Museums in Yokohama, 神奈川県

Fresh reviews:

This place is worth a visit if you’re in the area and have time to kill. The displays related to the history of western-style dolls and on regional dolls in Japan and on doll-making are great. They also have performances for kids and other special shows on occasion. Some of the «dolls» are really just a…

James W.

Yokohama Doll Museum

Kind of a mediocre museum, but at «free» the price is right, as is the location. It’s inside the stone Moorish building, whose tower is known as «Queen,» diagonally across from the prefectural capital (ken-chō), whose tower is known as «King.»The museum itself a mix of Yokohama history (and there are better…

James W.

Yokohama Customs Museum

The Sogo Museum of Art is really just a gallery that puts on rotating exhibits, quite often focused on popular illustrations, manga, and animé, rather than «fine arts.» I’ve been to four or five shows there (Mucha, Evangelion, Rose of Versailles, Nakahara Junichi, etc.) and each time, the curators have done an…

James W.

Sogo Museum of Art

A reasonably interesting, if quite small, museum on Yokohama History. There are lots of photos and some artifacts. Very limited labeling in English, as I recall. If you live here and are curious about how things looked in the area over time, including during and immediately after the war, there are worse ways…

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Museum of Yokohama Urban History

A small, dull (ish) museum on EuraAsian cultures, with an historical bent. It’s located inside a late 1929 building that’s been preserved reasonably well given the city’s penchant for destroying or irreparably altering its modern architectural heritage.The displays cover cultures across Eurasia. There are maps…