Otamoi Amusement Park is an amusement park that existed in the early Showa period in Otamoi, a coastal area of Otaru City. Opened in 1936. It was a huge resort facility with “Otamai Amusement Park” and the luxury restaurant “Ryugu-Kaku” built on the precipice as the core facility, but it was hit by repeated disasters and wars, and in 1952 (Showa 27). The park will be closed due to a fire that burned down the main facility, Ryugu-Kaku. Even now, the whole picture has not been clarified yet.
Akitaro Kato, a businessman who ran a Japanese restaurant “Jaime” in Otaru, started a resort facility when he was introduced to the Otamoi coast by a carp farmer he had a close relationship with, and opened in 1934. .. With a theater, a popular dining room, and an outdoor playset plaza, it was crowded with sea bathers in the summer and became a popular resort destination visited by thousands of people a day. Especially popular was the high-class restaurant “Ryugu-Kaku” built on a cliff. According to the pre-war menu, the dishes were three set meals of Shochikuume, and the pine was 1.50 yen (equivalent to 7,000 yen as of 2019) with five dishes and rice, and a 10% service fee was also charged. However, it was hit by repeated disasters and suffered from bad luck, and it was abandoned after being able to operate for only about 17 years in total. Even now, the curators of the Otaru Museum are taking the lead in the investigation, but the whole picture has not yet been clarified. The curator’s research report “Historical Study of Otamoi Amusement Park” was published in “Bulletin of Otaru City General Museum No. 28” published in March 2015 [2]. Sadamasa Komaki, an architectural historian in Otaru City who conducted a field survey in 1993, evaluated it as “the most thrilling and extraordinary building on the coast of Otaru, which is difficult to build.” “Otamoi” is derived from the Ainu word meaning “sand cove”.
The area around the Otamoi coast was designated as Niseko Shakotan Otaru Coast National Monument in 1963. The promenade to the site of the Ryugu-Kaku site was constructed in 1974, but the road to Otamai Amusement Park is now closed due to a series of rockfalls, and it is the only one that can be remembered from the sea. In addition, materials related to Otamoi Amusement Park are exhibited at the Otaru Museum.
In 1939 (Showa 14), the theater collapsed due to snow. In 1940 (Showa 15), Kato closed “Jaime” and devoted himself to the management of Otamoi Ryugukaku, but in the same year Bentenkaku was washed away to the coast by a landslide. Furthermore, due to the intensification of World War II, the tendency to weight leisure is strengthened, and management is stalled due to lack of supplies. After that, Ryugu-Kaku is mortgaged in Otaru City. 1942 (Showa 17) Kato transfers the management of Otamai Amusement Park to another person. 1946-1947 (Showa 21-22), the Otamai amusement park is reopened, but in 1952 (Showa 27) the Ryugu-Kaku was destroyed by fire.
About World Vintage Films
I’m doing a Youtube video of footage taken from the 1910s to the 1980s.
The footage is original and was filmed by my family and my friends while they were traveling.
That’s why most of the footage was shot in Japan.
The first step in the editing process is to convert the video from analog to digital. Then I remove the unnecessary parts and add the original music and subtitles. We don’t want to hide the footage, so we don’t have many subtitles.
Black and white footage may be converted to color.
International and domestic travel around the world, before, during and after the war.
We have over 10,000 films that have not yet been released to the public. We will continue to edit and distribute a few more in the future.
There is a lot of valuable footage. Especially rare are old footage from less developed countries. At that time, the equipment for filming was rare. Pre-war footage of Japan is also valuable. Old cars and trains. There is also footage of airplanes shot from the sky. Towns and markets, and people. And people. Famous tourist spots and natural scenery. The fashion sense is also interesting and different from today. Enjoy the scenery in the old style.
Mostly on 8mm, 16mm, 9.5mm, 35mm, etc. Newer types of video, such as VHS, are not covered.
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