Shimoda History Museum
museum
下田開国博物館
Museum marking Commodore Perry's Black Ships arrival ending Japan's centuries of self-imposed isolation.
After hundreds of years of self-imposed isolation, Commodore Matthew Perry and his Black Ships sailed into Japanese waters, demanding the country open to trade. This museum marks the catalytic events of the 1850s that led to a period of rapid Westernization in Japan, of which Shimoda was at the epicenter.
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