Wender·Vista
Yokohama
shown on ceramic, 12-inch tileJapan
on Tokyo Bay, just south of the capital

Yokohama

— — a harbour that learned the world early.

— Where it lives

Not only on a wall.

A small tile on the nightstand catching the morning. A larger one above the fire. Yours, wherever you spend the slow hours.
— On the nightstand, a 6-inch on a walnut stand
— Among the books, a 6-inch leaning into the spines
— Beside the kettle, a 12-inch propped
— Down a quiet hall, an 18-inch floating off the wall
— Above the fire, the 24-inch in a walnut surround
— a note from the studio

“Japan's second-largest city by population, on the western shore of Tokyo Bay. The port opened to foreign trade in 1859 and Yokohama has worn that hinge ever since: the country's first gas lamps, first daily newspaper, first cinemas. The Minato Mirai skyline holds the modern face. The Bashamichi brick fronts and the Chinatown gates hold the older one.

from the studio
Yokohama
— bring it home

Yokohama, on ceramic.

Each tile is finished by hand in our Knoxville studio. Artwork is slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, and rests beneath a thin glossy finish. The colour lives in the surface, not on top of it.

What kind of piece?
One tile — square or rectangle.
How big?
the popular one — counter, shelf, nightstand
6 × 6 in · 15 cm · 1.6 lb
Surface finish
A clear glossy finish — the artwork reads as if under resin. Ideal for show-pieces and framed wall art.
How it sits
A hidden cleat — sits ¼″ proud of the wall.
$58
Hand-finished and shipped from our studio at the foot of the Smokies. On your wall in about ten days.
— size
6 × 6 in
15 cm
— weighs
1.6 lb
solid in the hand
— surface
ceramic, hand-finished
art rests beneath a thin glossy finish
— from
Knoxville, TN
our family studio, at the foot of the Smokies
— start a Coaster Set

Pick any four 4-inch tiles — National Parks you've been to, a Smokies set, the four seasons of one place. $ for a set of , cork-backed, ready to live on the table.

— about Yokohama

The place, in three passes.

A little of what's known, in case you fall down the rabbit hole — or want to go see it yourself.
— the place

Yokohama is the capital of Kanagawa Prefecture and the second-most populous city in Japan, with about 3.77 million residents. It sits on the western edge of Tokyo Bay, around 30 kilometres south of central Tokyo, joined to it by the Keihin industrial corridor. The modern city dates to 1859, when the Tokugawa shogunate opened the small fishing village as one of five treaty ports under the Harris Treaty with the United States. The Minato Mirai 21 district, planned in the 1980s, redeveloped the former shipyards into the present waterfront.

— the stone

Bashamichi and the Kannai district keep the early Meiji-era brickwork that gave Yokohama its first European face — the Red Brick Warehouse, built between 1907 and 1913 as a customs facility, is the surviving anchor. Above it, the 296-metre Landmark Tower rose in 1993 as the tallest building in Japan at the time. Yokohama Chinatown, the largest in Japan with roughly 600 shops and restaurants inside its four gates, has held the same blocks since merchants from Guangzhou settled there in the 1860s after the port opened.

— the visit

Yokohama is about 30 minutes from Shinagawa on the JR Tōkaidō Line, or 25 minutes from Shibuya on the Tōkyū Tōyoko. Minato Mirai 21 is the spine: the Landmark Tower, the Cosmo Clock 21 Ferris wheel at 112.5 metres, the Yokohama Museum of Art, and Sankei-en Garden a short tram ride south. The Red Brick Warehouse and Chinatown are walkable from Bashamichi station. Summer brings the harbour fireworks on the first Monday of August; the cooler months from October through March keep the bay air clear.

— where
Japan · Yokohama, Kanagawa
— position
35.4437° N · 139.6380° E
— the neighborhood

What's nearby.

A handful of named places within an hour's walk or short drive. Some we've already painted; some we will.
30 km N
Tokyo
capital city
22 km SW
Kamakura
historic town
65 km SW
Hakone
mountain town
N
Yokohama
Tokyo
Kamakura
Hakone
— common questions

What people ask.

A few questions we get about Yokohama — and about bringing the piece home.
— about the place

The port opened on 2 June 1859 under the Treaty of Amity and Commerce with the United States, signed the year before. Yokohama was chosen over nearby Kanagawa-juku and grew within a decade from a fishing village into an international port.

It holds roughly 600 shops and restaurants inside four ornamental gates, the largest Chinatown in Japan and one of the largest in the world. Cantonese merchants settled the district in the early 1860s after the port opened.

A 296-metre office and hotel tower in Minato Mirai 21, completed in 1993. It held the title of Japan's tallest building until Abeno Harukas opened in Osaka in 2014. The 69th-floor Sky Garden looks across the bay to Mount Fuji.

Two brick customs warehouses on the Minato Mirai waterfront, built between 1907 and 1913 and restored in 2002 as galleries, shops, and an event hall. They are the surviving anchor of the old port's Meiji-era brickwork.

About 30 minutes from Shinagawa on the JR Tōkaidō or Yokosuka lines, or 25 minutes from Shibuya on the Tōkyū Tōyoko to Minato Mirai. From Tokyo Station the Keihin-Tōhoku line runs the full corridor in around 40 minutes.

— about the piece in your home

The city has a strong local identity — hamakko, people born to Yokohama, take real pride in the harbour skyline and the Chinatown gates. A Small or Medium with a handwritten studio note carries well to a hamakko abroad.

The piece pulls bay-blues, brick reds, and lantern oranges. It sits comfortably in Japandi, modern Asian, and warm-industrial loft rooms, against pale oak, dark walnut, or exposed brick.

The piece reads as Japandi-adjacent. The restrained palette and stained-glass linework keep the calm Japandi rooms ask for, while the harbour subject adds the worldly note that pure Japandi sometimes leaves out.

A single Large reads from across the room above a console. Above a full sofa, a 4-tile Mural carries the harbour line; a 9-tile Mural fits a wide great-room wall.

Yes, in Dura Satin or Matte. Both are scratch-resistant and built for steam, so a Medium or Large works above a vanity, behind a sink, or on a kitchen backsplash.

A soft microfibre cloth and clean water. The colour is slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, so the image cannot lift or scratch off in normal household care.

Yes. Every WenderVista piece comes from a single studio in Knoxville, Tennessee, painted in our stained-glass and alcohol-ink visual language by Reid Wender. The work is not licensed from any other artist or stock library.

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