General Information• Opening hours: 10:00 ~17:00 * It may vary depending on season.
• Closures: Monday (Tuesday if Sunday or Monday is public holiday), year-endholidays and other temporary closing.
Admission
Combo Ticket (Group)¥600 (¥500)¥400 (¥300)¥300 (¥200)

Adults
65 years & overElementary,junior high andhigh school students

Single Ticket (Group)¥400 (¥350)¥250 (¥200)¥200 (¥150)

Special discounted rate of ¥100 on Saturdays

Yanagihara Ryohei Ar t Museum• The combo ticket is available to see both of Sail Training Ship NIPPON MARU and Yokohama Port Museum.
• The single ticket is available for either Sail Training Ship NIPPON MARU or Yokohama Port Museum.
• Seniors (65 years and older) with Hamatomo card are eligible for the group discount rate.
• The Group rate is available for 20 or more paying guests (elementary school students or above).
• Special combo ticket rate of ¥100 for elementary, junior high and high school students on Saturdays."This special discounted rate will be used to preserve the Sail Training Ship NIPPON MARU for its centennial.
• Special exhibitions may require a separate admission fee.

Sail Training Ship NIPPON MARU
JR Yokohama
Line

SotetsuLine

ShinYokohama

Yoko
Subwhama Mun
ay-Bluice Lineipal

Nakayama

Yamanote Line

ToyokoLine

Shibuya

Hiyoshi

KikunaYokohama

Shinagawa Tokyo

JR Keihin-Tohoku Line
JR Tokaido Line
Keihinkyuko Line

Sakuragicho
NegishiLine

Sail Training Ship NIPPON MARU was built in 1930
as a training ship for cadets. The ship brought up 11,500 cadetsfor 54 years until her retirement as a training ship in 1984.
During her service, NIPPON MARU logged 45.4 times around theearth (1,830,000 kilometers in total). The ship was placed under
the authority of the City of Yokohama in 1984 and has been
open to the public since 1985.
NIPPON MARU is also used for a full-sail exhibit incooperation with volunteers and provides marine educational
programs to students.

Access Guide
Yokohama Municipal
Subway -Green Line

Keikyu Kamata

Minatomirai
Bashamichi

HanedaAirportMinatomirai LineJRNational Important Cultural Property

Minatomirai Line

Kishamichi
Promenade

Minatomirai Sta. Queen's

SquareYOKOHAMA

Yokohama
Museumof Art

Nippon Maru
Memorial Park
Yokohama Port Museum
Sail Training
Ship NIPPON
MARU

LandmarkTowerMoving

To
Yokohama

JR Negishi Line

Yanagihara Ryohei Art Museum
BashamichiSta.

WalkwayBus Terminal

Yokohama Municipal Subway-Blue LineSouth Gate
East Exit

Sakuragicho Sta.
Sakuragicho Sta.

To Kannai

Access by Train• 5 minutes walk from Sakuragicho Station on JR Negishi Line orYokohama Municipal Subway-Blue Line• 5 minutes walk from Minatomirai Station or Bashamichi Station on Minatomirai Line• Approx. 40 minutes from Haneda Airport Station• Approx. 35 minutes from Tokyo Station• Approx. 15 minutes from Shin-Yokohama Station

Access by CarApprox. 0.5km from Minatomirai Exit of Metropolitan Expressway Yokohane Line
When you visit by tour bus or in wheel chair, please refer to the Museum staff.
Please use public transportation.

MEMORIAL FOUNDATION OF SAIL TRAINING SHIP “NIPPON MARU”— Jtb Communication Design JV
2-1-1 Minato Mirai, Nishi-Ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa 220-0012 JapanTEL 045-221-0280(Main•Group reservation) FAX 045-221-0277
http://www.nippon-maru.or.jp/Apr. 2018

Enjoy various unique events!

A fantastic place to join and learn

Sail Training Ship NIPPON MARU andYokohama Port Museum are located inNippon Maru Memorial Park ofthe Minato Mirai 21 District.
The Park was converted from the dockyard
into a waterfront park by the City of
Yokohama in 1985.

