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Ehrismann Residence
Silk trader Ehrismann's 1926 home by A. Raymond, relocated to Motomachi Park in 1990.
Osanbashi Yokohama International Passenger Terminal
One of Japan's largest passenger terminals, with a lawn rooftop and views across Yokohama Port.
Grand Mall Park
Vast sea-themed open space in Minato Mirai 21 with zelkova trees, sea-motif benches, a lawn plaza and night views.
Nihon-odori
Japan's first Western-style street, designed by R.H. Brunton and completed around 1870, lined with historic buildings.
Nippon Maru Memorial Park (Sailing Ship Nippon Maru and Yokohama Port Museum)
Waterfront park with sailing ship Nippon Maru, a national Important Cultural Property called the Swan of the Pacific.
Bluff No. 18
Foreign residence built after the 1923 earthquake, later a church rectory, restored and opened in Yamate in 1993.
Harbor View Park
Overlooks Yokohama Bay Bridge; three rose gardens bloom in May and from mid-October to mid-November.
Yokohama Minato Mirai 21
Port-facing area of modern towers, malls, and hotels, with Landmark Tower, Red Brick Warehouse, and an aerial ropeway.
Yokohama Landmark Tower
Offices, hotel, and mall around the tower, plus a hall and Dockyard Garden; Sky Garden closed December 31, 2025.
Kanagawa Prefectural Government Main Building
Completed in 1928 and nicknamed King's Tower, this national Important Cultural Property is a representative modern building of Yokohama.
Kishamichi Promenade
Promenade from Sakuragicho across the sea on a former 1911 port railway into Minato Mirai.
Gumyo-ji Kannon
Yokohama's oldest temple, founded in 1044. Main hall rebuilt in 1766. Eleven-faced Kannon is a National Important Cultural Property.
Sankeien Garden
Vast Japanese garden with relocated historic buildings and seasonal scenery, created by silk merchant Hara Sankei.
Bashamichi
Street in Yokohama named for foreign residents riding carriages; gas lamps and red-brick sidewalks remain.
Biwajima Benzaiten
Reportedly founded by Yoritomo's wife Hojo Masako, who built a sea island at Seto Shrine. Enshrines Benzaiten; Seaside Line view.
Berrick Hall
Built in 1930 as British trader B.R. Berrick's residence, the largest surviving prewar Yamate foreign house.
Myoko-ji
Said to have been founded in 652; its Kamakura-period bell is a prefectural Important Cultural Property.
Yamate House No. 111
Built in 1926 for American Mr. Raffin, designed by J.H. Morgan, and open to the public since 1999.
Yamate 234 Building
Built around 1927 as apartments for foreigners, designed by Kichizo Asaka. Second floor now used for galleries and meetings.
Yamate Italian Hill Garden
Once home to the Italian consulate, hence Italian Hill. Geometric Italian flower beds, free Western houses, and hill views.
Yokohama Red Brick Warehouse
Red-brick warehouses built from late Meiji to early Taisho, with cafes, shops, and harbor views.
Yokohama Archives of History
Holds about 270,000 Yokohama materials from Edo to early Showa; old building is the 1931 former British Consulate.
Yokohama British House
1937 British consul-general residence with King George VI's arms. British-owned until 1969. Some interiors remain British-style.
Yokohama Three Towers
Prefectural Office (King), Yokohama Customs (Queen), Port Opening Memorial Hall (Jack), likened to playing cards by foreign sailors.
Yokohama Customs
Islamic-style dome marks the 51-meter Queen tower, tallest of Yokohama's three, completed in 1934.
Gas Lamp Monument
Japan's first gas lamps were installed in 1872; a replica was restored in 1986.
Equine Museum of Japan
Closed for renovation, reopening around 2029. Negishi, Japan's first full-scale racecourse site, has horse materials and a pony center.
The Diplomat's House
1910 home of diplomat Uchida Sadatsuchi, designed by J.M. Gardiner, moved here in 1997; a national Important Cultural Property.
Former Ito Hirobumi Kanazawa Villa
Thatched-roof building built in 1898 by first Prime Minister Ito Hirobumi in Nojima Park, overlooking Hakkeijima and the sea.
Suzaki Shrine
Historic shrine said to have been founded in 1191 by Minamoto no Yoritomo.
Seto Shrine
Sea deity since the 5th-6th centuries; Yoritomo invited the Izu Mishima deity, grateful for aid against the Taira.
Soji-ji Temple
One of two Soto Zen head temples; moved to Yokohama after a Meiji fire. Open grounds, zazen, and sutra copying.
Namamugi Incident Monument and Site
1862 site where British merchants entering Shimazu Hisamitsu's procession were slashed, prompting the Anglo-Satsuma War.
