"Unique Side of Yokohama" has just been issued!

The special feature provides you with local information about Yokohama with unique viewpoints. It includes off the beaten track spots which you would not be able to find in tourist guidebooks. In this issue, we feature "KENCHIKU JOSHI." The number of young stylish woman who enjoy their favorite style has been increasing. KENCHIKU JOSHI is one of them. By visiting historical buildings and modern constructions designed by famous architects with a camera in their hands, KENCHIKU JOSHI enjoys finding special values in such buildings and being sentimental to them. KENCHIKU JOSHIs are very excited with the exotic buildings in Yokohama including modern and western style buildings in Kannai and Yamate, which were foreign settlements at the time of the opening of Yokohama port. But other than these national treasure level of buildings, there are many more attractive buildings in hidden places in the city. Notably, Hodogaya, a then post town of Tokaido, has beautiful buildings built in modern times. Let's begin a sight-seeing tour of buildings in the unknown side of Yokohama at Nishiya Water Purifi cation Plant.