Harbor View Hill Park ( = Minato no mieru oka koen), or Harbor View Park as it is usually called in English, is a

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on the

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Naka-ku, Yokohama is one of the 18 wards of the city of Yokohama in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. In 2010, the ward had an estimated population of 146,563 and a population density of 7,080 persons per km². The total area was 20.86 km². Geography Naka Ward i ...

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, looking over the

Port of Yokohama The is operated by the Port and Harbor Bureau of the City of Yokohama in Japan. It opens onto Tokyo Bay. The port is located at a latitude of 35.27–00°N and a longitude of 139.38–46°E. To the south lies the Port of Yokosuka; to the north ...

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Soon after the

opened for foreign trade in 1859, the site of Harbor View Park was the location of the British Consul’s Residence. Between 1862 and 1875 the location also served as part of the camp for the British military garrison. Rebuilt in 1937, the British Consul’s Residence remained in use as Crown Property until 1969 until the building and surrounding gardens were returned to the City of Yokohama and turned into 72-hectare

. The name of Harbor View Hill Park comes from a popular song of the same name, with the words and music by Tatsumi Azuma ( 東辰三). He was a resident of

Kobe Kobe ( , ; officially , ) is the capital city of Hyōgo Prefecture Japan. With a population around 1.5 million, Kobe is Japan's seventh-largest city and the third-largest port city after Tokyo and Yokohama. It is located in Kansai region, whic ...

, another port city, so the song is also known as related to Kobe. Inside Harbor View Park are found: a rose garden, a large fountain, the British House, the 111 Yamate House, the Osaragi Jiro Memorial Hall, the KKR Porthill Yokohama Hotel, the Yokohama Meteorological Observatory, and the Kanagawa Museum of Modern Literature.Harbor_View_Park_[Minato-no-Mieru_Oka_Koen
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(Kanagawa Prefecture)/ref> Across the street from Yokohama Harbor View Park is the main campus of Yokohama International School. The historic Foreign Cemetery, Yokohama Foreign General Cemetery is also located nearby and the area is one of Yokohama#Tourist attractions, Yokohama's most popular tourist destinations.

Transportation

The nearest stations to Yokohama Harbor View Park are: Ishikawacho Station of the JR Keihin–Tōhoku Line and

Motomachi-Chūkagai Station is an underground railway station on the Minatomirai Line subway in Naka-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, operated by the third-sector railway operating company Yokohama Minatomirai Railway Company. It is numbered "MM06", and its off ...

of the

Minatomirai Line The Minatomirai 21 Line (みなとみらい21線 ''Minato-mirai-21-sen''), commonly known as the Minatomirai Line (みなとみらい線 ''Minatomirai-sen''), is a subway line in Yokohama, Japan that runs from Yokohama Station to Motomachi-Chūk ...

References

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{{Commonscat, Harbor View Park (Yokohama)
Official site (Yokohama City)
in Japanese Parks and gardens in Yokohama Tourist attractions in Yokohama

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