This roadside rest area plays an important role in disseminating information about the culture and history of the surrounding regions as well as local tourist attractions and specialties. The nearby Imizu Shinminato Municipal Museum exhibits materials on mathematics and land surveying (nationally designated important cultural assets) that once belonged to Ishikuro Nobuyoshi, one of Japan's foremost mathematicians and surveyors of the late Edo era (1603~1868) and a native of Shinminato, Imizu

Access: Manyo Line to Nakashinminato Station, Chitetsu Bus toward Kosugi-machi, get off at Tsukurimichi, 7 min. walk