Harbor View Park, Scenic park in Yamatechō, Japan

Harbor View Park is a 5.7-hectare park stretching north-south on a hill in Yamate, Naka-ku, Yokohama, overlooking the Port of Yokohama. It contains the English Rose Garden with about 150 varieties and 800 rose plants, the British House, the Osaragi Jiro Memorial Hall, and the French Hill area with a windmill and remains of the old French consulate. A long pergola with green trellis panels stands above a broad stone staircase.

The park was founded in 1962 and marked a key moment in Yokohama's urban development by creating public access to the harbor district. This development helped reshape the waterfront and opened the maritime area to everyone.

The park is named after the 1948 hit song "Minato no Mieru Oka" by Tatsumi Azuma, and a monument with the song's lyrics stands on the grounds. Each May the English Rose Garden, holding about 150 varieties and 800 bushes, joins Yokohama Rose Week with the rose gardens of Yamashita Park and the Italian Mountain Garden. The park also appears in the TV drama "Abunai Deka" and in Off Course's song "Aki no Kehai."

The nearest station is Motomachi-Chukagai on the Minatomirai Line, about a 7-minute walk, but it requires climbing the steep Yatozaka slope. From JR Ishikawacho Station the walk takes roughly 20 minutes. The park is long and narrow from north to south, so allow time to move between the rose garden, the French Hill area and the lookout.

The park's name comes from the 1948 hit song "Minato no Mieru Oka" by Tatsumi Azuma, a Kobe resident, so the tune is also linked to that port city. A song monument stands in the grounds, and the park opened on 25 October 1962 with the melody playing during the tape-cutting by the mayor.