Minato Mirai pier (subject to change)
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[ Address ]
Minatomirai 1, Nishi-ku, Yokohama
[ Public transportations ]
5 minutes walk from Minato Mirai station of Minato Mirai Line.
Or 15 minutes walk from Sakuragi Cho station of JR/Yokohama municipal subway
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In 1881,
King David Kalakaua was the first state leader to meet with Emperor Meiji after the opening of Japan. The two heads of state saw the importance of building global relationships and the value of cultural exchanges. Kalakaua requested and Meiji signed an agreement in 1885 allowing the
immigration of Japanese workers to Hawai'i. therefore Hokule'a had chosen Yokohama as the final destination of this voyage.
Now some events are being planned.
☆Welcome ceremony
☆Reception party with crewmembers
☆Lectures by crewmembers
☆Canoe tour
☆School visiting
☆Workshops
☆Pray for safe voyage.
☆Respect the nature of our homeland.
☆Promote the friendship with our neighbors.
Hokule'a departed the Big Island in January. Then she sailed through Micronesia and now in Nippon Archipelago. Stops in Japan are Itoman of Okinawa, Uto of Kumamoto, Nagasaki, Fukuoka, Suo-Oshima of Yamaguchi, Hiroshima, Uwajima and Yokohama. Okinawa, Kumamoto, Fukuoka, Yamaguchi and Hiroshima had sent a considerable number of emigrants to Hawai'i. Stops at Nagasaki and Hiroshima are for the memorial of the tragedy of the Atomic Bombs. In Uwajima, Hokule'a will make a memorial ceremony for Ehime-maru, the training ship tragically sunk in the offshore of Honolulu. The final destination is Yokohama, where King Kalakaua had visited in 1881 to start the cultural exchange between Japan and Hawai'i.
| ●Okinawa |
arrival-April 24, departure-April 29. |
| ●Kumamoto |
arrival-May 4, departure-May 7. |
| ●Nagasaki |
arrival-May 7, departure-May 11. |
| ●Fukuoka |
arrival-May 11, departure-May 19. |
| ●Yamaguchi |
arrival-May 20. departure-May 23. |
| ●Hiroshima |
arrival-May 24. |
| ●Ehime |
arrival-May 28. departure-June 4. |
| ●Yokohama |
arrival-June 9. |
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※Schedules are
subject to change.
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