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Ginrinso, a hot spring restaurant located at Hiraiso Cape in Sakuramachi, Otaru City, was originally a herring palace built in Yoichi Town in 1900 as the residence of Yasunosuke Inomata, a fishing boss who made his fortune from herring fishing. It took about three years to build and is an extremely luxurious building.

It was relocated to its current location as part of the Higashi-Otaru urban planning project in 1938. The following year, in 1939, it opened as a ryokan and was named "Ginrinso" by Ishiguro Hidehiko, the Governor of Hokkaido at the time.

It has been selected as one of Hokkaido's 100 cultural assets and is the only herring palace in Japan where you can stay overnight. The main building of the herring palace is also designated as a historic building by Otaru City as the "former Inomata residence."

Facility name : Ginrinso

address
1-1 Sakura, Otaru City, Hokkaido 047-0156

phone
0134-54-7010

Business hours : Check-in 3:00 PM / Check-out 11:00 AM

Closed days <br>Open all year round

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