The group of buildings owned by the Fukuhara family, who settled in Hamanaka-cho, Yoichi-cho from the end of the Edo period and were carrying out herring fishing, is the Fukuhara Fishery. It is a building that conveys the prosperity of the peak period of herring fishing to the present, and it also became a model for the interior of the Herring Mansion in NHK's morning serial TV novel "Massan." It is a nationally designated cultural property, and in spring, cherry blossoms can be enjoyed. When you stroll within the spacious grounds, you can feel the bustling atmosphere of that time, at the same time as knowing the layout and role of each building.

The banya, which is the main building, is a lodging space for migrant fishermen, and the fishermen's gathering place with a wooden floor called Daidokoro, a part of which has become two-storied, is designed so that fishermen can sleep and eat together in a three-dimensional space. Also, during the peak period of herring fishing, the floorboards were removed so that meals could be eaten while wearing shoes, becoming an impromptu dining table. In the rice and miso storehouse where straw products and food were stored, ingenuity such as packing stones between the outer wall and the inner wall to prepare for the intrusion of rats can be seen.

In addition to this, the document storehouse where important documents and clothes were stored, the net storehouse where nets and so on used for fishing were stored, and the drying area where herring roe and milt taken from herring were dried and made into products, and so on, are preserved in the same state as at that time, and you can learn about the fishery management of the era that was bustling with herring fishing.