Overview
A port town that prospered on the kitamaebune trade, where the shipping agents' houses remain.
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The Iwase area of Toyama Prefecture. It prospered as a port town of the Kitamaebune trading ships from the early Edo period, and has the Omachi-dori street lined with earthen warehouses and shipping wholesalers' houses, and many houses built in the Meiji period remain. Among the newer shops are a gallery converted from a shipping wholesaler's warehouse, as well as more food shops, beer pubs, sake bars and restaurants. At Canal Kaikan near Iwasehama Station you can get the Iwase Machiaruki Map, and there are rental bicycles.
Source info-toyama.com ↗Verification notes
- Prefectural Furusato Viewpoint (urban landscape) * Iwase district - Japan Heritage site * Port of call of the Kitamaebune merchant ships (Mori family, Baba family and others)
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