Sekijuku Hatago Tamaya Historical Museum

Once one of the three largest inns on the Tokaido road, Tamaya could sleep up to 200 guests at a time. The building is now a museum where you can walk through original tatami rooms set with futon and tableware, see the soot-blackened kitchen with its 12-meter ceiling, and examine kofuda signboards used by village groups who pooled funds to send a member on the Ise pilgrimage. The annex reserved for VIP guests has vivid yellow walls and carved transoms featuring cranes, turtles, and pine. A storehouse at the rear displays Utagawa Yoshitora ukiyo-e prints from the early Meiji era.