Otaru Style

2020/11/04

2020 OTARU Snow Story

　　　　　　　❄❄❄　OTARU SNOW STORY　❄❄❄

　　　　　　　　Nov.1,2020(Sun)-Feb.13,2021(Sat)

OTARU SNOW STORY that is the big winter event in Otaru has begun since Nov.1,2020.

We made the card that is commemorative ticket type to tie-up with Hokkaido Railway 140 years.

Otaru and Yoichi version cards have 8 kinds of limited design.

The design changes monthly.

[Otaru version in November]

(Front)　　 (Back)

※Please take one of each per person

※ A number is limited

Distribution period

Nov.1,2020(Sun)-Feb.13,2021(Sat)

Distribution location [Otaru version card]

Canal Plaza, Otaru station Tourist Information Center ,Asakusa Bridge Tourist Information Center, Major accommodations ,etc.

※Yoichi version card is distributed in Yoichi.

The Blue Canal

Nov.1,2020(Sun)-Jan.31,2021(Sun)

Sunset～10:30pm

10,000 shining blue LED lights to illuminate the Otaru Canal

Wine Glass Tower

Nov.1,2020(Sun)-Feb.13,2021(Sat)

3-meter tall tower stacked approximately 2,000 wine glasses

Canal Plaza

Glass Art Gallery

Dec.1,2020(Tue)-Jan.31,2021(Sun)

JR Otaru station

Glasswork by Otaru glass galleries

This year's theme is sea.

　　　　　　 Otaru Tourism Association

　　　　　　　　　[OTARU Snow Story website]
　　　　　　　　　https://www.snowstory.info/

2020/11/02

Otaru Nishin Goten (Herring Mansion)

OTARU NISHIN GOTEN

(HERRING MANSION)

Nishin Goten (Herring Fishery Lodge) was originally built in Tomari-village, west of the Shakotan Peninsula, on a narrow beach between the cliff and sea water's edge. It was relocated to its current location in Otaru during 1958 by The Hokkaido Colliery and Steamship Company. The company originating from western Hokkaido later donated Nishin Goten to Otaru City. On 31th [sic] May, 1960, Nishin Goten was selected as a "Tangible Cultural Asset of Hokkaido Government: Herring Fishery Construction." This Herring Fishery Lodge was the first residential building in Hokkaido to achieve such status. Inside the Lodge, many valuable pictures and artifacts are exhibited, including fishing tools, equipment for the processing of fish as well as an assortment of house goods used by fishermen while living in this Lodge. (Inoue seminar, Otaru University of Commerce, n.d., Tangible Cultural Asset of Hokkaido Government, Otaru Nishin Goten, brochure)

HOURS

until Nov. 23 (Mon) 9:00 - 16:00

(*Closed from Nov. 24, 2020 to April, 2021)

ADMISSION

Adult 300 yen

High School Student 150 yen

Middle School Student and under Free

ACCESS

by bus: from JR Otaru Station, take bus #10 or #11 to "Otaru Aquarium"

get off at last stop (duration approx. 25 min), 5-min walk

The Otaru Nishin Goten is a 5 minute walk from the

"Otaru Aquarium" bus stop pictured below. Walk down