Zou-no-hana Park

If you need a break while walking along the waterfront, «Elephant trunk park» (Zō no hana pāku) is as good as anywhere to stop – especially since there are benches. The reconstructed pier in the shape of an elephant’s trunk is cool if you think about the history of boats being unloaded there for the newly created town and consider who must have alighted there. It’s also a good place for a view of the skyline with Red Brick Warehouse (Aka renga sōko) in the foreground.
If you were just planning to walk along the water, I highly recommend a detour under the repurposed railroad tracks that is now a pedestrian walkway, and a stroll up Nihonōdori to get a taste of «Yokohama Modern” – Yokohama in the 1920s and 1930s post earthquake (though along the boulevard there are a couple pre-​earthquake buildings – scratch that, now just one, thanks to Ken Corporation. Japanese law and the city don’t seem all that interested in preserving the original ones).