Financial Museum of the Former Otaru Branch of the Bank of Japan 日本銀行旧小樽支店金融資料館
Built under the direction of Tatsuno Kingo, architect of Tokyo Station, it has been a free museum since 2003.
Built in 1912 to a design directed by Tatsuno Kingo, who was also responsible for Tokyo Station, and detailed by his pupils Nagano Uhei and Okada Shin'ichirō, the building housed the Otaru branch of the Bank of Japan in the decades when the city was the financial centre of Hokkaido. Designated a Tangible Cultural Property of the City of Otaru on 17 September 2002, since 2003 it has been a free-admission museum run by the Bank of Japan itself.
Hokkaido
Otaru
