Otaru can be a day trip with morning market, aquarium and trip to canal too.
Start the day early and give yourself a treat to fresh seafood and then visit Otaru Aquarium before visiting Otaru Canal.
Otaru Aquarium ends early at 4pm during winter and at 5pm for the rest of the year.
Website: http://otaru-aq.jp/page-2236/
If you are going during Winter, 2-4pm will be a good time to see sunset. After sunset, it will be difficult to take nice photos. It can be a slow walk from Otaru station to Minami Otaru station. There are museums, cafes and interesting shops along the stretch of old houses.
The walking map for Otaru can be found here:
http://otaru.gr.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/280319_en.pdf
https://www.city.otaru.lg.jp/sisei_tokei/otaru/foreigner/otaru-map.html
Walking down from Otaru station, there is an interesting bread shop with long history along the way. A small bread shop near North Pacific Bank, just at the traffic light towards Miyakodori shopping street. If you are looking for chinese food, there is an authentic chinese restaurant HAO restaurant.
Without kids or night off, looking for pubs, there is one just next to Otaru Furukawa. It has band performance during the weekend. An interesting cafe/pub/shop to explore. There is a ice cream lamp in front of the shop and half of the shop is a concept retail store. We love the toilet.... for this, you have to check it out yourself to know why!! Kekekeke!
There are a few hotels to consider if you are planning to stay in Otaru.
- Ginrinso
- Hotel Sonia which is facing the canal
- Otaru Furukawa , Japanese style hotel facing canal
Old railway track
Otaru Canal
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