Silk Museum
Museum introducing the silkworm-to-silk process, silk history, and kimono textile crafts, with live silkworms and workshops.
Kamonyama Park
Hilltop park in Nishi Ward overlooking Minato Mirai 21, with Ii Naosuke's statue and 200 cherry trees.
Shin-Yokohama Ramen Museum
Recreates 1958 retro streets with select ramen shops. Learn ramen history, make custom cup ramen or noodles, and shop.
Cup Noodles Museum Yokohama
Hands-on food education on instant ramen, invention, and venture spirit, with workshops making Chicken Ramen and original Cup Noodles.
Mitsubishi Minatomirai Industrial Museum
Hands-on technology museum with real rocket engines and a full-scale Shinkai 6500 model, covering deep sea to space.
Hara Model Railway Museum
Museum showing Hara Shintaro's railway models, first tickets, and antique toys, highlighted by a huge diorama.
Segami Citizens' Forest and Daimaru Plaza
Forest in southern Yokohama; Daimaru Plaza is a rest spot for walks.
Taya Caves (Josen-ji)
Huge man-made cave at Josen-ji, said to date from the Kamakura period, about 570 meters long.
Yokohama Park
Yokohama's second oldest park after Yamate Park, famous for Yokohama Stadium and spring tulips.
Kanagawa Prefectural Sakaigawa Retarding Basin Park
First prefectural urban park coordinated with river works, using a lower Sakaigawa flood basin in normal times.
Kanagawa Prefectural Kanazawa-Bunko Museum
Warrior library founded by Hojo Sanetoki; a prefectural history museum since 1990.
Ice Cream Origin Monument
Japan's ice cream is said to have started on Bashamichi in 1869; statue installed in 1976.
NYK Hikawa Maru
A 1930 Seattle-route cargo-passenger ship moored by Yamashita Park, Japan's only surviving prewar example and a 2016 Important Cultural Property.
Iseyama Kotaijingu Shrine
Yokohama's chief guardian shrine, enshrining Amaterasu and known as the Ise of the Kanto region.
Machiya Shrine
Oral tradition says Toyotomi retainers enshrined Gozu Tenno here after Osaka Castle fell and began the summer Gion festival.
Monument to the Origin of Telephone Exchange
Monument marking Japan's first telephone exchange, begun here in 1890 between Yokohama and Tokyo and within Yokohama.
Miyagawa Kozan Makuzu Museum
Compact housing for foreigners built around 1927, now open with Yamate 234 panels and gallery rental space.
Ryuge-ji
Ancient temple by Yoritomo and Mongaku in Kamakura's outer port, famed for senility-preventing Kannon, Muromachi Jizo, Daikoku, and peonies.
Shomyo-ji
Family temple of the Kanazawa Hojo, built in the Kamakura period, with a beautiful Jodo-style garden.
Okurayama Memorial Hall
Built in 1932 by Kunihiko Okura; a Yokohama City tangible cultural property and popular film location.
Yamate Catholic Church
A Christian Catholic church in Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture.
Yokohama Christ Church
Anglican church founded in 1947, begun as the British church of the foreign settlement.
Tsurumi Shrine
Said to date from Emperor Suiko's reign, renamed in 1920, and called the oldest shrine between Kawasaki and Yokohama.
Odori Park
Over 1km park from JR Kannai south exit to subway Bandobashi, built on a filled canal in eight sections.
Yokohama Rural Life Museum Misono Park Yokomizo Residence
Front gate, main house and storehouses preserve the original scenery of Edo-period rural life, a precious cultural heritage.
Yokohama Naritasan
Branch of Chiba's Naritasan Shinshoji drawing many worshippers; goma rites pray for wishes before Fudo Myoo.
Yokohama Street Art
Artworks around Yokohama enjoyed with strolling and shopping, including Fruit Tree in Rinko Park and Grand Mall Park pieces.
Minato Mirai Bridge
Bridge linking the Portside and Minato Mirai districts, overlooking Bay Quarter, Sogo Yokohama, and the Katabira River Canal.
Izumi River
Waterside developed by Yokohama City for plum, cherry, hydrangea, autumn leaves, and birdwatching.
Red Brick Park
Historic green space centered on the Red Brick Warehouse, preserving customs ruins and a former station platform.
France Bridge
Named for French troops stationed from late Edo to early Meiji. 140m bridge linking Yamashita-cho with Motomachi and Yamate.
Tsurumi Bridge Checkpoint Historic Site
Historic checkpoint set up to control suspicious ronin after repeated attacks on foreigners following Yokohama's port opening.