Yokohama Port Museum
Yokohama Port Museum is the first museum featuring
the Port of Yokohama.
In April 2009, the Museum was totally remodeled from
Yokohama Maritime Museum (opened in 1989) by the 150th
Anniversary of the Port Opening Commemorative Project.
Under the theme of “Port of Yokohama in history and life”,
the exhibits focus on the history, operation and role of
the Port of Yokohama.
The Museum also provides special exhibitions, lectures,tours and craft classes.
In the spring of 2018, “Yanagihara Ryohei Art Museum”
opened for permanent exhibitions.

Full-sail Exhibition
Nearly a hundred volunteers
unfurl NIPPON MARU’s 29 sails.
The exhibitions are held about 12
times a year.

Marine Educational
Programs

Full-dress ship
The ship is “dressed” byinternational signal flags incelebration of a festive occasion.

Through an orderly group life
aboard the sail training ship,children can cultivate cooperativeness and mental strength.

NIPPON MARU Guide TourFree guided tour of the ship by
volunteers who were engaged intall ship NIPPON MARU.

Craft Class and Port TourWe offer ship craft classes andport tours for children.

Brass band concert
Performed by students andamateur musicians.

Flea Market
Parent & Child Program!
Let's unfurl the sail!

Paper folding class to learn aship fold and Quiz rally for kids
Held every Saturday !
(with exceptions)

Sea Kayaking Class

Paper craft class
Held every Sunday and holidays!
(with exceptions)Learn how to make a paper craft ship.

In case of bad weather, events will be changed or cancelled.

Restaurant Cafe

Citizen volunteers will give you
guidance of the museum plainlyand attractively.

Find your treasures!

Enjoy a memorable experience
unfurling a massive sail of
NIPPON MARU.

Enjoy the water sport in
Minato Mirai !

Yokohama Port MuseumattendantA cozy restaurant with the best viewof the magnificent Sail Training ShipNIPPON MARU

Museum Shop
There are many popular souvenirs suchas Sail Training Ship NIPPON MARU
Choro-Q pullback toy car, NIPPONMARU booklet, and Yanagihara Ryohei
original art goods. (lithograph, postage
stamp,etc.)
Sail Training Ship NIPPON MARU Choro-Q

For library-only visitors(The Library is free when you have the Museum ticket.)
Opening hours and Closures are same as for Yokohama Port Museum.
Entry fee: ¥100

The Museum accepts donations ofappropriate library items on ports and ships.
• Photos, videos, paintings and documents that indicate port sceneries,
workers and ships.
• Tools, clothes, drawings and machines used for working at ports and ships.
• Books, magazines, guide pamphlets on ports, ships, shipping and sailings.

Barrier- free Information
For visitors with disabilities
Yokohama Port Museum: Slopes, elevators and ostomates-accessible
restrooms are available. Visitors in wheelchairs and with assistancedogs can enter the Museum.
Sail Training Ship NIPPON MARU: Visitors in wheelchair and withassistance dogs are only available for the long poop deck because ofthe ship's structure.
For visitors with small children• Diaper changing tables are available in the restrooms such as themulti-purpose restroom on the first floor of the Museum.
• For nursing babies, please use a space beside of general information
desk on the first floor of the Museum.
• When visiting NIPPON MARU, baby carriages are kept at the entrance.
Baby carriages can be brought inside the Museum.

You can see inside the ship and will learn about theliving history and sea training of NIPPON MARU
with photos, rooms and equipment of the crew at thetime when they sailed across the ocean.

