Yokohama Curry Museum, Culinary museum in Isezakicho, Yokohama, Japan.
The Yokohama Curry Museum was a culinary museum in Isezakicho, Yokohama, dedicated to Japanese curry, combining several restaurants with an exhibition space. The venue spanned multiple floors and offered dining areas alongside displays exploring regional curry varieties and their preparation.
The museum opened in January 2001, combining culinary offerings with exhibition space in a centrally located building. After six years of operation, it closed permanently in March 2007.
The museum's name reflects the arrival of curry in Japan through Yokohama port during the Meiji era. Visitors could trace how sailors and traders brought the dish from India via England to Japan, and how it evolved into a distinct recipe here.
The museum occupied the 7th and 8th floors of the former Marui Isezaki building at 1-2-3 Isezakicho, Naka Ward; floors 1 to 6 housed the PIA pachinko parlour and arcade. It stood about 200 metres along Bashamichi from the north exit of Kannai Station. The entrance was decorated in an Indian style, and the interior was laid out as a recreation of Yokohama's port in the Taisho era, with a passenger-ship deck and a merchants' street.
The eighth floor housed a reconstructed ship cabin with working Morse code equipment, showing life and communication aboard merchant vessels. Visitors could try the devices and send simple messages.
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