Enjoy the history and mystery of Yokohama at the newly renovated Yokohama Tram Museum!

The Yokohama City Tram Museum is located in Takigashira, Isogo Ward, Yokohama, along the Horiwari River on National Route 16 heading from Kannai in Yokohama towards Isogo.

This place used to be the site of the Takigashira Tramway Factory, but now it is the Takigashira Bus Depot of the Yokohama Municipal Bus Company, and the first floor of the adjacent municipal housing complex is the Tramway Museum. It's quite unusual to have a museum with a residential building on top.

What's in the Yokohama Tram Museum?

Currently, seven carriages are preserved here, and you can freely enter each one, sit in the driver's seat, touch the wooden handrails, and enjoy the retro atmosphere.

The little ones had a blast pretending to drive in the driver's seat!

This cream-colored vehicle with blue lines also appeared in the film "From Up on Poppy Hill" (produced by Studio Ghibli, 2011), which is set in Yokohama in 1963.

The old tram cars have a classic interior and a lovely atmosphere that could easily be renovated into a small bar.

This is the interior of a relatively new vehicle.
The floor is made of wood, but it's similar to the interiors of modern trains and buses. This is still quite retro, but in comparison, the older cars look more luxurious.

It's not just trains that are on display. N-gauge and 0-gauge railway dioramas have also been renovated, and new trains are running in the N-gauge.