Permanent Exhibits consist of two zones; “Port ofYokohama History Zone” and “Port of Yokohama
Rediscover Zone”. The History Zone looks back at
the seven periods of the 150 years of the Port’s
history and the Rediscovery Zone explores thesystem and role of the Port through different
themes such as Port Construction,
Harbor Transportation, Marine
The War andthe Requisition
Transport and Living &The Great Kanto
Earthquake and the Rise
Rapid Economic
from the Devastation
Growth and Port
Environment.
Beginning Development
Construction ofPortof theThe
Museumalso hasthe Modern Port
Construction
HarborContainerization
Transportation
The Opening Days ofEra
About the Portan extensive maritime
Yokohama Port
Enhancement of
Entrance toInternationalreference library.
the Permanent
Competitiveness
Exhibition

Route
You can look inside fromeach window.

Fore navigation
bridgeAft compass
bridgeMast
Lifeboat
Flyinggangway

Lifeboat

Lifeboat

Disasterprevention center(Guards room)

Mainmast

Cadet’s entrance
Skylight

Chart room

No.2
Hatch gate

Fore mast

Skylight Mizzen
mastFunnel

Bowsprit

1

Lifeboat

Jiggermast
SkylightRadioroom

Escalator

Hood6

Lifeboat

Forecastle Deck

Entrance fromthe Yokohama Port
Museum side

Library

Information
counter

Elevator

Audio visualboothSpecial Exhibition
Room

Lifeboat

Shipbuilding & Marine
Ship Repair
Transport
Living &Environment

Port of Yokohama
History Zone

Exit

Entrance from the Landmark Tower side5

Captain’s Captain’s
day roomroom

No.1 lectureroom

Long Poop Deck

Port of Yokohama
Rediscover Zone

Captain’sbathroom

Special Exhibition Room
LibraryChiefofficer'sroom

Emergency exit

Chief radio
officer’s room

Third officer’sroom

Anchorwindlass

Yanagihara Ryohei
Art Museum

Officer’ssaloon

Escalator

No.1 Hatch gate
Doctor’s Purser’s
officeroom

Galley2

B1F Tothe Permanent
Exhibition
Yanagihara Ryohei
Art Museum

Officer’spantry

3

No.1 oiler’sroom

Cadet’sroom

4 Engine room

Cadets’ quarters

Shop
Restaurant Cafe

Arena

Hospital

Gross tonnage
2,278 tons
Length over all(including bowsprit) 97 m
Breadth13 m

Entrance

Entrance

Nurse'sroom

Operation simulator of shipin Yokohama port

Port of Yokohama History Zone
Kind of ship Sailing ship(Four-masted barque)
PurposeTraining shipComplement 138 persons

OfficeSlope

GeneralInformation

Gyroroom

Exhibition Engine crew’s
room mess room

Second Deck

Slope
Elevator

Cook’sroom

Dispensary

Cadet’sroom

Ticket Counter

Slope

Upper Deck

Well Deck

Aerial photoof the Portof Yokohama

Average draft
5.3 m
Number of sails 29 sails
46 m from the water surface
Mast height

The full-scale simulator that allows you to
discover how to maneuver and bring themajor cruise ship into the real image ofthe Port of Yokohama.

Screw pile used

2 for Osanbashi

A cast iron screw pile that
supported Osanbashi
Pier for nearly a hundredyears since 1894 .

2 Osanbashi PierOsanbashi Pier in 1897-1907.
The first pier constructed in
the Port of Yokohama.

3 Folding fan with autographsof American baseball players

The folding fan with autographs of Babe Ruth
and other American baseball players who visited
Japan on passenger ship in 1934. It was given
to a Yokohama quarantine officer.

1 Time bell

2 Belaying pins

3 Cadet’s room

The bell was struck every half-hourby the watch on duty. Each watch
would take its turn at eight bells.

All the ropes for manipulating sails
are secured to the bars called“belaying pins”.

Although the room is too small toaccommodate 8 persons, it is a
cozy place for cadets to relax.

3 Cargo-passenger ship ARGENTINA MARU model
1939 A typical cargo-passenger ship on the South Americaand Around-the-World routes before WW II.

