The silhouetted woman climbed up the staircase in the central hall of Minato City Local History Museum

Central hall in Minato City Local History Museum

I entered the Minato City Local History Museum. As the name suggests, this museum introduces the lives of people in the Minato Ward area from the Jomon period to the modern era. Shirokanedai, where the museum is located, is on a plateau, close to the sea at Shinagawa. It has been a suitable place for human habitation for a long time. The museum allows visitors to trace the history of the area.

Each of the exhibits has a written explanation and video presentations. Although the museum is not very large, it is a very comprehensive museum that will take you quite some time if you take your time to look around the exhibits. But it was not the exhibits that attracted me the most. What attracted me most was the building itself.

The stone building, built about 80 years ago, has a stately atmosphere not only from the outside but also inside. The central hall on the second floor, with its atrium, is particularly impressive. When I stepped into the hall, I felt as if I was in a European mansion. I stopped in the center of the hall to admire the decorations, when a female visitor appeared. She walked past me and steadily climbed the stairs.

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