Yokohama Maritime Museum

A maritime museum at Yokohama, Japan, opened in 1989 and reopened in 2009 as the Yokohama Port Museum within the Nippon Maru Memorial Park. Its flagship holding is the Nippon Maru, a four-masted barque launched 1930 that served as a sail-training ship for Japanese merchant-marine cadets until 1984, now preserved afloat in a former dry dock. Exhibits cover the history of the Port of Yokohama since its 1859 opening to foreign trade.