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Hino was home to many Omi merchants who plied up and down Japan during the Edo Period to sell and trade their wares. They became quite successful selling medicines, lacquerware, sake, etc. Those from Hino were called Hino shonin (Hino merchants).

Barrels of Hino merchant sake

Manhole with the symbol of Hino merchant, Shiga Prefecture

Omi Hino Merchant House. The former home of Hino merchant Yamanaka Hyouemon was donated to the town in 1981. Now a museum exhibiting the history and artifacts of the Hino merchants. 近江日野商人館Small admission charged. Open 9 am to 4 pm, closed on Mon. and Fri. Close to the center of town.

Address: Okubo 1011, Hino-cho
Phone No.: 0748-52-0007

山中兵右衛門

Entrance to Omi Hino Merchant House. Download the museum's English pamphlet here. Map近江日野商人館

Inside Omi Hino Merchant House近江日野商人館

Lacquerware sold by Hino merchants近江日野商人館

Inside Omi Hino Merchant House

Itoh Chube'e Memorial House (Itoh Chube'e Ki'nenkan). Itoh Chube'e (1842-1903) was the founder of Itochu Corporation and Marubeni, two of Japan's largest trading companies, in 1858. MAPThis house displays his former residence and some of his possessions. A short walk from Toyosato Station, the house is open to the public on Tue., Thu., and Sat. Free admission.

Gokasho is famous for the grand, old homes of wealthy Omi merchants. Three of them are clustered together for us to visit inside. They are the former residences of Tonomura Uhee (外村宇兵衛), Tonomura Shigeru (外村繁), and Nakae Jungoro (中江

Inside Omi Hino Merchant House

Entrance to Itoh Chube'e Memorial House

Gokasho was home to many Omi merchants who plied up and down Japan during the Edo Period to sell and trade their wares. They became quite successful selling medicines, lacquerware, sake, etc.Wall of former home of Omi merchant Tonomura Shigeru (1902-1961) (外村繁邸).

Entrance to Itoh Chube'e Memorial House

Former home of Omi merchant Tonomura Shigeru (外村繁邸). MapTonomura Shigeru (外村繁), Tonomura Uhee (外村宇兵衛), and Nakae Jungoro (中江準五郎)

Clothing worn by Hino merchants

Front garden

Entrance to former home of Omi merchant Tonomura Shigeru (外村繁邸). Gokasho is also a National Important Traditional Townscape Preservation District (重要伝統的建造物群保存地区).

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Front garden

Entrance to former home of Omi merchant Tonomura Shigeru.

Sake containers

Maid's room

In front of Gokasho Station is a map and stone monument. Gokasho is also a National Important Traditional Townscape Preservation District (重要伝統的建造物群保存地区).

Living room of former home of Omi merchant Tonomura Shigeru.

Medicine

Inside entrance. The house was occupied by Itochu company founder Itoh Chube'e and his son, Chube'e II.

Stone monument for the local Obata shonin merchants.

Shopkeeper's desk

Woman's hairdressing room.

Shinmachi-dori road with traditional Omi merchant homes. This area is also a National Important Traditional Townscape Preservation District (重要伝統的建造物群保存地区). 近江商人の新町通り MAP

Butsudan Buddhist altar in a butsuma (Buddhist altar room).

Room with Hina festival dolls and entrance to the Tonomura Shigeru Literature Museum. 雛祭りの雛人形

In Omi-Hachiman, Shinmachi-dori looking toward Hachimanyama. This area is also a National Important Traditional Townscape Preservation District (重要伝統的建造物群保存地区).

Tokonoma alcove and scroll. 奥の間

Hina festival dolls. 雛祭りの雛人形

Shinmachi-dori looking toward Hachimanyama

In 1998, the house was donated to a local foundation. In 2002, the house was opened to the public.

Hina festival dolls. 雛祭りの雛人形

Exhibits of Itoh Chube'e II, the son of the founder Chube'e (1842-1903).

Entrance to the former residence of Omi merchant Fujii Hikoshiro (1876-1956) (藤井彦四郎邸)

Tonomura Shigeru Literature Museum (Bungakukan). Shigeru had a passion for writing, so he entrusted the family business to his younger brother. 外村繁文学館

Wall

Bust of Itoh Chube'e II (1886-1973), his walking sticks, bag, and shoes.

