New passenger ship terminal opens at Yokohama Port
A new passenger ship terminal with commercial facilities and hotels was completed and opened on the 31st in Yokohama Port, where many luxury passenger ships call from Japan and overseas.
Opened at Shinko Pier in Naka-ku, Yokohama, is a complex facility “Yokohama Hammerhead” that includes a new passenger ship terminal at the third port in Yokohama Port.
The name was first established in Shinko Wharf in Taisho era in Japan, and the huge crane “Hammerhead”, which is the symbol of the wharf, originated. It was.
The new facility is a five-story building with a commercial facility and hotel on the theme of “food” in addition to the cruise ship terminal.
There are many luxury cruise ships at Yokohama Port from all over the year throughout the year, and the luxury terminal “Diamond Princess” with a total tonnage exceeding 110,000 tons is scheduled to enter the finished terminal on the 4th of next month. The
In addition, next year's large holiday will be the first time that six luxury passenger ships will be docked at the same time in Japan.
Nobuhiro Okada, President of the Shinko Wharf Terminal, said, “This is the first facility in Japan that combines a passenger terminal with full-scale commercial facilities and hotels.