[Welcome spring at the Yokohama New Grand Hotel and Hikawa Maru, with cherry blossoms in full bloom, and Yamashita Park]
[Yokohama New Grand Hotel and Hikawa Maru with cherry blossoms in full bloom, welcome spring at Yamashita Park]
The weeping cherry trees in front of Hotel New Grand in spring in Yokohama are already in full bloom. The rows of cherry trees near the Yokohama Doll Museum will soon bloom, so it would be nice to take a leisurely stroll around Motomachi.
🌳Yamashita Park
Yamashita Park opened in March 1930 (Showa 5). It was created by filling up rubble from the Great Kanto Earthquake.
The park has many attractions, including views of the sea, monuments and song monuments. The view of Yokohama Bay Bridge and ships passing through the harbor is romantic. It is also famous for its many monuments that give a sense of rich exchanges with overseas countries, such as the "Statue of a Girl in Red Shoes" familiar from a nursery rhyme, the "Indian Water Tower" donated by the Indian Association in Japan in 1937, and the "Guardian of Water" donated by the sister city of San Diego, USA.
Yamashita Park is also a famous rose spot in Yokohama, and every spring and autumn, many roses bloom in the "Future Rose Garden."
📍Location: 279 Yamashitacho, Naka Ward, Yokohama, Kanagawa 231-0023
🧑✈️Nippon Yusen Hikawa Maru
Hikawa Maru is a cargo-passenger ship built by Nippon Yusen in 1930 for the Seattle route. It was completed as the most advanced ship at the time. During the war, it became a special naval hospital ship, and although it struck mines three times before the end of the war, it escaped sinking. After the war, it returned to being a cargo-passenger ship and returned to the Seattle route in 1953. By the time it reached 30 years of age and retired from the front line, it had made 254 Pacific crossings and carried over 25,000 passengers.
After being retired in 1960, it was moored and preserved in front of Yamashita Park from 1961, and reopened in 2008 as the "Nippon Yusen Hikawa Maru."
It is the only cargo-passenger ship built in Japan before the war and still standing, and is highly regarded as a valuable industrial heritage that conveys shipbuilding technology and the interior of passenger ships, and was designated an Important Cultural Property in 2016. "
🏛️Nippon Yusen Hikawa Maru
💰Price per person: 300-
📍Location: 231-0023 Kanagawa, Yokohama, Naka Ward, Yamashitacho, Yamashita Park
☕️Hotel New Grand
With its beautiful grand staircase, banquet hall, and courtyard, Hotel New Grand offers hospitality that everyone wants to stay at once.
"The dawn of Japanese hotels
It is believed that foreign-style hotels began to appear in Japan around the 17th century. During the Genroku period of the Edo period, when Japan was closed to the outside world, they were aimed at the Dutch, who were the only trading country allowed to stay. The first hotel with full-fledged facilities is said to have been the Tsukiji Hotel in Tsukiji, Tokyo, built in 1867. Following the Treaty of Peace and Amity between the United States and Japan in 1854, Japan was forced to open trade with Europe and the United States, and as a result, it was necessary to accommodate the increasing number of foreign visitors. With the start of the Meiji period, the construction of hotels increased dramatically, and many of them were exclusively for foreigners. In this way, the history of Japanese hotels can be seen to have developed as the gates between Japan and the rest of the world expanded. This can also be seen in the case of the Hotel New Grand after the 3/11 earthquake and tsunami, but hotels were an indispensable connection for the Japanese, who continued to avidly absorb Western culture. "
☕️Hotel New Grand
📍Address: 10 Yamashitacho, Naka Ward, Yokohama, Kanagawa 231-8520
Yokohama Marine Tower
🕰️Opening hours: 10AM-22-PM
📍Address: 14-1 Yamashitacho, Naka Ward, Yokohama, Kanagawa 231-0023
Media Art Gallery in Yokohama Marine Tower
🕰️Opening hours: 18:00-21:30 (last entry)
(June-August period: 19:00)
🏖️Atmosphere/Facilities: A new "Media Art Gallery" has been established on the observation floor where you can enjoy the scenery and digital art images superimposed on each other. We actively incorporate the works of young artists and disseminate creative expressions of the new era. Please enjoy the art experience that can only be had at Yokohama Marine Tower.
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