Kanagawa · Updated: 2026-10-17
Nihon-odori Station (日本大通り駅) has six walking spots around it, from a free broadcast archive and three exhibition halls to a Texas smoke BBQ restaurant, a vintage clothing shop and a liquor shop you can drink in. Three of them — the Broadcast Library, Newspark and the Yokohama Museum of EurAsian Cultures / Yokohama Museum of Urban History — are a 1-minute walk from Nihon-odori Station, and the other three are 4 minutes on foot, so the whole set fits comfortably into half a day. Note that four of the six are closed on Mondays and SDN Liquor Shop is closed on Mondays and Tuesdays, so choose your day before you go.
This guide covers 6 walking spots; 6 of them are an average 3-minute walk from the nearest station (1–4 min).
Counted from zorozoro listings when this page was generated. Walking minutes are estimates: straight-line distance to the nearest station × 1.3, at 80 m per minute.
A natural order: have lunch at Lonestar Smoke House near Yokohama Stadium (opens 11:30), then walk down Nihon-odori toward the water. Cover the Broadcast Library, Newspark and the Yokohama Museum of EurAsian Cultures / Yokohama Museum of Urban History — all within a 1-minute walk of the station — before they close at 17:00, then head out to Kaigan-dori for ESCAPE (until 19:00) and finish at SDN Liquor Shop by the Osanbashi pier (until 21:00).
Lonestar Smoke House is a Texas-style smoke BBQ restaurant that opened in 2024, using a large smoker imported from the United States, with beef brisket as its signature. It sits near Yokohama Stadium, a 4-minute walk from Nihon-odori Station. Hours are 11:30–21:30, Tuesday to Sunday, closed on Mondays, and it stays open straight through on Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays — handy if you arrive between lunch and dinner.
Broadcast Library is an archive where you can watch TV and radio programmes for free, in individual booths on the 8th floor. Applications to view close 30 minutes before the building does, so with hours of 10:00–17:00 the counter effectively stops at 16:30. It is inside the Yokohama Media and Communications Center, a 1-minute walk from the station, closed on Mondays (the next weekday if the Monday is a public holiday or a substitute holiday) and over the New Year period.
Newspark (Japan Newspaper Museum) shares the same building and is a museum of newspapers in Yokohama, the birthplace of the Japanese newspaper. The newspaper collection right inside the entrance lines up front pages chosen by papers from across the country, and the differences in each paper's character are fun to compare. Hours match the Broadcast Library at 10:00–17:00, closed on Mondays (the next weekday if that Monday is a holiday), so the two are easy to see in one stop.
Yokohama Museum of EurAsian Cultures / Yokohama Museum of Urban History is one building housing two museums: one on the cultures of Eurasia, the other on how Yokohama grew as a city. The address is 12 Nihon-odori, Naka-ku, a 1-minute walk from the station. It is open 09:30–17:00 and closed on Mondays (the next weekday if that Monday is a holiday) — half an hour earlier than its two neighbours, which makes it a good first stop on a morning walk.
ESCAPE is a vintage clothing and goods shop that opened in April 2026 next door to Sutekimegane MICHIO. The stock runs from vintage T-shirts to tools gathered from around the world, with no fixed genre. It is on the 2nd floor of the Japan Express Building at 1-1 Kaigan-dori, a 4-minute walk from the station, open 13:00–19:00 and closed on Wednesdays.
SDN Liquor Shop sits at the foot of the Osanbashi pier and is a shoe shop that doubles as a craft beer and natural wine bar. It carries a handmade Taiwanese shoe brand, and you can drink on the spot in kakuuchi style, standing in the shop. Outside food is welcome, so anything you picked up on the walk can come in with you. Hours are 13:00–21:00, Wednesday to Sunday, closed on Mondays and Tuesdays.
One last word on days of the week. On Mondays the Broadcast Library, Newspark, the Yokohama Museum of EurAsian Cultures / Yokohama Museum of Urban History and Lonestar Smoke House are all closed; SDN Liquor Shop is closed on Mondays and Tuesdays, and ESCAPE is closed on Wednesdays. All six are open only from Thursday to Sunday, so pick one of those four days if you want to walk the whole route.