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A watch shop with a history of more than 100 years. Our favorite is the original brand "fw" wristwatch, which is reasonable and high quality. You should be able to meet one of the stylish and unique designs.

It is located in Yamate Park, and exhibits the history of tennis in Japan. The first floor of the two-story wooden structure is an exhibition room, and the second floor is an office. It will take 20 minutes.

French-style theater with red brick and white walls. It was built in memory of Jiro Daibutsu, a novelist known for such things as "Kurama Tengu" and "Pariyu Yuyu". He was born in Yokohama and has a work room in one room of the Hotel New Grand. He has restored his later study, which he loved in Yokohama. It displays self-written manuscripts and love supplies, French historical literature, French political caricatures and a collection of cats that he described as "a lifetime companion." books can be freely read in the reading room. Set in Yokohama during the early Meiji era, the novel "Kirifuki" is named after the Tearoom Drifuki in the hall and the "Kirifuki Bridge", which spans the side of the memorial hall. It takes 20 minutes.

A private museum that collects art objects about cats from around the world. Cat works with a variety of facial expressions, such as paintings, objects, folk art, and ukiyo-e, are irresistible for cat lovers. It also sells cat goods made by artists, such as T-shirts and postcards.

A museum that conveys Yokohama in the Meiji-Taisho period to the present. In the year of Meiji 42 (1909), the Yōkan portion of the Nakazawa residence, which was built as a Japanese-Western-style residential building, was relocated in 1977. It displays a commentary on a one-150th model of Yokohana Ukiyo-e depicting the situation at the time of the opening of the port, a manga prototype, a punch picture, a gearman, an organ, a gramophone and a full view of the foreign cemetery. There is also an extensive collection of furniture and glass tableware that conveys life at the time of opening. It is sold at reception such as Yamate Change Magazine 1620 yen. It takes 20 minutes.

The old Yōkan was renovated and opened in 1986 by Teruhisa Kitahara, a collector, in an attempt to create a museum to display the collected tin toys. The inside of the building is a museum shop at the entrance and a museum at the back. The collection includes a variety of tin dolls, cars, airplanes, etc., mainly those made in Japan from the Meiji era to the Showa era (1890 to the 1960 s), and is on display in glass cases.

It collects, preserves and exhibits materials from writers such as Soseki Natsume and Atsushi Nakajima, who are deeply related to Kanagawa Prefecture. The exhibition room, which is divided into three rooms, displays and publishes valuable materials such as creative notes, diaries and manuscripts, love supplies, and the first edition of modern literature. There are also manuscripts and remains of Natsume Soseki, a manuscript of Akutagawa Ryūnosuke's "Spider's Thread", a painting by Atsushi Nakajima, and a manuscript of Tanizaki Junichiro's "Tojin no Love". In conjunction with the exhibition, lectures and readings are also held. Books and magazines can be viewed in the main building. It takes 60 minutes.

In 1885, a museum on the site of the Western-style theater Goethe, which was constructed in the hands of residents and staged Japan's first Shakespeare play. It was opened in 1980 by the school corporation Iwasaki Gakuen to commemorate the 50th anniversary of its founding. It exhibits Goethe-za materials, including clothing history and art nouveau glass crafts, and works by the decorator Mucha. You can also take commemorative photographs with dresses of various times, including the Shimakan period (fee: 2000 yen, time: 10 to 17 o'clock). It takes 20 minutes.

The park is designed to mimic the garden style that is often found in Italy and geometrically arrange water and flower beds. It is called "Italy Mountain" because the Italian consulate was set up from 1880 to 1886. In the shaped flower bed, you can see the planting of flowers in the four seasons. The "Bluff 18 Bankan" with a French tile roof was relocated and restored in 1993, and the "Diplomat's House" with a tongue roof was relocated and restored in 1997.

At the time of its opening, it was a foreign settlement, with British troops on a hill and French troops below, and opened in 1962. From the observatory in the park and the bench facing the sea side, you can see the Yokohama Port to MM21, Osanbashi and Yokohama Bay Bridge. The night view of the Yokohama Bay Bridge is famous. On the north side of the forest, the former French military garrison, known as the French montane, is fronted by the same arch as the Paris Central Market. Yokohama City British Museum, Yamate 111th Bankan, Daibutsu Jiro Memorial Hall, and the prefectural Kanagawa Kindai Bungakukan are also attached.