Hikawa Maru is a Japanese passenger liner built by the Yokohama Dock Company forNippon Ysen Kaisha Line (NYK Line). She  sailed on the Pacific route beteen Yokohama, Seattle and Vancouver. During WII she served as a hospital ship and as one of two Japanese ships to survive the war. After the war she was used mainly as a  cargo ship until 1953 when she resumed passenger service on the Pacific. She was decommissioned in 1960 and has been moored at Yamashita Park in Yokohama as a museum ship since.