Yokohama Marine Tower
Yokohama symbol built for the port-opening centenary. Reopened September 1, 2022, with nighttime light and image media art.
Tennomori Izumikan (Former Shimizu Silk Mill Main Building)
Main building of the Meiji-founded Shimizu Silk Mill, a Yokohama City designated historic building.
Magokoro Farm
Seasonal vegetables centered on tomatoes and long green onions have rich flavor and lasting freshness.
Yokohama Doll Museum
A doll museum with over 10,000 pieces from 140-plus countries, including Living National Treasure works, plus hands-on events.
JOINUS Forest Sculpture Park
Rooftop garden near Yokohama Station's west exit at JOINUS Yokohama, with about 20,000 trees, an artificial waterfall, and paths.
Tokuzen-ji
Notable for a fine wooden temple gate, with seasonal plants to view in the grounds.
Hozo-ji
A Shingon temple a 10-minute walk from Ayase Station.
Zentsu-in Seishi-do
Soto Zen temple. Seishi Bodhisattva was excavated after a dream. Main hall built in 1624-43 enshrines Jurojin.
Yokohama Kanteibyo
Yokohama Chinatown building enshrining Guan Yu, with a colorful dragon-motif tower gate.
Hasseiden
Built in 1933 by Home Minister Adachi Kenzo for spiritual cultivation; now a local history museum.
Omaruyama (Kanazawa Citizens' Forest)
From Yokohama's highest peak at 156.8 meters, views of Kanazawa Hakkei and Tokyo Bay.
Yokohama Yamate Tennis Birthplace Memorial Hall
Lawn tennis reached Yokohama in 1876 and was first played in Yamate Park. The 1998 hall displays tennis history.
Former Yamate No. 68
Built in 1934 as rental housing for foreigners at Yamate 68, later relocated and now the Yamate Park management office.
Fujizuka Ruins (East of Yokone Inari)
High ground with views of Mount Fuji, Oyama, the Tanzawa mountains, and the Hakone range.
Yamate Museum
Built in Meiji 42, Yokohama's only Japanese-Western wooden Western-style house, with exhibits on culture and customs since the port opening.
Yatozaka Slope
A slope along Harbor View Park cutting through valley-like terrain, linking Yamashitacho and Motomachi with hilltop Yamatecho.
Nokendo Ruins
Sekihitsuzan Jizoin rebuilt by lord Kuze Hiroyuki in 1661-73; poems here began the Kanazawa Eight Views.
Fudo Pond
Quiet small pond in Nokendo Green Space, said to be visited by kingfishers and other birds.
Yatsu Sekigaya Fudoson
Fudo long revered by villagers; the precinct waterfall is the source of the Yatsu River.
Kamariya Citizens' Forest
Simple natural mixed woodland where large trees still remain.
Nissan Global Headquarters Gallery
Gallery of Nissan, founded in Yokohama in 1933, with latest cars and heritage displays.
Osaragi Jiro Memorial Museum
Introduces Yokohama writer Osaragi Jiro, south of Harbor View Park's observatory.
Kanagawa Prefectural Museum of Modern Literature
Museum, library, and lecture hall for Kanagawa-linked writers including Natsume Soseki and Akutagawa Ryunosuke.
Nissan Engine Museum
Displays 28 of about 200 Nissan engines in a 1934 building later designated modern industrial heritage.
Yokohama Local Meteorological Observatory
1927 office renovated in 2007 to a Tadao Ando design, with seismic reinforcement and a new second building.
Yokohama City Tram Museum
Preserves seven tram cars, stop signs, and paving stones; opened in 1973 and rebuilt in 1983.
Dockyard Garden
Japan's oldest existing stone dock for merchant ships, restored beside Landmark Tower for concerts and promotions.
Hokubu Daini Water Reclamation Center
East of the Tsurumi River estuary, treating Tsurumi Ward's Tokyo Bay side nonstop since 1984.
Tsurumi River Embankment
From the riverside path and embankment, watch waterbirds, photograph trains and the Shinkansen, and see Mount Fuji on clear days.
Zounohana Park Yamashita Rinko Line Promenade Viaduct
About 500-meter promenade linking near Yokohama Customs, via Osanbashi entrance, to Yamashita Park's west end, built reusing the old line.
Yokohama English Garden
English garden centered on about 2,200 rose varieties, with a rose tunnel, six areas, a cafe, and a shop.
Sandendai Ruins and Archaeology Museum
Jomon, Yayoi and Kofun village ruins on a 55-meter hill in Okamura, Yokohama, designated a national historic site in 1966.
Yamate Park
Japan's first Western-style park, created for foreign residents and famous as where tennis was first played in Yokohama.
