Otaru Sakaimachi Street

One street inward from the Otaru Canal, this street is a popular strolling spot with many souvenir stores, general merchandise stores and cafes in old merchant houses and Western-style buildings.

The 900-meter-long street stretches toward the Wall Street in the north of Otaru, which once flourished as a financial district, and retro buildings from the Meiji to early Showa periods, when Otaru was once prosperous, have been preserved as they were.

From the Otaru Music Box Museum at the Mercure Intersection, both sides of the street are lined with stores selling Otaru’s specialty glassware and music boxes, such as Kitaichi Glass, Lutao Honten, Kitakaro, and Rokkatei, popular confectionery stores, and restaurants serving sushi and seafood bowls.