This is a very chaotic ホッキ clam museum😂 I think the whole building used to be the museum—have they scaled it down a little? Admission is free. The fortune-slip strings are tangled, so the generous setup lets you pull out every single one without missing any (lol). I'd like you to read them one by one and have a little chuckle🤣 Some fishing rods have lost their hooks (S-shaped hooks) and have a loop at the tip instead, but the loop makes it harder and more fun♬ Shell matching is surprisingly difficult, and my son was really absorbed in it too☺ Scattered among these amusements are things you can learn, such as the history of ホッキ clam fishing and how to tell a ホッキ clam's age from its size. Since there were no other visitors, my son and I enjoyed reading the reference materials and playing for about 1h🥰 The mindset of "I'm going to enjoy this💪" is important (lol). But it really is fun💓

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Visited on May 1, 2025. Admission is free. When I arrived before 15:00, they were tidying up at the end of opening hours, but they let me in. There is hardly any information about ホッキ clams; the place is filled with creations made from ホッキ clam shells. Shell matching is difficult. The jigsaw puzzles made from broken shells look difficult too. It was a handmade facility that both adults and children seemed likely to enjoy.

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A museum next to 海の駅ぷらっとみなと市場, filled with creations themed around ホッキ clams. An art museum might be a more appropriate description than an information museum…. Just enjoy it without overthinking things. Admission is free, and you can look around freely.

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A ほっき clam museum on the west side of 海の駅ぷらっとみなと市場 in 港町, 苫小牧市. I was wandering around 海の駅ぷらっとみなと市場 looking for somewhere to eat, and when I went outside, there was a museum. An explanation said that 苫小牧市 has long had Japan's largest ほっき clam catch, and that the long-established museum had reopened at its current location. Inside, there are ほっき clam shell-matching activities, messages written to ほっき clams, and ほっき clam characters. The museum mixes a chaotic, hard-to-make-sense-of space that makes you laugh with a slightly serious space. Incidentally, when I visited, it was unattended, and I had no idea what I was supposed to do. It's free, you can learn about ほっき clams, and above all it's a museum that makes you laugh, so I think it's worth visiting once.

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Admission is free. An unattended facility intended to introduce ホッキ clams; 5 minutes should be enough to look around. Inside are piles of randomly displayed exhibits and materials, making it a much more disorderly space than an ordinary information museum. There is little well-organized, solid information, and even finding it is difficult. It even has a distinctly local, folk-like atmosphere and isn't properly put together as a museum, but it's free, so I have no complaints.

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