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About Rumoi
A herring town. The shoals came to this coast every spring, paid for the settlements strung along it, and then in the 1950s stopped coming — so what is here now is the buildings that money built, and a road with nothing at all on its seaward side. Rumoi is where the Ororon Line begins, the highway that follows the water north towards Wakkanai.
Within reach of the port
Ogon-misaki
The cape at the edge of town, named for the herring shoals that turned gold in the evening light on their way past. It faces west over open sea, and it is on the national list of a hundred sunset views.
Rumoi Regional Bureau, Hokkaido Government (official) ↗in Japanese — your browser can translate it
The Saga family fishery
A herring ground opened in 1844 and worked by the same family until 1957, left standing where it stood — the house, the net stores, the boat shed, the kiln the catch was rendered in. It was made a national historic site in March 1997, and the tackle that came out of it, some three and a half thousand pieces, is an Important Tangible Folk Cultural Property. Public opening is limited, so ask the city before going out to it.
Rumoi City (official) ↗in Japanese — your browser can translate it
Mashike
Half an hour down the coast, a town of the same boom that kept more of it. The Homma merchant house, built up in stages from the 1870s, is an Important Cultural Property, and the brewery along the street has made sake here since 1882 and is the northernmost in Japan.
Mashike Town (official) ↗in Japanese — your browser can translate it
Shore excursions
NYK Cruises run their own guided excursions at each port, booked by guests themselves through My ASUKA PLANS — the booking window opens before departure and depends on your cabin class. They are conducted in Japanese. Going ashore independently is always an option.
Official sources
- Rumoi City (official) ↗in Japanese — your browser can translate it
- Rumoi Regional Bureau, Hokkaido Government (official) ↗in Japanese — your browser can translate it