Things to Do in Yokohama in November

Q: Is Yokohama safe for solo travellers in November?

Yokohama scores 8.3/10 for solo-traveler safety (see /research/solo-safety/), and what's most likely to catch you out this month is the cold on a late harbor walk, so bring a warm layer and check last-train times from Noge after a night out.

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The one thing to know about Yokohama in November is that the ginkgo trees turn. From about the third week of the month, the ginkgo avenue along Yamashita Koen-dori and the rows on Nihon Odori go a hard, buttery yellow, and the fallen nuts leave a sharp, slightly cheesy smell that locals know well. The first half of November is mostly about clear air: the average high is 17.3°C (63°F), the average low is 9.5°C (49°F), and on the cleaner mornings Mount Fuji shows up on the western horizon from Minato Mirai.

This is the month after typhoon season and before the dry cold of January. On a still afternoon, Osanbashi Pier is comfortable in a light jacket, with gulls overhead and the diesel hum of harbor boats. The sun sets around 16:30, though, and the sea wind off Tokyo Bay has a bite after dark, so you'll want a warm layer for the Chinatown lanes at 19:00, where steam rises off the nikuman carts.

That said, November isn't quiet everywhere. Two national holidays and the Shichi-Go-San shrine visits bring Tokyo day-trippers down the Toyoko Line in large numbers, and from late in the month the Christmas lights draw evening crowds to Minato Mirai 21. Weekdays in the second week tend to be the sweet spot, with good light, thin crowds, and hotel rates that haven't yet climbed for the December holidays.

Why visit in November

Rainfall drops to less than half of September's total, so a four-day trip usually loses at most one afternoon to rain.
Ginkgo and maple colour peaks in late November at Sankei-en, Yamashita Park and Shomyo-ji in Kanazawa ward, a 40-minute train ride south of Kannai.
Shanghai hairy crab season runs in Chinatown (Yokohama Chukagai), and the roasted-chestnut stalls on Chukagai-dori are going all day.
Clear autumn air gives the best Mount Fuji visibility of any month so far in the year, from the Sky Garden on the 69th floor of Yokohama Landmark Tower and from Harbor View Park in Yamate.
The Christmas season opens in the last third of the month, with the market at Yokohama Red Brick Warehouse and illuminations along the Kishamichi promenade.

Worth knowing

Daylight is short, and waterfront walks after 17:00 are chilly because of the bay wind at Osanbashi and Yamashita Park.
Holiday weekends pack Chinatown and Minato Mirai with Tokyo day-trippers, and lunch queues at the popular Chukagai restaurants can run 45 minutes.
Professional baseball has finished, so there are no DeNA BayStars home games at Yokohama Stadium (opened 1977) until spring.
Foliage timing can shift by a week or more from year to year, so an early-November trip may find green trees where you expected gold.

Best for

Think twice if

Weather measured 17° / 10°C 81mm rain · 6 rainy days · 71% humidity rains perceptibly ~1.1h/day · 90% of mornings dry

Crowds medium

Pack Pack layers. A long-sleeve shirt or thin merino top handles the daytime well, but add a light down jacket or wool coat for evenings, a scarf for the harbor wind, and a compact umbrella for the occasional drizzly day. Jeans or chinos work well, and shorts are too cold after dark.

November runs dry, bright and mild through the day, then cools quickly after the sun drops. The month averages about 81mm (3.2 inches) of rain over roughly 6 rainy days, usually as steady grey drizzle rather than downpours, and humidity sits around 71%. Mornings in the second half of the month can feel damp and cold near the water, and a light frost on the lawns at Sankei-en isn't unheard of by month's end. Afternoons in the sun at Yamashita Park still feel like early autumn, and the gap between shade and sun is noticeable.

Year-round climate

Averages from the last 5 years.

