Spread before you now is the living face of a city that has been broken and reborn countless times across more than one hundred and sixty years. The Yokohama…
Multilingual AI audio guide exhibit on WOUDiO (PWA). WOUDiO pioneered the world’s first audio guide platform with built-in donation: listeners can support the cultural venue without leaving the listening experience. The text below is the localized description, details, and narration script for this audio guide stop.
Spread before you now is the living face of a city that has been broken and reborn countless times across more than one hundred and sixty years.
The Yokohama Bay Bridge arches gracefully across the mouth of Tokyo Bay, while far below, the greenery of
Yamashita Park ribbons along the waterfront. Beyond it, the dark hull of the
Hikawa Maru floats in quiet repose, and in the opposite direction, the towers of
Minato Mirai glitter against the sky. Yet barely forty years ago, that same horizon was crowded with the great cranes of a shipyard. Every scene visible from this observation floor holds a story, waiting to be told. Look around you. You may notice that certain glass pillars bear questions — questions etched there as invitations. "Were there ships that could never pass beneath that bridge?" "What was the very first thing to come ashore?" They are questions that feel slightly mysterious, and just a little irresistible. Hold your smartphone up to the QR code beside any question that catches your eye, and the answer will come to you in sound — along with the hidden story of that place. There is no need to listen in any particular order. Begin wherever your curiosity leads you. Yokohama is a place layered like strata of time — culture carried in from across the sea folded together, again and again, with the daily lives of those who have always called this land home. The excitement of the opening of the port. The devastation of earthquake and wartime fire. And each time, the will of the people who rose again from the ruins. This observation floor has borne witness to all of it. Now, step closer to one of the glass pillars and find the first question that speaks to you. Your own story of Yokohama begins here.
Facility: Yokohama Marine Tower Observation Floor
Location: 15 Yamashitacho, Naka-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa
Height: Approx. 106 m (observation floor approx. 94 m)
Opened: 1961 (reopened after renovation in 2022)
Guide format: QR code–activated audio guide
