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Main Building of the Otaru Music Box Museum

4.0

708 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Hokkaido Otarushi Sumiyoshichou 4-1

This landmark of Otaru, the Otaru Music Box Museum is located on a corner of the Marchen Intersection of Otaru Sakaimachi street and Irifune street. Housed in a red brick structure built in 1912, this store displays music boxes collected from all over Japan and the world resplendent with a warm radiant atmosphere. The steam-powered clock by the entranceway announces the time every 15 minutes with a blast of steam and a melody. It is a popular photo opportunity spot.

The famed music museum in the Otaru Orgel-do II building in Otaru The Music Box Museum consists of multiple buildings scattered around the southern end of Sakaimachi Street but we concentrate on the...
Kitaichi Glass Sangokan (Emporium No. 3)

4.0

351 Reviews

Shopping

Hokkaido Otarushi Sakaimachi 7-26

Kitaichi Glass Sangokan (Emporium No. 3) located a little south of the canal is a popular tourist attraction even in Otaru and is well known as a glassware store. It also contains retailers of original glass products such as colorful glasses and lamps as well as cafe bars where stained glass spreads across the ceiling. One of the popular shops is Kitaishi Hall which is lit by 167 oil lamps. Because you can order meals and confectionary in the shop, it is recommended as a place to have a break from sightseeing. This fantasy space that is just like entering the world of the movies is worth a visit.

Many shops in Otaru selling glass items but this is one of the biggest we went which has a wide range of items and designs. I wanted to buy a sake set which I found here - good quality and pretty...
Otaru Taisho Glass Palace

4.0

194 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Hokkaido Otarushi Ironai 1-1-8

Approximately 15 minutes on foot from JR Otaru Station, this shop was repurposed from the historical Natori Takasaburo Store built in 1906. Inside the shop are displays of Japanese style glass works made in Otaru City which are available for purchase. Nearby are a series of shops including the Vidro-Kan with its collection of miniature glass and the Tonbo Tama-Kan that features a workshop to try out glass production.

Located in The Former Takasabuto Natori Store, the building is one of the designated historic landmarks of Otaru City. Now occupied by the Otaru Taisho Glass Palace, this place is filled with...
Wing Bay Otaru

3.5

76 Reviews

Leisure / Hobbies

Hokkaido Otaru-shi Chikko 11

This commercial complex facility is located six minutes by outbound rapid train (JR Hakodate Main Line) from JR Otaru Station at JR Otaru-Chikko Station (directly connected to Wing Bay Otaru). It was built as a place of expression in Otaru, a city that combines nature and culture. It has popular brand shops, a fitness gym, movie theater and a variety of restaurants. In addition, events are held on weekends inviting various performers.

Went there for clothes shopping early January 2019. Claimed tax free so that receipt was stapled in my passport. And I hadn’t take a photo of the receipt before leaving receipts at custom of Chitose...
Orgel-doh(R) Kaimeiro Main Store

4.0

36 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Hokkaido Otaru-shi Sakaimachi 1-20

"This specialty music box store is located facing Sakaimachi Street. The historic building was built in 1893, and Kaimeiro Brand music boxes are exhibited and sold here. It has been designated as a historical building of Otaru City, and has a mysterious atmosphere which evokes a sense of nostalgia. It has a reputation for allowing customers to spend their time peacefully in the spacious and brightly lit store. As the building also has a workshop, customers can choose their music and boxes to order ""mix and match music boxes,"" even purchase ""DIY music boxes"" to decorate themselves or also order ""custom-made music boxes"" with your memorable music."

この建物は、小樽市の堺町本通りにある旧第百十三国立銀行小樽支店の歴史的建造物です。大きな両開きの玄関扉と大きな窓には鉄格子が入っており、銀行だったことが分かります。現在はオルゴールのショップとして使用されていました。
Otaru Sankaku Market

4.0

529 Reviews

Shopping

Hokkaido Otaru-shi Inaho 3-10-16

Lots of live seafood on display here especially humongous crabs of all types! Fun visit for young kids. Many places inside selling seafood donburi which easily provides more bang for buck vs those...
LeTAO Main Shop

Gourmet / Alcohol

Hokkaido Otarushi Sakaimachi 7-16

The main location of a Western confectionary shop from Otaru, Hokkaido. The easily identifiable exterior is modeled after a cute, old European tower. The shop's signature item is its Double Fromage, a melt-in-your mouth cheesecake made with top quality ingredients and consisting of a baked and non-baked layer. The shop can also ship products throughout Japan and you can always enjoy fresh-made cheesecake and creme brulee in the cafe area.
Kitaichi Glass Hanazono Store

4.0

7 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Hokkaido Otaru-shi Hanazono 1-6-10

A satellite shop of Otaru glassware company Kitaichi Glass. Operating out of an old-fashioned building facing National Route 5, here you can try glass engraving. The shop's sandblasting class involves blasting sand onto the surface of glass to etch out your very own original design and is easy even for elementary school-aged children to do. You can get your creation that very day, perfect for making a memory with family or a friend. The shop also offers a glass bead arranging class in which you combine your favorite glass beads along with other parts to create a necklace or bracelet. The shop is also located a little away from the popular Otaru Canal, ensuring you can enjoy a quieter, more relaxing experience here.

