Place names・Yokohama

Negishi RacecourseNegishi Keibajo

Also known as: 根岸競馬場

Japan's first full-scale permanent Western-style racecourse, opened at Negishi in Yokohama in 1866. Begun as recreation for resident foreigners, its site is now Negishi Forest Park, where the surviving grandstand still stands.

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