A year ago, a ward along Kawasaki's waterfront launched a campaign to rediscover the district's attraction and dispel its negative image as a pollution-plagued home to smokestack industries.
At that time, Kawasaki Ward officials never imagined they had so many treasures in their community.
Facing Tokyo Bay, the ward constitutes part of the Keihin Industrial Area, the biggest heavy industry area in Japan in terms of output, stretching along the bay from southern Tokyo to Kawasaki and Yokohama.