Yokohama No. 2 Joint Government Office Building

Beautiful Old Red Brick Building

The original building was opened in 1896 as the Yokohama Raw Inspection Laboratory and established to improve the quality of raw silk manufactured in Japan. It was damaged in the Great Earthquake and...

Xinyi High-rise Building の Low-level Part に Old Shengyu Investigation Office の Foreign External が Re-yuan

Original Text

From the time of its opening to the 1950s, Yokohama Port flourished as an export port for raw silk. At that time, freight train tracks were drawn, raw silk was directly carried from northern Kanto and Koshinetsu to the warehouse, and it was inspected at the raw silk inspection station and exported to various countries around the world. The first raw silk inspection office was built in 1896 (Meiji 29) on Honmachi-dori, where the Yokohama District Public Prosecutors Office is currently located, but was devastated by the Great Kanto Earthquake in 1923 (Taisho 12). In 1926 (Taisho 15), The second raw silk inspection office is kitanaka Dori Kita ...

Yokohama looks good

Original Text

Speaking of public buildings in Yokohama, the image of ginkgo and red brick is strong. It used to be an old building, but now it is cleaned with its exterior and has the inside (this is the back) as the latest building. This is very good. When you enter from the front, you feel that you naturally switch your feelings.

Retro architecture

Original Text

The "Former Yokohama Raw Silk Inspection Center" is an annex to the Second Joint Government Building in the commonly known as the Kitanaka district. It was established in 1926 (T15) for the purpose of better quality control with the raw silk trade as a trading port for a long time. The current horizontal long red brick building was completed in 1993 (H5) as a replica. Currently, the nameplate of "KITANAKA BRICK & WHITE" at the adjacent Kitanaka Tower is displayed.

A building that tells the history of Yokohama.

Original Text

A building that used to be a raw silk inspection station. Yokohama used to be a port for raw silk, and it can be seen that raw silk was an important export product as a result of such a splendid building.