Former residence of Omi merchant Fujii Hikoshiro (1876-1956) (藤井彦四郎邸). Now a history museum.

Picture of Tonomura Shigeru in the Literature Museum (Bungakukan). 外村繁文学館

Kitchen

Omi merchant statue.

Attic

Local Artifacts Museum (Kyodo Shiryokan) 郷土資料館。近江商人・西村太郎右衛門の宅地跡にある資料館

Omi merchant statue.

Hina festival dolls. 雛祭りの雛人形

Shinmachi-dori next to Local Artifacts Museum

Kitchen

Bust of Fujii Hikoshiro

Hina festival dolls. 雛祭りの雛人形

Local Artifacts Museum (Kyodo Shiryokan). Former residence of Omi merchant Nishimura Tarouemon. 郷土資料館

Stove 炊事場

Foyer of house 玄関

Hina festival dolls. 雛祭りの雛人形

Inside Local Artifacts Museum (Kyodo Shiryokan)

Western-style bath from the early 20th century. Very unusual at the time. 西洋風バスルーム

Entrance room

2nd floor balcony (Watch your head).

Inside Local Artifacts Museum (Kyodo Shiryokan)

Bathroom sink

Omi merchant display

2nd floor balcony

Connected to the Local Artifacts Museum is the History and Folklore Museum (Rekishi Minzoku Shiryokan) 歴史民族資料館

Built in 1935, a memorial for Itoh Chube'e in Kurenai Park. くれない園

Corridor to rooms and garden.

View from 2nd floor balcony

Soldier's uniform, History and Folklore Museum

Memorial marking Itoh Chobe'e's house, right near Itoh Chube'e's house. Chobe'e was Chube'e's older brother and co-founder of Marubeni Corporation.

2nd floor with more Hina dolls.

History and Folklore Museum

Another guest meeting room 客間

2nd floor room with Hina festival dolls. 雛祭りの雛人形

Soldier's send-off flag, History and Folklore Museum

Main guest room 主客間

2nd floor room looking toward the balcony.

Omi merchant daily implements, History and Folklore Museum

Main guest room

Hina festival dolls in alcove.

Omi merchant house, History and Folklore Museum

Main guest room

Hina festival dolls

Omi merchant furniture, History and Folklore Museum

Exterior view

2nd floor with Hina festival dolls

Omi merchant furniture, History and Folklore Museum　近江商人の帳場風景

Exterior view

Hinamatsuri dolls

Omi merchant desk, History and Folklore Museum　近江商人の帳場風景

Spacious garden outside Fujii Hikoshiro house

Former Ban family Omi merchant home which also served as a girls school and public library until 1997. Omi-Hachiman, Shiga. 旧伴家住宅Opened to the public in 2004 as a museum. 伴庄右衛門は江戸時代初期から活躍した八幡商人の一人で、屋号を扇屋といい、主に畳表・蚊帳を商い豪商となった。

Spacious garden outside Fujii Hikoshiro house (in background)

Kitchen area with dirt floor.

Entrance to former Ban family residence. Completed in 1840. 旧伴家住宅伴庄右衛門は江戸時代初期から活躍した八幡商人の一人で、屋号を扇屋といい、主に畳表・蚊帳を商い豪商となった。

Pine tree in garden

Kitchen area

Inside former Ban family residence. They made their fortune selling mosquito nets and tatami straw matting.

Spacious garden and Fujii Hikoshiro house

Furo bath wirth wooden barrel (heated by firewood)

Inside former Ban family residence.

Changing room next to bath.

Inside former Ban family residence, 2nd floor.

Western-style room

Path to next Omi merchant home.

Statue of Fujii Hikoshiro

Turn left there.

Former Nishikawa Residence (Kyu-Nishikawa-ke Jutaku), large Omi merchant home designated as an Imnportant Cultural Property. Omi-Hachiman, Shiga. 旧西川家住宅国重要文化財

Old photos of Omi merchants

Entrance to Nishikawa Residence. During the Edo Period, the family made their fortune selling mosquito nets and tatami straw matting.

Old photos of Omi merchants carrying their trademark "tenbin" pole.

