This annual festival features International as well as Japanese Jazz acts and is a chance for Yokohama to regularly remind the rest of the nation that this is the Japanese birthplace and its natural home. Held in the Honmoku Shimrin Park you’re advised to bring your picnic mat each August and start bopping.
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