Experience
Iwakuni City Visitors Center: Honke Matsugane
Iwakuni City Tourism Exchange Center Honke Matsugane is a 3-minute walk from the Nishiki-tai Bridge, and is a hairdressing store built around 1850 that has been converted into a tourist exchange center. Inside the facility, visitors can enjoy tasting local cuisine representative of Iwakuni and sake produced in Iwakuni (both for a fee). There is also an armor experience available only on Saturdays and Sundays. At the armor experience, you can take photos wearing armor like a samurai (reservation required).
- Open
- 9:00am - 5:00pm ※ Open until 6:00pm from April to August.
- Closed
- Open all year round
Moment of Joy
At the Iwakuni City Tourism Exchange Center, you can sample Iwakuni’s local cuisine and specialties for a fee. Especially popular is the tasting of Iwakuni-zushi, a local dish of Iwakuni. Iwakuni-zushi is pressed sushi made from rice harvested in Iwakuni, mixed with vegetables such as lotus root and small fish. At the Iwakuni City Tourism Exchange Center, Honke Matsugane, you can try a bite-sized piece of Iwakuni-zushi. The armor experience is also popular with tourists, who wear armor and take pictures in front of the Nishiki Kintai Bridge.
