Kanagawa Prefectural Museum of Cultural History

Yokohama


Housed in the grand former Yokohama Specie Bank building (c1904) is this rather scholarly history museum charting the course of Kanagawa Prefecture from neolithic times through to the opening up of the city's port to the West.


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