Otaru (Hokkaido)
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The recommendation tourist attraction 6 election I'd like to suppress if I go to Otaru

Otaru where the important role was played in a pioneering period as a stoop in Hokkaido. The expressive streets where the historic landmark where the nostalgic atmosphere is played is held in a sea and a mountain various charm many tourists, and don't stop. If I go to Otaru, I'll introduce the recommendation spot which can never be removed.

The representative of Otaru sightseeing who tells history in a port town soon

The "Otaru canal cruise" which can realize history which prospers as a town of marine transportation by a look from Mizukami
The "Otaru canal cruise" which can realize history which prospers as a town of marine transportation by a look from Mizukami

Otaru which developed as a stoop in Hokkaido in a pioneering period. To support the marine transportation, the one made (1923) in 1923 is "Otaru canal". A wharf is provided Otaru harbor with after the war, and its role has been finished, but I have made progress to popular tourist attraction which represents Otaru at present. The condition stone depot left group by which the full length 1,140m is at that time along a canal is reused for Tourist Information Center and Restaurant. A promenade of a stone pavement, with freeness, Ayumi spider, the passage OK is Otaru canal cruise, and which is small, I enjoy myself, OK. Wherever is cut off, the scene for which photograph is conspicuous is filling.

Night wrapped in warmth of a gaslight, beauty is also remarkably.

An expression which will be completely different from including reception and noon in the light of a gaslight in a surface of the water at night is shown.
An expression which will be completely different from including reception and noon in the light of a gaslight in a surface of the water at night is shown.

Otaru canal shows me various expressions by time and a season. The light is on in a gaslight on the promenade in dusk, and a stone depot crowd is lit up and is in the nostalgic atmosphere remarkably, too. A float ball candle as much as hundreds floats on a canal, and the fantastic scene feels whole time frame of the event held in February every year "way to the Otaru snow light" is wide. The one by which the landscape by which Asakusabashi roadside garden which is a basic spot of photography and Hokuunga where the past image and taste in a port town float have their individuality every area is also charm. Please find me the landscape you like by camera bringing by all means.

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Then free rent service of the other umbrellas, wheelchairs and strollers which can have a sightseeing map also has the "canal plaza" near Chuo Hashi Machizono. Please use it for a start of Otaru sightseeing.

Otaru canal
  • The addressMinatomachi, Otaru-shi, Hokkaido. MAP
  • DirectionFrom JR Otaru Station, about 10 minutes on foot
  • ParkingI don't have that (Pay Parking in a neighborhood is used.)

I'm impressed with the great panorama nature interweaves with person's work.

The night view of Tenguyama is ranked as one of the Hokkaido three big night view as well as Hakodateyama and Sapporo Moiwayama.
The night view of Tenguyama is ranked as one of the Hokkaido three big night view as well as Hakodateyama and Sapporo Moiwayama.

Tenguyama where you're enjoying a citizen as a symbol in Otaru. A tied ropeway is running between peak from a mountaineering route and the foot of a mountain in addition to scenic road to Tenguyama observatory. It's a walk in the small air for about 4 minutes, to look at the state over which a sea and the sky where a city in Otaru is being and crosses by a horizon small one after another are spreading, something fun. The night view in which a jewel was inlaid is spread after sunset, and a heart is quivered. To see fire lit on a boat to lure fish as the Shakotan-hanto end in a late fall from summer. When the climate condition fits in early summer, a sea of cloud may be seen.

Even a power spot and Activity are fully loaded pleasantly from a superb view.

The view spot for which the photograph shine is also enough in the "TENGUU (ten goods) terrace" where I get a bird's-eye view of streets in Otaru
The view spot for which the photograph shine is also enough in the "TENGUU (ten goods) terrace" where I get a bird's-eye view of streets in Otaru

The superb view spot even during having 5 of observatory in peak, "TENGUU terrace" in long-nosed goblin cherry tree observatory is interrupted, but over which the great panorama I don't have spreads. Some time when I relax as well as the takeout menu of the cafe are special. The "chipmunk park" where a power spot and food open Experience of the "Mr. nose stroking long-nosed goblin" etc. which also says to other ones that I have my wish granted when "Tenguyama shrine" and the nose which will deify Sarutahikonokami are stroked, are made, a highlight, fully. There is also Activity of zip Rhein and a hot air balloon, and you can enjoy yourself from a child to an adult.

