Yokohama Red Brick Warehouse 1 in Yokohama

Yokohama Red Brick Warehouse 1 is the No. 1 building in a two-section customs warehouse complex whose working port history now sits alongside shopping, art exhibits and food festivals. If you are meeting someone at the waterfront, use “No. 1” precisely: the wider Red Brick Warehouse name refers to both Warehouse No. 1 and Warehouse No. 2.

What is Yokohama Red Brick Warehouse 1?

The building is part of the historical Yokohama Red Brick Warehouse complex at the Port of Yokohama in Naka-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan. The complex is officially known as the Newport Pier Bonded Warehouse and includes two sections, Warehouse No. 1 and Warehouse No. 2.

That means the familiar Red Brick Warehouse name does not identify one building on its own. This page concerns Building No. 1 within that pair. The complex is now used for a shopping mall, banquet hall and event venues, so the building belongs to a larger destination rather than standing as an isolated historic structure.

What is the history of Yokohama Red Brick Warehouse 1?

The warehouses were originally used as customs buildings. The twin red-brick buildings were constructed in 1911 and 1913; the available history describes those dates for the pair, not as separate dates assigned to No. 1.

The port setting shaped what happened inside and around these buildings. The sourced tour description connects the warehouses with silk crates, steamships, cargo cranes and international commerce. Those details place the red-brick walls within a functioning trading waterfront, where goods arrived by ship and merchants negotiated business around the movement of cargo.

You can find that customs-house background alongside the building's present-day role in Yokohama's Futuristic Fantasy, which uses the warehouse as one stop in its account of the city.

What can you find at Yokohama Red Brick Warehouse 1 today?

Today, the complex has been repurposed as a cultural destination, combining its shopping, banquet and event uses with contemporary activities. The tour material names avant-garde art exhibits and food festivals as examples of what now takes place behind the enduring red walls.

For your waterfront visit, look for the overlap rather than treating the building as only a preserved customs site: its identity comes from the former port function and the modern cultural programming occupying the same complex. The contrast is concrete—silk-crate commerce, steamships and cargo cranes belong to its earlier setting, while art exhibits and food festivals describe its current use.

In Yokohama's Futuristic Fantasy, the warehouse is stop 7 of 10. Keep the No. 1 designation in mind as you explore, so your notes and meeting point refer to the specific building rather than the wider two-building complex.