Monthly climate averages for Yokohama
Month	Avg high (°C)	Avg low (°C)	Rainfall (mm)
Jan	10	1	38
Feb	11	2	63
Mar	15	6	155
Apr	19	11	172
May	22	15	205
Jun	26	19	185
Jul	31	24	159
Aug	32	25	143
Sep	28	22	196
Oct	22	15	147
Nov	17	10	81
Dec	12	4	54

Holidays and festivals in November

Public holidays

Culture Day(文化の日)3 November 2026
Labour Thanksgiving Day(勤労感謝の日)23 November 2026

Best things to do in November

Autumn leaves and chrysanthemums at Sankei-en

garden

Walk the pond circuit at Sankei-en in Honmoku, a garden founded in 1906 by silk merchant Hara Sankei, past historic buildings brought here from Kyoto and Kamakura. The three-storey pagoda from Tomyo-ji stands on the hill above the maples.

The garden's maples and ginkgo usually colour from late November into early December, while the annual chrysanthemum exhibition runs through much of the month.

Booking tipNo booking needed. Arrive at opening on a weekday and the pond reflections are yours without tour groups.

Fuji-spotting from the Sky Garden

viewpoint

The observation deck on the 69th floor of Yokohama Landmark Tower in Minato Mirai 21 looks west across the Tanzawa mountains toward Mount Fuji and east over Tokyo Bay.

November's drier, cooler air brings some of the clearest visibility of the year, and sunset comes early enough to catch Fuji in silhouette before dinner.

Booking tipGo 30 minutes before sunset on a clear, windy day. Wind after a cold front tends to scrub the haze.

Ginkgo walk from Yamashita Park to Yamate

walk

Start under the ginkgo avenue beside Yamashita Park, pass the Hikawa Maru ocean liner, climb to Harbor View Park, and walk the Western-style houses of the Yamate Bluff.

The ginkgo avenue turns gold from around the third week of November, and the fallen leaves carpet the pavement for about 10 days before the city sweeps them.

Booking tipThe Yamate Western houses are free to enter but close around 17:00, so if you're starting after lunch, do the Bluff section first.

Kamakura foliage day trip

day trip

Take the JR Yokosuka Line about 25 minutes to Kita-Kamakura for Engaku-ji, then either walk the Tenen hiking course or head to Hase-dera for its maple-lined paths.

Kamakura's maples usually peak from late November into early December, and the cool air makes the 2-hour ridge hike comfortable rather than sweaty.

Booking tipLeave Yokohama before 08:30 on weekends, because the narrow lanes near Hase-dera jam up by 11:00.

Shomyo-ji and Kanagawa Prefectural Kanazawa Bunko

culture

We'd make time for the Kamakura-era temple garden at Shomyo-ji in Kanazawa ward, with its red arched bridge over the pond, and the museum next door on the site of a library founded in 1275.

The pond's maples frame the bridge in late November, and the museum tends to schedule a major autumn exhibition around this time.

Booking tipCheck the museum's exhibition calendar before you go: it closes on Mondays and between exhibitions.

Christmas Market at Yokohama Red Brick Warehouse

seasonal market

A German-style market with wooden huts, glühwein, sausages and a large tree between the two 1910s brick warehouses in Shinko.

The market typically opens in the last week of November, and the days before December arrives are the least crowded of the season.

Booking tipWeekend evenings sometimes require a timed entry ticket, so check the Red Brick Warehouse site about a week ahead.

What to eat in November

In season: fruit

Kanagawa mikan
Mandarins from Odawara and Yugawara in western Kanagawa reach peak sweetness in November, piled in supermarket bins and sold by the bag at farm stands on the way to Kamakura.

On menus now

Oden with Miura daikon
As the month cools, the Miura peninsula in Kanagawa brings in its daikon harvest, and the thick radish rounds find their way into the oden pots at Noge's small standing bars, soaking up dashi until they're dense and yielding. The steam off the pot fogs the windows by 18:00.

Street food peaks

Tenshin amaguri (roasted chestnuts)
Vendors on Chukagai-dori roast chestnuts in hot black stones, and the smoky-sweet smell carries half a block. November's chill makes a warm paper bag of them the standard evening snack in Chinatown.
Yaki-imo (stone-roasted sweet potato)
The roasted sweet potato trucks return in November with their slow, sing-song loudspeaker calls, and you'll find them most often in the residential streets around Noge and Isogo, where the skin blisters and the flesh turns caramel-soft.

