Tourist attraction-cum-floating restaurant “Hikawa Maru” (氷川丸) at at Yamshita Park, Yokohama, in August 1971
Builder: Yokohama Dock Co., Yokohama, Japan
Gross tonnage (as built): 11,622
Overall length: 163.3 m
Engines: 2 x Burmeister & Wain diesels
Completed May 1930 as passenger-cargo liner “Hikawa Maru” for Nippon Yusen Kaisha (NYK), Tokyo (331 passengers in 3 classes); employed on trans-Pacific services
1941: requisitioned by the Imperial Japanese Navy; refitted and served as a hospital ship until the end of the war in August 1945.
Taken over by the Allied Shipping Control Authority for the Japanese Merchant Marine (SCAJAP) as Ship No. H-022. Employed in repatriation of Japanese military & civilian personnel from Japanese-occupied Asian & Pacific countries.
Returned to original owners in 1947 & used mainly as a cargo-only ship until being refitted for passenger service in 1953. Withdrawn from service in 1960.
1961: moored at Yamashita Park, Yokohama. Went through various guises as a restaurant, hotel, wedding venue etc.
After the last such owner sustained financial losses, she was taken over by NYK's subsidiary Yusen Navtec Co., Ltd., Yokohama in 2007, partially restored to her original state & reopened as a museum in 2008 with the official name of “NYK Hikawa Maru” (see http://www.shipspotting.com/gallery/photo.php?lid=2959752)

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