Iyoboya Kaikan

Iyoboya Kaikan is Japan's first salmon museum. "Iyoboya" means salmon in the Murakami dialect. Inside the museum, you can observe a variety of freshwater fish, including salmon. You can learn about the ecology of salmon and Murakami's salmon culture through exhibits of fishing gear used in salmon fishing and the Children's Salmon Science Museum where you can have fun learning about salmon through computer games. You can also observe the inside of the Tane River, a branch of the Miomote River, through glass, and see the natural state of the river and the salmon that migrate upstream in the fall. If you time it right, you can see the moment of spawning!