Cruise line history: NYK LINES history in the 1920s and 1930s.
Japan had one of the great passenger liner fleets. Ad from
Travel Magazine in the late 1930s. CRUISE HISTORY – SAILING
ACROSS THE PACIFIC – ABOARD THE NYK LINES AND OSK LINES Jazz Age
Destination – 1920s – YouTube video – great films of the
fabulous Orient before WW2. M/S Asama Maru (1929) and M/S
Tatsutu Maru (1930) – NYK Line One of Japan’s proudest periods
in passenger shipping was the 1929 building of two of the finest
and most luxurious ships ever to sail the Pacific Ocean – the
Asama Maru and Tatsuta Maru. They were routed on NYK Line’s
premier express service, regularly sailing from Hong Kong,
Shanghai, Kobe and Yokohama to Honolulu, Los Angeles and San
Francisco. Their passenger areas were of the highest quality,
much of it in traditional European style. There were polished
woods, stained glass skylights, fine dining rooms, lounges,
library, gift shop, hair salon, comfortable cabins and a
swimming pool on deck. This was luxury cruising at