Golden Hour Skyline

The large, 32-story building on the left bathing in the evening sunlight is the newly constructed Yokohama City Hall (2020).

I visit one of the cafes in the building almost every day after work to chill out and decompress before heading home. In addition, there is a small supermarket, a few restaurants, a convenience store, a drug store, a bakery, a barber shop, a post office, art exhibitions, free Wi-Fi, a souvenir shop, and more besides the normal administrative offices on the upper floors.

The promenade on the eastern side of the building has benches nestled between regularly planted greenery of in-season flowers where you can relax and enjoy views of the waterfront skyline or watch small cruise boats slowly passing by as they head out into Tokyo Bay.

Reassuringly, the upper floors of the building are also designated as an evacuation area in the event of a tsunami. Hopefully, I will never need to make use of such facilities.