5 Crude oil tanker TOKYO MARU model

1966 Large tanker that was constructed in Yokohama
during the rapid economic growth period.

Port of Yokohama Rediscover Zone
1 About the Port

4 Diesel engines

5 Captain’s day room

6 Steering wheel

There are large-sized diesel
engines that boast an incomparable track record and was the firstof its type made in Japan.

The room is used to receive visitors
and listen to the reports fromofficers.

The steering wheel is used forcontrolling the ship in accordancewith the condition of the sails, so that
it is located at the end of the ship.

Profile of the PortYou can learn about the Port by touching
the large multi-touch screen.

A waterfront park with gently-sloping lawns(rooftop of Yokohama Port Museum)
overlooking the port.
Concerts and events are held at the arena.
Kishamichi PromenadeTo
Shinko District (Yokohama World Porters,
Red Brick Warehouses)

To
Minatomirai LineBashamichi
Station8
Training center(Meeting room)

Water bus terminal
Pier NIPPON MARU

Entrance3
Shinko District

9 Lawn square

Entrance
Entrance Tickets

To
Sakuragicho
Station1
Boarding
Gate

Sea Kayak
Desk

5Tickets

7

Sea Kayak Park

Moving Walkway

Tower bldg.
To
Pukari-sanbashi Pier,
Rinko Park, Pacifico Yokohama

Queen’s Square YOKOHAMATo
Minatomirai Line
Minatomirai Station

In the spring of 2018, “Yanagihara Ryohei ArtMuseum” opened for permanent exhibitions inour museum. He is known as a famous
illustrator for his original character Uncle Torys.
This exhibition introduce his illustration, graphic
design, animation, books, oil painting andlithograph.

4Shop
Restaurant Stage
Cafe
ExitTower bldg.

writer Shin Hasegawa

Vanning
Enjoy the reproduction of the operation
at the port.

No.1 Dock

Arena Boarding
Gate

66

5 Literary monument toShin Hasegawa(1884-1963) was bornin Yokohama and worked as an errandboy at the Dock No.2 construction site
in his boyhood.

Minami Honmoku MC-3
Container Terminal Model
The section introduces the construction
and structure of the Minami Honmoku
container terminal.

3 Harbor Transportation

129

Why don’t you relax on the open
green lawns? The square is locatedon the rooftop of Yokohama PortMuseum.

To
Sakuragicho
Station on
JR Negishi Line or
Yokohama Municipal
Subway-Blue Line

2 Port Construction

Landmark Tower

6 Yokohama Dock Company, Ltd.
Drainage pump cover for No.1
and No.2 Docks

Poster for
Torys whisky1896 Manufactured by W.H.Allen, Son& CO. Ltd (England)
Introduced for the time of thefoundation of the dockyard (founded in1899) and used for nearly 85 years.

Suntory Holdings
Limited 1961

7 Foundation Stone for

Minato Mirai 21 Project
The foundation stonewhich had beenanchored in the sea atthe cornerstone-laying
ceremony to pray for thesafety of construction
and commemorate thestart of the constructionin 1984 was laterreclaimed and placed
here.

Uncle Torys andYanagihara Ryohei
1970s

1 Yokohama Dock Company,

2 Topgallant mast from Sail

3 Screw propeller from Sail

4 Yokohama Dock Company,

1918 Manufactured by Chicago
Pneumatic Tool Company (U.S.A.)
Introduced in the time of Taisho
Period (1912-1926) when Yokohama
Dock Company, Ltd. entered into theshipbuilding business.

The upper section of the main mast
made of hinoki cypress. It wasused for 40 years since ship refit in1952.

1929 Kawasaki Shipbuilding
Corporation (Kobe)

Constructed in 1898.
It is a dry dock for ship repair andhad been used until 1982. Important
Cultural Property designated by theNational Government.

Ltd. Air compressor

Training Ship NIPPON
MARU

Training Ship NIPPON
MARU

It may be closed temporarily onsome occasions.

Ltd. No.1 Dock

9 Training center
Available for meetings and seminars.
(Advance reservations and payment
are required.)

Poster for Yokohama
1981