Motomachi / Chinatown / Yamashita is a established-tier Class A submarket of Yokohama with average asking rent around ¥18,000/tsubo/mo · ≈ $40.7 PSF/yr USD.
Historic mixed-use core. · Tier: established · Avg rent: ¥18,000/tsubo">tsubo/mo · ≈ $40.7 PSF/yr USD
Motomachi, Chinatown, and Yamashita anchor Yokohama's historic mixed-use Class A submarket — boutique HQs, hospitality, and consulting in heritage and post-2000 mid-rise stock.
Boutique HQs, hospitality, consulting, retail HQs.
15–40,000 sqft floor plates available across newer Class A stock; 9'+ slab-to-slab and modern MEP common.
Minatomirai Line (Motomachi-Chukagai, Nihon-odori), JR Negishi.
Multi-modal transit captures the metro's principal professional catchment.
Yokohama Chinatown, Yamashita Park, Hikawa Maru.
Motomachi / Chinatown / Yamashita is one of 5 Class A submarkets we cover in Yokohama, classified as established tier with an average asking rent around ¥18,000/tsubo/mo · ≈ $40.7 PSF/yr USD. Compared with the broader Yokohama Class A stock, Motomachi / Chinatown / Yamashita typically attracts Boutique HQs, hospitality, consulting, retail HQs and competes most directly with the city's other established submarkets on building specification, transit access, and amenitisation.
Adjacent submarkets to study alongside Motomachi / Chinatown / Yamashita: Minato Mirai 21, Yokohama Station West / East, Kannai / Bashamichi, Shin-Yokohama. The full Yokohama submarket atlas is at /cities/yokohama.
For an institutional Class A occupier evaluating Motomachi / Chinatown / Yamashita, the highest-leverage analyses to commission next are the rent benchmark, the concession-package comparable, and the ESG performance baseline. Class A Atlas covers each as a dedicated topic page for this submarket:
Terminology specific to Yokohama Class A leasing and to the established tier: Class A, Trophy asset, Effective rent, Concession package, TI allowance, Submarket tier.
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