We enjoyed this workshop very much. You apply stencil stickers on the glass of your choice (you pay separate fee for the glass) and eventually use a sand blaster to etch the glass. The final result...
Nantaru Market

4.0

45 Reviews

Shopping

Hokkaido Otarushi Shintomichou 12-1

The market, located five minutes away from JR Otaru Station, is vibrant and highly popular with local customers and tourists. The prototype was created in the early Showa era around 1930. Afterward, it took its current form in 1968, vibrant with nearly 30 stores in a building with a retro feel. In addition to the fishery and agricultural products unique to Hokkaido, there are many processed foods using local seasonal ingredients, fresh seafood like sashimi and dried fish, and also stores shipping locally. Besides that, the lineup has a rich variety, including food, household products and fresh flowers.

Stop by on the way from Sapporo to Otaru. A small local market with friendly hawker. Sells fruits, vege, seafood, fried/cooked food and groceries. Surprisingly the toilet is sooo clean, thumbs up!
Kitaichi Glass Outlet

Travel / Tourism

Hokkaido Otarushi Sakaimachi 7-20

This is a souvenir shop in Otaru. They offer discontinued products or items that might not be up to usual standards from the Kitaichi Glass company. These goods are all available at prices below regular market prices. This has become a very popular souvenir spot for tourists.
SaShiSuSeSo

4.0

1 Reviews

Shopping

Hokkaido Otaru-shi Sakaimachi 7-26

This seasonings container shop is owned and operated by Kitaichi Glass, a company which brings the culture and traditions of Otaru into the modern day. The shop's primary product is the namesake SaShiSuSeSo, a popular soy sauce dispenser which doesn't drip created by Kitaichi Glass. Made with an integrated, carefully adjusted top, these soy sauce dispensers pour well and prevent unwanted excess dripping. The shop carries a wide variety of these dispensers, from reasonably-priced models perfect for taking home as a souvenir to high-class styles suitable for giving as a present for a special occasion. The shop also carries cute small dishes, chopstick rests, salt shakers, toothpick holders, and more; and souvenir hunters are sure to have fun just looking around.

北一硝子の液だれしない醤油さし専門店です。お値段は800円からととてもお手頃。オリーブオイルも使える醤油さしもあります。道路に面した本店とお土産通りの堺町本通りにある2号店の二つ。アウトレット店にも値段の高いものが少しお安くありますよ。おすすめは本店。 2号店と同じものがありますが2号店の方が少し狭いのとお客が多くゆっくりと見てまわれない感じです。本店はじっくり見れてよかったです。一...
Souvenir shop Kobushiya Otaru Branch

3.0

1 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Hokkaido Otarushi Sakaimachi 5-29

A Hokkaido souvenir shop located on Sakaimachidori Shopping Street in the center of Otaru. As well as Otaru, the shop has branches open in Sapporo and Hakodate too. All the branches have a wide selection of sweets and local sake from across Hokkaido, so it’s a great place to do all the souvenir shopping. All the classic confections like Shiroi Koibito, Rokkatei, Royce’, Jaga Pokkuru, and Hanabatake Bokujo are on sale. The shop has English and Chinese speaking staff making it easy for tourists to do their shopping. The stone exterior of the shop fits in nicely to the retro look of Otaru’s streets.

商店街のほぼ中央にある石造りの倉庫が目印の土産店です。広い店内には、石屋製菓、六花亭、ロイズ、じゃがポックル、花畑牧場と人気商品が幅広くあり、北海道の土産が勢揃いしています。５０００円以上購入すると送料が四国、九州、沖縄が８００円、その他が６００円となることです。まとめ買いをするなら、お勧めです。
Yakata Blanche

3.5

3 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Hokkaido Otaru-shi Hanazono 1-3-2

This long-established confectionery store was founded in 1936. There are approximately 30 varieties of cake for sale all throughout the year in this tasteful store that symbolizes good old Showa. The ingredients are carefully selected, using local produce from Hokkaido as much as possible, and the store continues to create health-friendly confectioneries that do not include preservatives. This popular store is said to be known to all in Otaru, and to this day, continues to create traditional flavors that are loved by everyone from small children to the elderly.

穴場の店です。女性にはお薦めです。色々なケーキが販売されてますが金のショコラがお薦めです。アーモンドとバターの風味が豊かで美味しいですね
Pudding Un Delice

4.5

4 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Hokkaido Otaru-shi Suminoe 1-5-1

This specialty pudding store is located five minutes' walk from Minami-Otaru Station. The cozy store uses generous amounts of fresh eggs and milk to make its prized puddings. The most popular pudding is its Pudding Daifuku, which is characteristically soft to the touch. This incredible sweet is covered in gyuhi soft skin made of refined rice flour and sugar and is with fresh cream and jiggly pudding inside, and completely melts in your mouth. There are also various other puddings, such as the pure white custard puddings made with dairy products from Hamanaka, Hokkaido, and fresh eggs from Yoichi, as well as Strawberry Framboise Puddings, which have a whole raspberry inside. The store is also famous as the first specialty pudding store to open in Hokkaido.

