Taramarukan

Road station Iwanai is facilities with convenience as a turning point in the 229^th in national road line and 276^th line.

Iwanai local Industry Support Center

It is new facilities where sales of deep-ocean water and technical support to the local industry, besides the fishery and the marine product processing industry are done.

Kinjiro Kida art museum

In this museum, Kinjiro’s Kida work of art not only is exhibited, but also the another exhition unique and the concert, etc. have been held.

Arai memorial art museum

You can look down at the Iwanai town from the Arai memorial art museum. The best viewpoint at the museum is Picasso’s print collection.

Hometown material pavilion

There are fully a valuable exhibit of the Iwanai-cho with an old history in Hokkaido and an interesting content.

Iwanai Taramaru market

Near the “Road station Iwanai”, there are six direct sale of seafood places in the prefab. There is a shop that can taste a fresh seafood of the neighboring sea landed in the morning though it is small-scale.

The monument of the Soseki Natsume

A great writer Soseki Natsume of Meiji age known byworks, such as “I am a cat ” etc. had a only family register in Iwanai for 22 years.

The literary monument of the Takeo Arishima

Kinjiro Kida, the painter who continued creative activity while suffering was borne in Iwanai and became the model of Takeo Arishima’s novel “THE AGONY OF COMING INTO THE WORLD”.

Japanese asparagus monument

Asparagus is a familiar, deep as a vegetable of spring inseason vegetable. It is Iwanai to start in Japan and to have grown it.

The ground monument of wildness hop discovery

It will hop, if it is called the materials of beer. Iwanai is the ground that wild hop was discovered for the first time in Hokkaido.

Hydroelectric power station

“Iwanai hydraulic power electricity  incorporated company ” was established only in Sapporo, Otaru and Hakodate in Meiji 38 without an electric light (thermal power generation time)

Marine mall

This road was repaired as a symbol road. It is locateda center of Iwanai town that is used as our meeting place and center of shopping district.

Sanjyusan Kannon image

Mercy and hope are given to many people and it hasstill become Motoyama of faith.

Wooden great image of buddha in Tokyo maximum the north

It is a  great image of Buddha painted with gold foil in wooden,  that is, completed it in 1921 6.8m in height. You will be overwhelmed to the size.

A plain scene

When you will look at this port, it looks that Kida Kinjiro is sketching.

Athena

As a leading fishery base in Hokkaido, many ships came in and out the Iwanai harbor, and it also serves as a symbol of the economic activity of here for many years.