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Japan, Hokkaido

Otaru

North Canal and Minato-cho waterfront

Tidal foreshore Inferred from historyGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Sea glassSea glass

Also reported: warehouse architecture.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Moximox (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Why this spot

Herring and coal boom port of Meiji-Taisho Hokkaido; lighterage canal finished 1923, North Canal keeps the working width

port history solidly documented; no published record of shoreline finds, canal edges are built quaysides

Before you go

Hazards noted for this site.

unfenced canal edge in the North Canal stretchIce in winter

Keep exploring nearby

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