Yokohama is the most populous city in Japan as a regional municipality.
Do you know of experiences that explores the deep history of Yokohama?
Let us begin to introduce you two of Super Japanese associated with Yokohama.
Sankei Hara
-Basically a businessman, known as an art collector and tea master. He began collecting art around the age of 25, amassing a collection of over 5,000 pieces. He also founded the Hotel New Grand and served as the first president of the Bank of Yokohama. Sankeien, Sankei’s final residence, is a huge Japanese garden that has retained its reputation as the Katsura Imperial Villa(Katsura Rikyu) in the east and has become a place of relaxation for citizens in Yokohama nowadays.
Kozan Miyagawa
-Potter, ceramic artist. One of the most famous Japanese potters of the Meiji era, who was an actual founder of Makuzu-Ware (Makuzu-yaki, sometimes people called it Yokohama-yaki in those days. At the age of 35, he studied Satsuma ware, which was initially popular in Europe and the U.S., and developed a new technique called “Taka-Ukibori” (high relief). Makazu-yaki made with this technique was exhibited at the World’s Fair in Philadelphia and was highly praised by many countries, making Makazu-yaki and Kozan Miyagawa well known throughout the world, as a pride of Japan.
Japan Tourism Agency.
I often take a walk from Minatomirai area to Yamashita Park. We take a walk for no particular purpose, but even so, I am originally highly satisfied with Yokohama because of its various views and atmosphere.
What I remember most from this trip is that we exchanged a contract with each other to properly enjoy this trip. And when I heard that it was really the place where Admiral Perry signed the treaty, I was impressed that he thought of it so well. There were many things I did not know about classic hotels like the Hotel New Grand when they explained its history to me, and it was obvious that the building itself is of great historical value, especially the ballroom, which even made me feel nostalgic. I am also interested in art, so the story of the Makazu-Ware collector was compelling and very unparalleled. There were many people who tried to make it big in Yokohama from the end of the Edo period to the beginning of the Meiji period, and it was a valuable opportunity to look at their life stories from a bird’s eye view.
When it came to Sankeien Garden, I was amazed at the scale of the garden and wondered how a single individual could create such a garden! What a guy!
I live in Tokyo, even if Yokohama is only 30 minutes away by car, she has the ocean view and I have deep memories of my student days there, but I am surprised that I don’t know more about it.
This trip was my first visit to the Yokohama Archives of History and Sankeien Garden, and I was reminded once again that such wonderful places were so close by! I was very impressed with Perry’s gastronomy, and if you unravel Yokohama starting with the history of the opening port, you can tell dozens of different gastronomy stories! That would be one of Yokohama’s fortes! I didn’t even know about Makazu-Ware, but it renewed my awareness that Japan has much more to be proud of, and that it is so close by…..
Sankeien Garden is probably one of the finest Japanese gardens, and I think foreigners would be pleased with it. I was also surprised to see the existence of the MacArthur Suite at Hotel New Grand. What a history Yokohama has!
Yokohama you never experienced!
Since Admiral Perry’s arrival in Japan, Yokohama has been the first opening port and gateway to the rest of the world, welcoming different cultures while also undergoing major changes of its own and fostering a unique culture now we called “YOKOHAMA”.
In the pioneering period when the Port of Yokohama opened and the influx of different cultures began to swell, two great men we can call them Super Japanese from Yokohama, Sankei Hara and Kozon Miyagawa, have left their footprints firmly behind. It goes without saying that the story of these two men is at the core of the existence value of “Yokohama,” which has been passed down to the present age, as they shaped different cultures into their own while responding to the turbulent times from the end of the Edo period to the Meiji and Taisho periods.
Many talents from all over Japan came to Yokohama at the time!
This time, we have mixed the strengths of Yokohama, such as a number of “mono-no-hajime” (the beginning of things), Super Japanese that Yokohama has created, and created once-in-your-lifetime experience called “YOKOHAMA TRUST,” a signature product that can only be experienced in Yokohama.
A hidden-gem of a two-day / one-night tour including custom-made Japanese cultural experiences in a huge Japanese garden!
in Yokohama
with fabulously unrivaled
Omotenashi Experiences!
The “Admiral Perry Dinner Experience” by Michelin Star, inspired by the actual dinner menu that the Shogunate in Edo era entertained Admiral Perry at the time of his arrival.
Yokohama welcomes you with the best hospitality. You will enjoy it to your heart’s content. The “Contract Experience”, a signing ceremony at the actual place where Japan-U.S.Treaty of Peace and Amity was signed.
highly appreciated as
The Pride of Japan.
It is only at YOKOHAMA TRUST that you can hear rare stories directly from owner-collectors in a wonderful private museum.
You can go inside the renovated Rinchunkaku. Special viewing is available, which is not normally allowed.
Can’t introduce you all on this pages!
Special customized plans are also available for second honeymooners and business owners to welcome you.
