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A restaurant, shops, and lodging facilities are gathered in a building using a dairy farm house built about 120 years ago. There is a sushi restaurant, a kelp specialty store, a cosmetics shop, a private house, and a history hall.

A glass workshop located along the former Tetsu Line in Otaru. In addition to making handmade glass, he also experiences glass production. Let's take a detour while strolling along Hokkaido's oldest railway track, the former Japanese National Railway Tetsu Line.

A kimono shop with a store in a residential area close to JR Otaru Station. We rent antique kimonos and sell them at events. Rental kimonos range from classic to modern patterns, as well as yukata and children's kimonos. You can also wear it with a reservation required, and you can rent clogs and drawstrings, so you can easily walk around the town of Otaru in a kimono.

In addition to making a cute music box 1200 yen ~, various experience menus such as dragonfly balls and sandblasting are available. Pre-booking is recommended.

The inside of the store utilizing a stone warehouse is a healing space where many candle lights flutter. Candle specialty store that handles about 1000 kinds of popular original candles, aroma candles, candle holders, etc. In addition, in the handmade experience, you can make only one original candle in the world. It takes about 30 minutes from 2200 yen. In the cafe on the second floor, you can relax with herbal tea in the light of candles.

The intersection of Goji Road, which is crowded with tourists. In front of the main building of the Otaru Music Box Hall, a steam clock is built every 15 minutes to sound a steam whistle, making it a symbol of the intersection. Night lights are lit at sunset, giving the atmosphere of a European street corner. I am also looking forward to facial expressions that change every season, such as illuminations and events.

It is built along the road from Asakusa Bridge on the Otaru Canal to National Route 5. The Literary Hall introduces valuable autograph manuscripts and remains of writers such as Takiji Kobayashi [Kobayashiya Takiji] and Sei Ito [Seisei], and poets Takuboku Ishikawa [Ishikawa Takuboku], which are deeply related to Otaru. The museum houses works by Japan's leading landscape painter, Yoshisaku Nakamura, and the printmaker, Arinori Ichihara, among others. Special exhibition has different fees depending on the content, so check in advance. It takes one hour.

A museum where you can admire a number of Venetian glasses, modeled after a neo-classical palace from the 18th century. The first floor is a museum shop. There are 10 exhibition rooms on the 2nd, 3rd and 5th floors, which are filled with furniture, chandeliers and decorative items. Commemorative shooting 1200 yen ~ wearing costumes related to Italy is also well received.

Materials related to the history and nature of Otaru, about 2000 items are exhibited. The museum itself is valuable, using a stone (timber-framed stone) warehouse built in 1893 (Meiji 26). The corner is a full-scale recreation of the streets of the Meiji and Taisho periods.

In addition to selling music boxes, antique music boxes with historical value from Switzerland and Germany, as well as automata (automatic karakuri doll music boxes) are on display. Among them, attention is paid to the pipe organ made in 1908 (Meiji 41). It has a profound and beautiful tone that has not changed since more than a century ago. There are six mini concerts a day, and you can also listen to antique music boxes. The performance time is about 15 minutes once for six times: 10 o'clock, 11 o'clock, 12 o'clock, 14 o'clock, 15 o'clock and 16 o'clock.