What to drink

Beaujolais Nouveau
Japan takes the release day of this young French wine seriously, and Yokohama wine bars and department stores around Yokohama Station open their bottles at midnight on the third Thursday.

In markets

Shanghai hairy crab (Shanghai-gani)
Chinatown restaurants import these crabs from roughly October to December, and November is when the females are full of rich orange roe, steamed whole and eaten with black vinegar and ginger. Many places need a day's notice.

Regular events in November

Culture Day (Bunka no Hi)Free

A national holiday. Tokyo families pour into Chinatown, Minato Mirai and the Yamate houses, and trains on the Minatomirai Line run packed through the afternoon.

November 3

Shichi-Go-San at Iseyama Kotai JinguFree

Families bring children aged three, five and seven to the shrine in kimono and hakama to pray for their health, and visitors can watch quietly from the shrine grounds near Sakuragicho.

Weekends around November 15

Sankei-en Chrysanthemum Exhibition

The garden displays trained chrysanthemums, including cascading and single-stem forms, along its main paths, and entry is included with normal garden admission.

Late October to around Labor Thanksgiving Day

Labor Thanksgiving Day (Kinro Kansha no Hi)Free

The second national holiday of the month, it often creates a three-day weekend that fills Yokohama hotels and the Kamakura trains.

November 23

Yokohama Marathon

The city's full marathon runs through Minato Mirai, Kannai and the Shuto expressway, and roads around the harbor close for much of race morning.

Late October or early November, varies by year

Beaujolais Nouveau release day

Wine bars and department stores near Yokohama Station hold tastings and midnight uncorkings of the new French vintage.

Third Thursday of November

Best places this November

Sankei-en
garden
A classical stroll garden with historic buildings, a hilltop pagoda and a pond ringed with maples that turn in late autumn.
Honmoku
Yamashita Park
park
A harborfront park with the moored Hikawa Maru ocean liner and a ginkgo-lined avenue along its landward edge.
Yamashita-cho
Harbor View Park (Minato-no-Mieru-Oka Koen)
viewpoint
A clifftop park on the Bluff with an English rose garden and views over the Yokohama Bay Bridge, warm in the midday sun and cold once dusk falls.
Yamate
Yokohama Chukagai
food district
Japan's largest Chinatown, with about 500 shops and restaurants inside its ornate gates, where crab-season menus fill the windows along Chukagai-dori.
Chinatown
Yokohama Marine Tower
viewpoint
A 1961 red-and-white tower beside Yamashita Park, with an indoor deck that looks down on the ginkgo avenue and proves its worth on the rare days it rains.
Yamashita-cho
Yokohama Archives of History
museum
A museum in the former British Consulate building, open since 1981, covering the opening of the port in 1859 and the treaty era.
Kannai
Motomachi Shopping Street
shopping street
A 600-metre boutique strip below the Bluff, where the Christmas decorations go up in the last days of the month.
Motomachi
Noge
nightlife district
A maze of tiny izakaya and standing bars near Sakuragicho, where oden pots and sake warmers come out once the evenings drop toward 10°C (50°F).
Noge

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Light down jacket or wool coatEvenings on the Osanbashi Pier deck feel several degrees colder than the forecast because of the bay wind. Shop
Thin merino or thermal base layerTrains and department stores are warm while the streets are cool, so a thin layer you can keep on beats a heavy sweater you end up carrying all afternoon. Shop
Scarf or neck gaiterThe wind funnels along the Kishamichi promenade and across the Bay Bridge viewpoints after sunset. Shop
Compact umbrellaNovember rain is mostly light drizzle spread across a few days, and a folding umbrella is enough. Convenience stores sell clear ones if you forget. Shop
Disposable hand warmers (kairo)You'll find them at every konbini, and they earn their place during an hour at the outdoor Christmas market or the Landmark Tower sunset wait outside. Shop
Slip-on shoesTemple halls at Kamakura and Shomyo-ji ask you to remove shoes, and laces get tedious on a foliage day with five stops. Shop
Telephoto lens or binocularsFuji sits about 80 kilometres (50 miles) west of Minato Mirai, and a zoom turns a faint cone into a proper snow-capped peak. Shop
Reusable tote bagChinatown chestnut bags, mikan from farm stands, and Christmas market mugs add up, and Japanese shops charge for plastic bags. Shop

