Omi Merchant Museum, Zhongji Merchant Memorial Hall, Higashi-Omi City

It is an essential facility for Gotonso sightseeing. First of all, let's visit here and work out a plan to walk through Gotonso. There are also goods stores such as Libeokaki 300 yen and sesame senbei 350 yen, as well as goods from the city of Higashi-Omi.

It was the birthplace of the Omi merchants and a town that flourished as a base for the Gotanso merchants who were active in the Middle Ages. The four surviving Omi merchant houses are open to the public, and the town of the Kindo district, where many of the walls of the wooden board and white walls remain, is a valuable one that has been selected as a national important traditional buildings preservation area and is also certified as a Japanese heritage site.

During the early Showa era, the main house of the Sannakai clan, who operated more than 20 department stores in places such as the Korean Peninsula and the Chinese continent, was credited as the "department store king". There is a two-story wooden main house, a storehouse and a garden on a site of about 1000 square meters. The storehouse displays Obata dolls and clay figures from all over the country.