Yokohama Port Museum

Yokohama Port Museum (横浜みなと博物館, Yokohama Minato Myūjiamu), formerly known as Yokohama Maritime Museum is a museum in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. It is located are located in the Nippon Maru Memorial Park, which is found in the Minato Mirai 21 District Nishi-ku ward of the central business district.

Yokohama Port Museum

Overview

Juxtaposed with the 1989 Yokohama Expo, celebrating 150 years of the port,[1] the Yokohama Maritime Museum which focuses on the harbor and vessels in Nihon Maru Memorial Park, was renovated and re-opened in the spring of 2009.[2][3] At that time, the Yokohama Maritime Museum was rebranded at the “Yokohama Port Museum".[4]

Exhibit contents
  • History zone of Yokohama Port[4]

There is an exhibition on the history of Yokohama Port since the arrival of the black ship[5]

  • Rediscovering zone at Yokohama Port

There are exhibits related to harbor loading and shipbuilding, and a marine vessel ship simulator[6]

References
  1. Editor (6 March 2009). "Yokohama port's 150th anniversary". The Japan Times Online. THE JAPAN TIMES LTD. Japan Times.CS1 maint: extra text: authors list (link)
  2. Lyons, Billy (12 February 2015). "Yokohama's Cosmo Clock 21 offers a glimpse of what's to come with The New York Wheel". SILive.com. Staten Island Advance. SILive.com.
  3. Kamizuru, Stephen (22 April 2009). "DailyTech - Giant Robot Spiders Rampage in Yokohama Japan". www.dailytech.com. DailyTech LLC. Daily Tech.
  4. P.G.T.D., Kanagawa (24 December 2015). "Yokohama Port Museum and the Training Ship Nippon Maru Learn all about the Port of Yokohama - DeepJapan". DeepJapan - Real Experience to Enrich Your Travel-. Deep Japan.
  5. Fujimoto, Masaru (1 June 2003). "Black Ships of 'shock and awe' | The Japan Times". The Japan Times. The Japan Times.
  6. Beyer, Vicki (30 June 2016). "On the waterfront at Yokohama: Spend a day exploring the historical port". Japan Today. GPlusMedia Inc.


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