8 Gardens & Parks Yamate No.234 Tomoko Kamishima A private enterprise built an apartment house at Yamate No.234 for the purpose of coaxing back foreigners to devastated Yokohama,..
Historical Kamakura Kencho-ji Temple in Spring Tomoko Kamishima Kencho-ji Temple was established as the first Zen-only training monastery in Japan starting in the late 1200s. In those days, there..
Historical Yokohama's Kyu-Yagishita-Tei House Yumi Imai Kyu-Yagishita-Tei is a sophisticated old Japanese house originally built for a wealthy merchant and now designated a tangible cultural..
8 Gardens & Parks British Consular Residence Tomoko Kamishima The reinforced concrete building next to Minato-no-mieru-oka Koen Park used to be the British Consular Residence in Yokohama. It..
Historical Hokoku-ji Temple, Kamakura Clifford Bernstein Hokokuji Temple in Kamakura, famous as the resting place of the Ashikaga Shogun and its elegant bamboo forest.
Historical Kaisei-machi Ajisai Matsuri Sandra Isaka Kaisei-machi's Ajisai Matsuri, usually held in the second week of June, is a wonderful festival of hydrangea, newly planted..
8 Historical The Diplomat’s House Tomoko Kamishima "The Diplomat’s House" is so lovely at dusk. The house was built in Shibuya, Tokyo in 1910 and then rebuilt in Yokohama's ..
6 Historical Yamate No.68 Tomoko Kamishima Yamate No.68 stands inside Yamate Koen Park, where the history of tennis began in Japan. Yokohama City later purchased the house..