Former England Nanabankan Building

Nice

An old office from the turn of the century. Could not go in but some plaques in English that explains the building history.

The exotic Western-style building, the former British No. 7, is the best place to stay at night when it is lit up.

Original Text

The former British No. 7 Building is located in front of Yamashita Park, next to Hotel Montreal Yokohama. When I stayed in Montreal Yokohama, it was next to the hotel when I went to the Marine Tower to see the night view. Even if you walk in the daytime, it seems to be a brick Western-style building that was a foreign trading company full of exotic atmosphere, and it is a suitable building such as "This is a Western-style building in Yokohama", but it is a very small building, so I overlooked it. It's a small building. Also, it is now a building owned by a new religious organization ...

Red brick Western-style building that suits Yokohama, the opening country

Original Text

A building on Yamashita Koen-dori in front of Yamashita Park, which is famous for Yokohama. It is a Western-style building that retains the remnants of a foreign settlement in Yokohama around 1922. It is said to be the only foreign commercial building that survived the Great Kanto Earthquake. It is a nice red brick Western-style building. It wasn't open because it was a closed day, so I just looked at it from the outside, but I was able to see a wonderful figure. Is such a Western-style building in Japan with many earthquakes strict in structure? It was a thing that left the great earthquake safely ...

Red brick Western building

Original Text

A red brick Western-style building along the street of Yamashita Park. Built in 1922 as the Yokohama branch of a British trading company, now exhibits atomic bomb-related materials as the "Toda Peace Memorial Hall".

A building that leaves Yokohama in the past

Original Text

The former British No. 7 Building has a Western-style red brick building that is as nice as Yokohama. A nostalgic building of red brick facing Yamashita Park. It was built as a Yokohama branch of a British trade company in 1922, and it was a building that left Yokohama in the past as the only existing building of the foreign commercial building, but it was damaged except for the appearance during the great Kanto earthquake. You can't see it.