Beginning with sewerage

With the opening of Yokohama in 1859 (1859), the aspect of Yokohama, which was just a small fishing village, changed completely. Starting with the construction of wharfs and the development of settlements, town development as an open port has begun.

Due to its nature as a contact point with foreign countries, various technologies and artifacts that could be said to be the most advanced at that time were brought to Yokohama. Even today, you can still see those features in various parts of the city.

The origin of modern sewerage in Yokohama also began with the development of foreign settlement.

Main Street for Foreign Residents in the middle of the Meiji period (from Yokohama Archives of History)

• Improvement of sewerage in foreign settlement
• Map of foreign settlement
• Sewerage from the Meiji era