A Mitsubishi shipyard until 1983: today, 186 hectares and 140,000 people who work there.
Until 1983 the Mitsubishi shipyard and the railway freight yard stood here; 8 November of that year saw the launch of the plan that remade 186 hectares facing the port, seventy-six of them reclaimed from the sea. Today more than 140,000 people work here in about two thousand companies, and visitors exceed eighty million a year.
The skyscraper district on the port of Yokohama.
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The skyline that closes the twelfth episode. The exact spot is the Cosmo Clock 21 Ferris wheel, 180 m from here, which the sources cite by name; the same sequence shows the elevated promenade of Yamashita Rinkō, which links Chinatown to Ōsanbashi Pier.
Sources: libert.co.jp · seichi-shioricho.com · ajin-movie.com · city.yokohama.lg.jp · ja.wikipedia.org · yokohama-landmark.jp
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