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One cherry tree near "TENGUU terrace" becomes in full bloom at the end at Otaru because an altitude is high. You can be lit up in the evening and enjoy the fantastic landscape with the night view in the background.

Otaru Tenguyama ropeway
  • The address2-Chome 16-15, Mogami, Otaru-shi, Hokkaido (Sanroku Station) MAP
  • DirectionI get off embussment and "Tenguyama ropeway" from a terminal in front of the Otaru Station, immediately.
  • Business hoursAt the end ofApril-at the beginning of November 9:00-21:00 (ropeway ascent last 20:48).
    ※ When it's change, a movement period and time are here.
  • Days closedA ropeway: There is※ and so on maintenance suspension at the beginning ofNovember-at the end of April.
  • AdmissionRopeway (round trip): A person of the students over junior high school of 1400 yen, schoolchild of 700 yen and preschooler are free about 1 adult.
    TENGUU zip line: 1000 yen for once
    TENGUU hot air balloon: Students over junior high school of 3000 yen and 4 years old-elementary students below of 2300 yen are free less than 3 years old.
  • TEL0134-33-7381
  • ParkingFree
  • Age restrictionTENGUU zip line: More than elementary students, (for less than 120 cm of height and more than 120 kilogram of weight, Experience, impossible)
    TENGUU hot air balloon: Without age restriction
  • MemoTENGUU zip Rhein and a TENGUU hot air balloon close down at the beginning ofNovember-at the end of April (There is a hot air balloon in case of cancellation by a wind.)
    ※ Please check it on the Web site for details.

The northern palatial residence of fine arts where prosperity of herring business climate is told

The large palatial residence a blue Nidai Yamaie eye and the daughter's dream condensed. I also appeared on a popular cartoon "Golden god".
The large palatial residence a blue Nidai Yamaie eye and the daughter's dream condensed. I also appeared on a popular cartoon "Golden god".

The "old Aoyama villa" which remembers prosperity of Aoyama family who built millions of wealth up by herring fishing from Meiji to Taisho. Hokkaido which is also called the total cost of construction of about 3,000,000,000 yen makes it the present price, and is an outstanding palatial residence of fine arts. There are no times in enumeration for the hand-carved sculpture done under the unusual tile-roofed roof, Shunkei-nuri lacquer ware of a floor and a pillar, transom and house and the work provided with every possible luxury such as an alcove of a residential architecture study-room style, a karesansui and Izumi Ike garden using a rosewood and an ebony in Hokkaido. Otaru is the highest peak in the herring palace which tells the time which sprang by herring fishing, and it's designated as national registered tangible cultural property.

In the herring dish which remembers prosperity of a great head of a fisherman's cooperative, and is local specialty, gusto

The luxury which is to the extent a sigh goes out of the space where work was collected with the painting pictures and writings with which each room is decorated, an antique and first-class building material unconsciously
The luxury which is to the extent a sigh goes out of the space where work was collected with the painting pictures and writings with which each room is decorated, an antique and first-class building material unconsciously

18 rooms where the aim is different respectively are in an old Aoyama villa, and the painting on a fusuma and the note the painters descended from Kano School drew are left. With a Japanese painting of Shimasaki willow bean goose which also drew a Chinese eight immortal gracefully in 13 sliding doors at the inside (SHIMAZAKIRYUUU), "between eight immortals" are highlights. After it was satisfied with the past prosperity much, it's to "Otaru a guest house" it neighbors. The button and the Chinese peony which are so much can taste total of 650 stocks of nest of boxes on which local specialty "herring Kanroni" was and Buckweat in Restaurant which can color a garden and see Sea of Japan in early summer.

