Explore Yokohama

The CupNoodles Museum Yokohama, opened in 2011 in Minato Mirai, tells the story of instant noodles and their inventor Momofuku Ando, who created Chicken Ramen in 1958 and Cup Noodles in 1971. Visitors see a replica of his work shed and a wall of noodle packages, and can design their own cup in a workshop.

The Yokohama Museum of Art opened in 1989 in the Minato Mirai district, in a stone-clad building by Kenzo Tange with a 180-metre colonnaded facade. Its collection of more than 15,000 works includes Cézanne, Picasso, Dalí and Magritte, artists linked to Yokohama and photography, and it reopened after a major renovation.

Hikawa Maru is an ocean liner built in Yokohama for the NYK Line and put into service in 1930 on the route to Seattle. She served as a hospital ship in the Second World War, crossed the Pacific 254 times and has been moored at Yamashita Park since 1961; visitors walk through the Art Deco passenger rooms, the bridge and the engine room.

Yokohama Marine Tower is a 106-metre lattice tower beside Yamashita Park, opened in 1961 and long used as a lighthouse for the port. Its observation floors on levels 29 and 30, about 100 metres up, look over the harbour and, on clear days, to Mount Fuji. The city restored the tower, which reopened in 2022.

Sankei-en is a Japanese garden in Yokohama's Naka Ward laid out by the silk merchant Hara Tomitarō, known as Sankei, and opened to the public in 1906. Around its ponds and wooded hills stand historic buildings he brought from Kyoto, Kamakura and elsewhere, among them the three-storey pagoda of Tōmyō-ji from 1457; ten are Important Cultural Properties.

The Shin-Yokohama Ramen Museum opened in 1994 in Yokohama's Kōhoku Ward as a museum devoted to ramen. The ground floor covers the dish's history and the noodles, soups, toppings and bowls used across Japan, while the basement floors recreate a Tokyo streetscape of 1958, where branches of regional ramen shops serve their bowls.