:00–00:30 Monday to Thursday and Sunday, 17:00–02:00 on Friday and Saturday, no closing days.
Bar Three Martini is the bar to drop into after Shanghai fried noodles at Banraitei — brace yourself for the martinis. A 7-minute walk from Motomachi-Chukagai Station, open 15:00–23:00 Wednesday to Friday and 14:00–23:00 on weekends, closed on Mondays and Tuesdays.
Mondays close Yokohama Doll Museum, NYK Hikawa Maru and Manchinro Honten; Wednesdays close Banraitei and Keika Hanten; Thursdays close Koumen. If the ship and museum are on your list, build the first half around Hikawa Maru's 16:30 last entry, then move into the alleys and bars once it gets dark.