Former home of Omi merchant Tonomura Uhee (1777-1820) (外村宇兵衛邸).

Wall of Nishikawa residence.

Western-style room

Entrance to former home of Omi merchant Tonomura Uhee.

Inside Nishikawa residence. Omi-Hachiman, Shiga. 国重要文化財畳表や蚊帳を扱っていた江戸時代の豪商・西川利右衛門の旧宅

Record books

Inside former home of Omi merchant Tonomura Uhee. 玄関

Nishikawa residence.

Tags and certificates.

Inside former home of Omi merchant Tonomura Uhee.

Nishikawa residence.

Furo bath made of wood.

Shopfront with shopkeeper's desk.

Business diary

Signs

Shopkeeper's desk.

Nishikawa residence.

Signs

Living room

Nishikawa residence.

Kitchen area

Bonsai plum and pine trees

Nishikawa residence.

Bonsai

Nishikawa residence.

Shopkeeper

Shopkeep's desk

Bonsai plum trees

Kitchen

Showcase

Storage area

Shopkeeper's record book.

Swing-down ladder to enter upper floor.

Shopkeeper's record book.

Attic, mainly for storage.

Omi merchant profiles

Attic and ceiling

External view

Obata dolls 小幡人形

External view

Garden

Tokonoma alcove

Garden

More display cases

External view of house

Statue of Omi merchant peddler carrying his trademark "tenbin" pole.

Rickshaws

Way to the third Omi merchant house.

Old mail box.

Former home of Omi merchant Nakae Jungoro (中江準五郎邸).

Ohmi Merchant Museum is on the 3rd floor of this building. 近江商人博物館 Map

Former home of Omi merchant Nakae Jungoro (中江準五郎邸).

This is actually the Tenbin no Sato Culture Center. てんびんの里文化学習センター

Entrance to home of Omi merchant Nakae Jungoro (中江準五郎邸).

Ohmi Merchant Museum

Entrance to home of Omi merchant Nakae Jungoro (中江準五郎邸).

Ohmi Merchant Museum

Inside the home of Omi merchant Nakae Jungoro (中江準五郎邸).

Sign showing the way to Omi merchant homes.

Bonsai

Corridor

Obata doll museum

Omi Obata Deko dolls

Dolls

Stairs to 2nd floor.

Stairway

Tokonoma alcove with scroll.

Window

Tokonoma alcove and scroll

2nd floor room

View from 2nd floor

Garden and pond. This house has a nice garden.

Stone lantern in garden

Garden

Garden and former home of Omi merchant Nakae Jungoro (中江準五郎邸).

Former home of Omi merchant Nakae Jungoro (中江準五郎邸).

Namako wall

Local souvenir shop uses a former Omi shonin home in Hino.

A room inside a renovated Hino merchant home.

Another Hino merchant home to visit is the Omi Hino Shonin Furusato-kan (近江日野商人ふるさと館). Former grand residence of Hino merchant Yamanaka Shokichi (旧山中正吉邸).

Entrance to the Omi Hino Shonin Furusato-kan (近江日野商人ふるさと館). On the road leading to the entrance of Umamioka Watamuki Shrine.Yamanaka Shokichi was a Hino merchant born in 1809. He became a sake brewer in Shizuoka Prefecture. By the 1920s, his family became one of Shizuoka's most successful sake brewers.

Omi Hino Shonin Furusato-kan was purchased and restored by Hino Town. It opened in April 2015.

Click here for blog post about Omi Hino Shonin Furusato-kan.

Japanese-style rooms.

This room is the home's largest and also where you can have lunch.

Lunch at Omi Hino Shonin Furusato-kan.

Dessert was fig. Yummy!Reservations are required to have lunch here. Prices are affordable, starting at around ¥1,500. Call 0748-52-0008 (in Japanese). Address: 1264 Nishioji, Hino-cho, Gamou-gun, Shiga-ken 529-1628 (滋賀県蒲生郡日野町大字西大路1264番地)

The food was prepared by a group of local ladies calling themselves the "Society for Continuing Traditional Cooking" (伝統料理を継続する会).They use locally grown vegetables and other ingredients made in Japan. They say that everything is "wholeheartedly handmade."