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A handle of a sliding door of Toilet and cloisonne of one glass and the Arita ware which were put in the wooden frame to which you say that it was impossible to restore by present-day technology tightly is filled with commitment to the detail. Try spending time carefully.

Herring palace Otaru a guest house (old Aoyama villa)
  • The addressShukutsu, Otaru-shi, Hokkaido 3-Chome 63 MAP
  • DirectionIt's a car from JR Otaru Station, about 13 minutes
  • Business hoursOld Aoyama villa 4 Monday-October 9: 00-17: 00 or 11 Monday-March 9:00-16:00
    Restaurant 4 Monday-October 10: 00-17: 00 or 11 Monday-March 10:00-16:00
  • Days closedJanuary 1-January 7
  • AdmissionOld Aoyama villa Students over junior high school of 1100 yen and elementary students of 550 yen
  • TEL0134-24-0024
  • ParkingFree

Charm of Otaru glass is enjoyed fully at the space where history is here.

Charm of glass is fully loaded on 3 floors including Hiroshi's floor where a chandelier is brilliant.
Charm of glass is fully loaded on 3 floors including Hiroshi's floor where a chandelier is brilliant.

The glass brand which marks the history in more than 100 at Otaru "Hajime Kita glass". A shopping can be enjoyed while appreciating glass of Hajime Kita glass slowly at three number house in Sakai town street. A used lorry rail is left for a building to carry a load to the central corridor which is reusing a timber frame stone depot in Meiji middle term and ties two depots from a harbor. "Floor of a total", a kerosene lamp and a container of daily life's envoy goods of a total stem and a facet equal are divided into inside of the building according to "floor of the West" and the theme which made the main "country floor" and western culture a motif, and the atmosphere different respectively and the design can be enjoyed.

The work one point is usually colorful to a thing from envoy's tableware is in a row.

Beauty which comes to look at a lamp of multicolored stained glass forever and have a pain
Beauty which comes to look at a lamp of multicolored stained glass forever and have a pain

The glass and the tableware which can be used by a usual dining table, gleamingly, if, the line-up of the accessary with the light individuality is also various, colorful. Some time when I waver in gift election is also the pleasure of the travel. The one by which one stained glass work of a thing is also a highlight. Craftsman work, everywhere, an eye is absorbed and gathered by the delicate workmanship which shines unconsciously. I take a rest relievedly at the cafe in the inside of the building "Kita Hajime Hall" later of a shopping. Homemade sweets, a drink, the meal menu and Local Beers in Otaru can be tasted at the fantastic space where 167 petroleum lamps are on.

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For all making by hand, the goods of Hajime Kita glass are different in an expression subtly one by one. Please find me a favorite concerning the inside of store carefully.

Hajime Kita glass three number house
  • The address7-26, Sakaimachi, Otaru-shi, Hokkaido MAP
  • DirectionFrom JR Minami-otaru Station, about 10 minutes on foot
  • Business hours9:00-18:00
  • Days closedOpen everyday
  • TEL0134-33-1993
  • ParkingWith special policy Parking

The popular street where Otaru where the energy mixes with history is outstanding

In the streets where I also have a lot of brick construction and stone structure and have history a new building, exactly, it's harmonized
In the streets where I also have a lot of brick construction and stone structure and have history a new building, exactly, it's harmonized

Shopping district which leads to a common name "fairy tale intersection" empty Otaru canal district a little way from JR Minami-otaru Station about 900 m. A gift shop of sweets, marine products, glass and a music box, sushi, Ramen Noodles and an eatery in a cafe are the popular street which can't be removed by town walk in Otaru which lines up. The atmosphere there are also a lot of stores where a renovation did a historic landmark of a stone depot of the Meiji period and a store, and which is nostalgic, much. When I'm walking freely, "Otaru art village" is crashed against okohatsukawa (when I come, CHI GAWA), and is over it. When I turn to a sushi shop street and the right when I turn to the left at a street in a riverside, Otaru canal is waiting.

