Tsuyazaki Sengen Historic District

Tsuyazaki Sengen in Fukutsu preserves a cluster of Meiji-era merchant buildings that once lined the streets of a salt-trading town, active until government controls ended local production in 1905. A working sake brewery founded in 1874, an indigo dyeing workshop from 1901 now open as a folk museum, and a family workshop producing hand-painted clay dolls for over 240 years give the district a lived-in quality. At the center stands Namiori-jinja shrine, founded according to legend by fishermen rescued from a storm by three deities. The shrine grounds include a 1927 stone statue of a rabbit riding a wave, donated in a year of the rabbit by community members.