Aoba-ku, Yokohama — Area Guide & Where to Stay

What are the main landmarks in Aoba-ku?

The ward keeps its oldest record in the hills. The Hanamiyama Site marks a settlement on the southern ridge, and the mounds of 赤田古墳群 rise among the wooded slopes further along. Newer draws sit at Azamino.

The Yokohama Civic Art Gallery Azamino gives the inland hub its exhibition halls, while the Chōkōjibara Site and the buried record of 華蔵台遺跡 mark where earlier settlers worked these slopes long before any ward lines were drawn across Yokohama.

What is the history of Aoba-ku?

People worked these hills long before Yokohama had a port. The old sites tell it. Deposits at the settlement ground of the Hanamiyama Site and the buried record of 華蔵台遺跡 mark generations who lived off the wooded slopes here well before any city spread inland to reach them.

The mounds of 赤田古墳群 and the burial ground gathered at the Chōkōjibara Site fixed the older centre, and Aoba-ku only became a numbered ward once the wider city of Yokohama pushed out across the Tama hills to take it in.

Where is Aoba-ku?

Aoba-ku fills a hilly inland corner of Yokohama, rising across the wooded Tama slopes from the shops of Azamino past the burial ground of the Hanamiyama Site, in a temperate band of the northern hemisphere.