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Hokkai Cannery's Otaru Factory Warehouse No. 3 was built in 1924 (Taisho 13), the year after the Otaru Canal was completed. It was built to store cans for canned salmon and trout for seafood processing plants on the Kamchatka Peninsula, where North Pacific fishing was thriving.

The building is located on new land that was reclaimed from the sea to build the Otaru Canal, and recently discovered drawings show that numerous pine stakes were driven deep into the ground to reinforce the foundation for the building. The four-story reinforced concrete building has a total floor area of 7,200 square meters.

Otaru is known as the "Wall Street of the North" and is home to a group of bank buildings built using the latest technology in Japan at the time. Among these is the former Hokkaido Takushoku Bank Otaru Branch, a valuable example of early reinforced concrete construction. In 2012, it was designated a historic building by the city of Otaru.

The warehouse, located on the north side of the Otaru Canal, has long been beloved by local residents as an iconic building. However, nearly 100 years have passed since it was built, and due to its age, maintenance costs have become very high, so Hokkai Can Co., Ltd., which owns the building, has decided to demolish it soon.

Meanwhile, Otaru City, which aims to preserve and utilize the building as a symbol of its tourist destination, has asked the company for a one-year grace period. With the historical assets of good old towns rapidly disappearing these days, the question is how to revitalize the city while making use of historical buildings, culture, and scenery that can never be recovered once lost.

Facility name : Hokkai Can Co., Ltd. Otaru Factory Warehouse No. 3

address
2-5 Temiya, Otaru, Hokkaido 047-0041

Opening hours : You can see the exterior all year round

Closed days <br>The exterior can be viewed all year round

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This shop, renovated from the "Old Otaru Warehouse Main Building," said to be the oldest commercial warehouse in Hokkaido in the Otaru North Canal area, develops and sells original products that convey the charm of Otaru. The shop tells the story of Otaru's prosperity during the Hokkaido pioneering era and the history of the Kitamae ships, and displays and sells processed seafood and agricultural products from ports of call and Hokkaido, as well as original products by artisans and artists with ties to Otaru.