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Herring Culture Museum Yamashime Banya
Overview
The Herring Culture Museum Yamashime Banya is in Shakotan Town, a town that prospered as one of the leading herring fishing grounds from the Meiji to Showa periods.
It is a facility for transmitting herring culture, preserving and utilizing the Yamashime Fukui residence, which flourished as a herring watch-house (banya).
There is also a cafe, so why not take your time and feel as if you have traveled back in time?
Business Hours
Typically from May to early October
9:00 - 16:00
regular closing day
Tuesdays, Wednesdays
Location
39 Funama, Bikuni-cho, Shakotan-cho (積丹町大字美国町字船澗39番地)
