Landmarks・Shimonoseki & Kanmon

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Also known as: 春帆楼

A restaurant-inn in Shimonoseki's Amidaji-cho where the Treaty of Shimonoseki was signed in April 1895, in a large room on the second floor. The building was destroyed in the 1945 air raids and the present main building dates from 1985. It is also remembered as the first restaurant licensed to serve fugu. It began as the Getsuharo Clinic, opened in 1877 on the site of Amidaji Temple by the Dutch-trained doctor Fujino Genyo.

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