南小樽駅からも近く、生協南店向かいの坂道沿い、セブンイレブンの裏側にあるお店です。小さいけれど洒落た店構えです。４００円前後もするお値段のプリンもおいしいですが、お勧めはプリン大福。求肥みたいなお餅に包まれたプリンが食べ応え満点で、お得感あります。食べにくいのが難点ですけど。
Kuwataya Otaru Main Store

3.5

22 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Hokkaido Otaru-shi Ironai 1-1-12 Otaru Unga Terminal 1F

This store sells panju, a specialty product of Otaru, which is soft on the inside and crisp on the outside. The word panju has even been added to the Kojien Japanese dictionary. At four centimeters tall and three centimeters wide, it is the size of a takoyaki, and has fillings of cream and cheese available. Panju has been used as an everyday snack since the Meiji period and was a reasonably priced food for common folk in a time when bread was still expensive. The snack is carefully handmade with 100% Hokkaido-produced crisp dough, and hot and plenty of fillings. It is best eaten freshly baked, but is also very nice when enjoyed at home after being heated by a microwave and finished off in an oven toaster to get that characteristic crisp outer texture.

After lunch, was walking around the area and spotted the signboard outside Otaru Canal terminal which showed these cute little panju and decided to have a taste. Kuwataya’s panju is a popular...
Toys Sweet

4.0

1 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Hokkaido Otaru-shi Asarigawaonsen 1-306-36

This western-style confectionery store, recognizable by its pop, American logo on the wall, is located approximately ten minutes from Asari interchange toward Asarigawa Onsen. For over 20 years since its establishment, the store has been creating and selling authentic French confectionery that is loved by local customers. The owner-chef of the restaurant is a talented person who has studied in Europe for ten years and has experience serving as head French chef at Sapporo Keio Plaza Hotel. The store's Otaru fresh cream pudding is a special dish that boasts a rich taste with a refreshing aftertaste and is made with plenty of pasteurized milk from Yamanaka Dairy Farm in Akaigawa Village and mellow 48% fat-content fresh cream. The bitterness of the coffee flavor further enhances the gentle sweetness.

在朝里水壩附近的Toy甜點咖啡屋，可順道來此歇息，二樓有老闆朋友蒐集的一些古董玩具，店中甜點旁邊擺放附近有機農人的照片，顯示食材的產地是周遭的農家。小塊蛋糕甜點約350~400 JPY...
Shin Nantaru Market

3.5

75 Reviews

Shopping

Hokkaido Otarushi Chikkou 8-11

Opened in 1999, this market place consists of 25 specialty stores of professional connoisseurs and craftsmen. Popular among the people of Otaru as well as tourists, Shin Nantaru Market is a place where food from Hokkaido ranging from fresh fish to processed goods such as seafood, meat, fruit and vegetables can all be found. Plenty of good-quality food can be bought at reasonable local prices, and the media can often be found here. There’s also a dining hall in the market where you can get some sushi or a bowl of rice topped with plenty of fresh seafood. The nearest station is Minami-Otaru Station.

We went back twice as the seafood are very fresh and a lot of varieties and vendors that you can choose from.
Amato

Gourmet / Alcohol

Hokkaido Otarushi Inaho 2-16-18

Opened in 1929, this long-standing cake shop began business as a restaurant and shop selling the Otaru specialty of panju, a mix of bread and manju (a bun with bean-jam filling). Now the shop specializes in selling cookies, creme caramel, baumkuchen (a German variety of cake) and other kinds of confectionary. Its signature product is the baked Marron Coron, famous also as a sweet from Hokkaido. In the cafe area on the second floor are wine red sofas where you can sit back and enjoy the fine sweets such as the popular cream zenzai (sweet red bean soup with ice cream), cakes and parfait all in the retro style surroundings of the Showa period. The nearest station is Otaru Station.
Taisho Glass Palace Hokkoriya

Travel / Tourism

Hokkaido Otarushi Sakaimachi 4-15

This shop is one of many old shops remodeled into glass shops, and cake shops which line the street of Sakaimachi-dori. The shop displays and sells items created mainly by the lampwork artists, Masae Hirokawa and Kumi Aoyama both living in Otaru. Depending on the day you can experience lampwork together with the artists. Miniature forest animals and sea creatures as well as other seasonal items make great gifts for yourself and others. As the store name suggests (“hokkoriya” literally means warm and cozy shop) there are a plethora of wonderful works of art on display.
LeTAO PATHOS

Shopping

Hokkaido Otarushi Sakaimachi 5-22

The largest store of LeTAO, a famous cake maker in Hokkaido, opened in 2011. Popular sweets such as their signature cake, Double Fromage, are sold in the shop on the first floor. The cafe on the second floor is an intriguing place with animations being shown on the wall and floor. Here you can enjoy some cake, available for limited times only, or a meal while watching videos of animals and fish playing around. You can also take-out crepes and other food made by the bakery and pastry chef. The nearest station is Minami-Otaru Station.

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