The service which is the tourist first and a seasonal event.

A shop popular with tourists gathers "Hajime Kita glass" and "RUTAO", and the gift election is also smooth.
A shop popular with tourists gathers "Hajime Kita glass" and "RUTAO", and the gift election is also smooth.

Sakai town street at which a tourist drops in certainly, always, traffic, all the time, big crowd. Though takeout trying out the food at various restaurants is enjoyed, and looks at cityscape, unexpectedly, as I take a walk, you can enjoy fully, but when making use of Tourist Information Center, more town walk becomes fun. Free rent of the other umbrellas, wheelchairs and strollers which can get shopping district and tourist information in in Otaru-shi and a suburb area and service of hand cloakroom (payment required) etc.. "Yukata wind bell festival" the pleasure is also holding a seasonal event such as "snow light in Sakai town", and whenever it's visited, is much.

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The PR video exhibited on the Web site is must-see. Charm on Sakai town street, a shopping district member, humor, much, the pleasure of the travel is introducing and is fact guaranteeing which doubles.

Otaru Sakai town street shopping district
  • The address6, Sakaimachi, Otaru-shi, Hokkaido (fairy tale intersection) MAP
  • DirectionFrom JR Minami-otaru Station, about 6 minutes on foot
  • Business hoursIt's different depending on stores.
  • Days closedIt's different depending on stores.
  • TEL0134-27-1133
  • ParkingPayment required

The "railroad track which can take photograph like Sean One of a movie you can walk

Even the whole country is unusual, the photo spot for which the railroad track you can walk is ideal. A grove and flowers lend seasonal gaiety.
Even the whole country is unusual, the photo spot for which the railroad track you can walk is ideal. A grove and flowers lend seasonal gaiety.

The part of the railroad in first Hokkaido laid out for coal transportation in a pioneering period "former Japan National Railways Temiya (unpleasant) line". It was an abandoned power line in 1985 (1985), but a railroad track mark is a promenade at present. A railroad track, from a sushi shop street to "Otaru-shi overall museum", about 1600 m. It's possible to walk on the railroad track actually, so I become popular as the spot for which photograph is conspicuous. There is Property which remembers the past of rest Property where crossing light and in the old color (Stay here, I didn't have that.) made the station a motif in the way, and imagination to the old good time is full of what kind of people came and went an iron road neighborhood, and what kind of drama was born.

A railroad legacy is appreciated at a place by the Hokkaido railroad origination.

Red cowcatcher and the "No. iron hose" with the pretty design with the bell
Red cowcatcher and the "No. iron hose" with the pretty design with the bell

There are museum of art, a literary house, a cafe and Restaurant along a railroad track, so to walk freely while taking a side trip, something fun. There is "Otaru-shi overall museum main building" at the place where Temiya station in a last stop was here at present. That a railway fan won't be preserved national designation important cultural property "old Temiya railroad Property" in premises in a museum and the neighborhood, must-see. It's possible to see the turntable which was used for a turn of a locomotive Kurazou number and a locomotive in the Japanese oldest which exists and a valuable railroad heritage of the steam train "iron hose number" etc. which also keeps moving around now at premises. The Experience ride is also possible by summer limitation (from the end of April, at the middle of October) for movement in an iron hose number.

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There is a cafe where the railway vehicle which was playing an active part before was reused at the entrance of the museum. During the nostalgic atmosphere which makes a dining car bear a close resemblance, real lo main and a soft ice cream from Akaigawa and pasture in the mountains can be tasted.

The former Japan National Railways Temiya line site
  • The addressIronai, Otaru-shi, Hokkaido 1-chome 13 (esplanade south side start point) MAP
  • DirectionFrom JR Otaru Station, about 11 minutes on foot
  • MemoOtaru-shi overall museum main building
    Closed: Tuesday (in case of a holiday, opening and following weekday rest) and New Year's (December 29-January 3)
    Admission: No charge below the adult of 400 yen (winter of 300 yen), the high school student of 200 yen (winter of 150 yen) and the junior high school student
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