The Yokohama City Tram was affectionately known as the "Chin Chin Train" and served as a vital means of transportation for the city's residents for approximately 70 years, from 1904 to 1972.
The Yokohama City Tram Museum has preserved and exhibited seven of these Yokohama City Trams in the same condition as they were back then.In addition, there are historical exhibits that teach about the development of Yokohama and the history of transportation, a tram simulator where you can experience driving a tram, O-gauge and N-gauge railway dioramas, and a collection of precious handmade O-gauge model trains, making this a facility where people of all ages can learn while having fun.
Inside the museum, seven streetcars, stop signs, and paving stones have been preserved in their original state, allowing visitors to feel the "time" and "atmosphere" of the time when the streetcars were in operation.
The history exhibition corner, with the theme of "Yokohama's Development and Transportation," provides easy-to-understand explanations of the reclamation of Yoshida Shinden, which was the foundation of Yokohama's development, the opening of the Port of Yokohama, the Great Kanto Earthquake, postwar reconstruction, the heyday of the streetcars and their closure, the six major projects that formed the basis of Yokohama's subsequent urban planning, and the transition to the subway.
