Abstract
According to the research study conducted by the Port and Harbors Bureau of the Ministry of Land Infrastructure and Transport, 892 historical port facilities are confirmed at the 266 ports in Japan. However, nationwide research study on the historical port facilities is very few except the study mentioned above. In order to deepen the research on the historical port facilities, the study on this field should be continuously reviewed based on the methodology applied to the past studies.
Under such circumstances, this paper describe the definition of the historical port facilities, research methodology of the finding of the location and the current conditions, and the wrap-up method of the research results for the effective study and appropriate compilations of the research results, based on the MLIT' s past research study.
Finally, this paper concludes the viewpoint of “Port Quarter (Minatomati)” should be added when classifying the characteristics of the historical port facilities, as well as proposes classification framework of the historical port facilities based on the idea of “Port Quarter”.
