Yokohama Archives of History

The Yokohama Archives of History (横浜開港資料館 Yokohama Kaikō Shiryōkan) in Naka ward, central Yokohama near Yamashita Park is a repository for many precious archive materials on Japan and the foreign connection with Japan since the arrival of Commodore Matthew Perry in 1853. The archives are next to Kaiko Hiroba (Port Opening Square) where Commodore Perry landed to sign the Convention of Kanagawa.

The archives are housed in a newly built annex to the former British Consulate building. The British Consulate building, which replaced the former consulate building destroyed in the 1923 Great Kantō earthquake, was completed in 1931 and used as a consulate until 1972. The ground floor of the former consulate building is open to the public and there is a small exhibition room which is free. There are plaques in the consulate commemorating consulate employees who died in the Great Kanto earthquake as well as British sailors who died during the British Bombardment of Kagoshima in 1863. The British Court for Japan, under the British Supreme Court for China and Japan sat in the consulate compound from 1879 to 1900. Prior to that the British Provincial Court for Kanagawa sat in the compound from 1865 to 1878.

Yokohama Archives of History : 横浜開港資料館 / naitokz

WebSite:

Name : Yokohama Archives of History

Category : Culture/History

Website : http://www.kaikou.city.yokohama.jp/en/index.html

TEL : 045-201-2100

Area : Kanagawa (Kanto)

Address : 3 Nihonodori Naka-ku Yokohama-shi 231-0021
〒231-0021 神奈川県横浜市中区日本大通3
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