Augusta Milk Farm
Yokohama farm offering cow milk, rich soft-serve, over 50 gelato flavors, and cow contact.
Yamashitacho Park
Park in Yokohama Chinatown with Chinese-style arbor Kaihotei and lion monuments in an exotic setting.
Tokozen-ji
Temple over 800 years old. Zazen and sutra copying by reservation; beginners guided; English zazen explanations available.
Kanagawa Prefectural Museum of Cultural History
Museum of Kanagawa culture and history one minute from Bashamichi Station; its neo-baroque wing is a national Important Cultural Property.
Ooka River Promenade
3.5 km Ooka River promenade with about 350 cherry trees, a leading Yokohama blossom spot, lantern-lit in bloom season.
Yokohama Mazu Temple
Enshrines Mazu, goddess of safe voyages, health and peace, and matchmaking god Gekka Rojin, in Chinese-style decor.
Rinko Park
Minatomirai's largest green space, with lawn plaza, south plaza, and tidal pond, overlooking Yokohama Port.
Nojima Park Observatory
Observatory atop Nojima Mountain with 360-degree views of Yokohama's sea, the Boso Peninsula, and Mt. Fuji.
Negishi Natsukashi Park Former Yanagishita Residence
Restored modern Japanese-Western house open to the public; Yokohama City tangible cultural property since 2002.
Yokohama Foreign General Cemetery
Began by burying Perry fleet sailors; now over 5,000 foreigners from about 40 countries, including noted figures in Japan's Westernization.
Shirahata Migawari Jizo
Jizo called Migawari after robbers beheaded it by mistake while young brothers hid behind it; locally revered.
Honmoku Shrine
Shrine known for matchmaking and evil-warding prayers; exhibition hall for prefecture-designated O-uma-nagashi ritual.
Sogo Museum of Art
Unprecedented full-scale museum in a department store holding Shintaro Suzuki oils, with domestic and overseas painting and sculpture exhibitions.
Motomachi Hyakudan Park
Park symbolized by a giant cherry tree; named for the 101-step Hyakudan stairs destroyed in the Great Kanto Earthquake.
Yokohama Municipal Children's Botanical Garden
About 3.0 ha park opened in 1979 for the International Year of the Child, with many gardens and rare varieties.
Kodozan Honbutsuden
Buddhist temple atop Mount Kodo overlooking Yokohama and Minato Mirai, with 250 spring cherry trees and a two-story reliquary pagoda.
Keikyu Museum
Opened in 2020 at Keikyu Group headquarters, showing Deha 230, a line diorama, driving simulation, and crafts.
BankART Station
Core BankART1929 space under Shin-Takashima Station for exhibitions, a shop, cafe, pub, and school.
Kanagawa Prefectural Archives
Collects and preserves prefectural public records and old documents, and holds exhibitions and lectures.
Kanagawa Prefectural Plaza for Global Citizenship
Facility for children's sensibility, global citizenship, and international activities, with exhibition rooms, a library, and events.
Kanagawa Prefectural Music Hall
Modernist hall by Kunio Maekawa, opened in 1954, with all-wood walls and acclaimed acoustics.
Yokohama Marine Tower
Yokohama symbol built in 1961 as a port centennial project, once Japan's tallest lighthouse, with about 90-meter observation floors.
Okurayama Park
Plum grove of 46 varieties and Okurayama Memorial Hall, a designated tangible cultural property.
Kanagawa Prefectural War Dead Memorial Hall
1953 hall mourning war dead since the Meiji era, with views, cherry blossoms, and azaleas.
Yokohama Museum of Art
Large art museum with symmetrical exterior, open Grand Gallery, nine rooms, atelier, and library of about 240,000 books.
Tulips at Yokohama Park
Yokohama's second-oldest park after Yamate Park, famous for Yokohama Stadium and colorful spring tulips.
Mystery of Tutankhamen: Immersive Ancient Egypt Exhibition
Permanent immersive Tutankhamen exhibition at Yokohama Minato Mirai's Tutankhamen Museum (PLOT48).
Minato Mirai Sakura Street Cherry Blossoms
Roughly 100 Someiyoshino cherries line 500 meters from Sakuragicho Station to Landmark Tower and Pacifico Yokohama, a popular blossom spot.
Roses of the Yamate Italian Hill Garden
Park called Italian Hill for its former Italian consulate, with a geometric Italian garden and seasonal flowers.
Hamagin Children's Space Science Museum
Hands-on science museum featuring the world's best starry sky, designed as a giant spaceship with five themed exhibition rooms.
CRAFT. BankPark YOKOHAMA
City-designated historic former Dai-ichi Bank Yokohama Branch, built in 1929, used for exhibitions, launches, and filming.