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Kenzo Tange’s Yokohama Among the many 4,500 tombs Environs
Museum of Art houses in the early 20th-century Outside the center are two
displays of modern art and Foreigners’ Cemetery is that entertaining venu es – Kirin
photography. of Edmund Morel, the English Beer Village, with tasting
In the older, more attractive engineer who helped build tours of the automated Kirin
part of town, the NYK Maritime Japan’s first railroads, with a brewery; and Shin-Yokohama
Museum covers the history of tombstone shaped like a Ramen Museum (see p136).
shipping, with detail ed models. railroad ticket. The lovely The Hodogaya Commonwealth
Created on rubble from the Sankei-en Garden belonged to Cemetery (a bus ride from
1923 earthquake, Yamashita silk-trader Tomitaro Hara (1868– Yokohama, Hodogaya, or
Park is a pleasant promenade 1939). Among the ponds and Sakuragi-cho stations) contains
overlooking the futuristic flowers are 16 architectural Allied graves from World War II
Osanbashi Pier; ships, including treasures, including a three- (including POWs).
the restored moored liner story pagoda from Kyoto.
Hikawa Maru, which cruised Kirin Beer Village
between Yokohama and Seattle Landmark Tower £ Namamugi stn, Keihin Kyuko line.
in 1930–60; and the 2,800-ft Tel (045) 222-5015. Open daily. Tel (045) 503-8250. Open Tue–Sun.
(860-m) long Yoko hama Bay P Yokohama Museum of Art
Bridge (1989). Tel (045) 221-0300. Open Fri–Wed. &
Chinatown, the largest of
Japan’s three Chinatowns, has P NYK Maritime Museum
around 2,500 Chinese inhabit- Tel (045) 211-1923. Open Tue–Sun. &
ants, and a mass of restaurants, Hikawa Maru
food shops, Chinese-medicine Tel (045) 641-4362. Open Tue–Sun. &
shops, and fortune-tellers. At its
heart is the Chinese Kantei- Z Foreigners’ Cemetery
byo temple (1886), dedicated Tel (045) 622-1311. Open Apr–Nov:
to ancient Chinese hero Guan- Sat, Sun, & public hols.
yu, who was worshiped as a Y Sankei-en Garden
god of war but is now popular 10 mins by bus from Negishi stn (JR)
as a god of busi ness success to Honmoku Sankei-en Mae. One of the colorful entrance gates to
and prosperity. Tel (045) 621-0634. Open daily. & Yokohama’s Chinatown

Yokohama City Center
1 Minato Mirai 21
2 Yokohama Museum of Art
3 Landmark Tower
Pacifico 4 NYK Maritime Museum
Yokohama
Shin Yokohoma Station Exhibition Hall 5 Kantei-byo Temple
600m (650 yards)
Ramen Museum, MINATO 6 Chinatown
Kirin Beer Village,
TOKYO MIRAI 21 Convention 7 Yamashita Park
KOKUSAI-ODORI
Hall
Yokohama 8 Hikawa Maru
Museum of Art Minato Cosmo 9 Foreigners’ Cemetery
SAKURA-DORI
Landmark Mirai Clock 21
Plaza SHINKO-CHO
Landmark Tower
Nippon Maru
Yokohama
NYK Maritime International
Museum Passenger
METROPOLITAN
Terminal
EXPRESSWAY
Sakuragicho Kanagawa
Prefectural Bashamichi
Hodogaya Museum
Commonwealth Hikawa Maru
BASHAMICHI KANNAI-ODORI KANNAI Yamashita
Cemetery HONCHO-DORI
Nippon Odori
Park
MINATO-ODORI OSANBASHI-ODORI Marine Yokohama
Tower
Bay Bridge
Kannai CHINATOWN Motomachi-
0 meters 500 Chukagai Sankei-en
Yokohama Kantei-byo Garden
Stadium Temple MOTOMACHI Foreigners’
METROPOLITAN EXPRESSW AY
0 yards 500 METROPOLITAN EXPRESSWAY Cemetery
Motomachi
Ishikawacho Nakamura River YAMATE
Park
For keys to symbols see back flap
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