Abbreviation of Ayumi in Yokohama City

Preear pottery and Jomon period were before farming became the center of life, but in Yokohama city area, the first traces of the activities of late pottery people can be seen at the Asahi Ward Yasashiya archeological site. In the middle of Jomon period, large settlements called ring settlements, such as the Sannomaru Tsuzuki Ward  , were left, and people's lives are known.

Yayoi period was a time when full-fledged rice cultivation and the use of metalware began. There are villages of agricultural groups that grow rice at the Sandendai archeological site in Isogo Ward and Otsuka and Toshikatsudo archeological sites in Tsuzuki-ku.

The ancient times spanned the Kofun period, where tombs were built for the chiefs of the region, and the Nara and Heian periods, when a nation based on the law of Ritsuryo was created.
The oldest character historical material related to the city area is a wooden letter written as "Morooka fifty houses" discovered in Asuka, which corresponds to the later Shiokago, Hisayoshi-gun. In ancient times, the city area was organized around Tsuzuki-gun and Hisayoshi-gun in Musashi-kuni, and people were burdened with various burdens, such as guards seen in Manyoshu. The Chojabaru archeological site in Aoba Ward is the site of the ancient Tsuzuki-gun government office. Since the 10th century, the eastern country has become the foundation for creating samurai, but archeological sites related to the city area, such as the Tsuzuki and Nishinoya archeological sites that made armor parts, have been discovered.

The Middle Ages was a time when battles were repeated by new warriors.

When the samurai government was established in Kamakura, Rokuura in Kanazawa Ward was a cluster of supplies that supported Kamakura in the Middle Ages, and many people from various countries, including merchants and craftsmen, gathered and showed great liveliness. In addition, Buddhist culture that is as good as Kamakura flourished, centering on Shomeiji Temple.

The early modern era was a period of stable society centered on the Edo shogunate.

In the Edo period, there were more than 200 villages in Yokohama, many of which were the Shogunate territory and the flagship territory, but in 1721, the Musashi Kanazawa Domain (Mr. Yonekura) was established. In Keicho 6 (1601), Kanagawa-juku and Hodogaya-juku were established as post towns on the Tokaido, and Tozuka-juku was established in Keicho 9 (1604), which became the center of the local economy and culture.