Yanai Nishigura

Former soy-sauce storehouse where visitors can make Yanai's red paper goldfish lanterns.

Yanai Nishigura is a former soy-sauce storehouse turned craft stop. Its best activity is making a kingyo chochin, the red paper goldfish lantern that has become Yanai's symbol.

It is tourist-friendly, but not empty. The lanterns come from a local Edo-period craft tradition, and making one gives the old district a useful splash of colour and context.

things to do craft workshop