Insider tips

Chinatown crab restaurants often sell out of the roe-heavy female crabs by mid-month. Phone ahead and ask for mesu (female) if the roe is what you want.
The ginkgo nuts on Yamashita Koen-dori smell strongly when stepped on, so walk the avenue on a weekday morning after the street cleaners have passed, around 09:00.
Iseyama Kotai Jingu is a 10-minute uphill walk from Sakuragicho Station, and it's far calmer for Shichi-Go-San watching than the big Tokyo shrines like Meiji Jingu.
Rinshunkaku, the lord's villa inside Sankei-en, opens its interior on only a few dates a year, and some fall in autumn. Check the garden's site before you pick a date.
The Minatomirai Line day pass covers the whole Yokohama-to-Motomachi-Chukagai stretch, and it pays for itself after about three rides on a harbor day.

Avoid these mistakes

If you're planning a foliage trip for the first week of November, bear in mind that the ginkgo and maples in Yokohama and Kamakura are usually still green then, with colour arriving in the last ten days.
If you visit Chinatown for lunch on Culture Day or Labor Thanksgiving Day, expect queues stretching down the side lanes. Go on a weekday instead, or get there before 11:30.
If you dress for the daytime high and plan to stay for the illuminations, pack an extra layer: the temperature often falls toward single digits Celsius (the 40s Fahrenheit) by 21:00 near the water.
Don't assume a baseball game is on. The season has ended, and the stadium tour is the most you'll get.

Practical tips for November

Book hotels for the two holiday weekends at least three weeks out, especially harbor-view rooms in Minato Mirai. Sankei-en and most Yokohama museums close on Mondays (or Tuesday if Monday is a holiday), and the Yamate Western houses close on the second Wednesday of each month. When the Yokohama Marathon falls in early November, it closes roads around the harbor and Kannai for the morning, so check the date before booking a Sunday bus tour. Keep outdoor sightseeing to 09:00 to 15:30: shadows lengthen fast, and garden photography suffers after 15:00. Shrines expect quiet, respectful behaviour during Shichi-Go-San, so avoid photographing children without asking parents. Tipping isn't customary anywhere in the city.

FAQ

Is November a good time to visit Yokohama?

Yes. It's one of the two best months, with mild dry days, the clearest Fuji views so far that year, Chinatown crab season and late-month ginkgo colour. Mind you, the holiday weekends are busy and the evenings are cold near the harbor.

What is the weather like in Yokohama in November?

Expect crisp, mostly sunny days warm enough for a long-sleeve shirt in the sun, and cool evenings that call for a proper jacket. Rain tends to come as light drizzle on a handful of days rather than heavy storms, and the typhoon risk has passed by this point.

When do the autumn leaves peak in Yokohama?

Usually from about November 20 into the first week of December. The ginkgo along Yamashita Park and Nihon Odori tends to turn slightly before the maples at Sankei-en, and Kamakura's temples peak at about the same time.

Is Yokohama crowded in November?

Weekdays are comfortable and moderately busy, but holiday weekends, Shichi-Go-San weekends, and the evenings after the Christmas lights come on are a different story, especially in Chinatown and Minato Mirai.

Is Yokohama safe for solo travellers in November?

Yokohama scores 8.3/10 for solo-traveler safety (see the TTDI Solo-Safety Index), and what's most likely to catch you out this month is the cold on a late harbor walk, so bring a warm layer and check last-train times from Noge after a night out.