Tsuruga Red Brick Warehouse, Historical warehouse in Tsuruga, Japan

Tsuruga Red Brick Warehouse is a pair of red brick warehouses at the Port of Tsuruga, built in 1905 by Standard Oil of New York. The foreign-designed buildings use Dutch bricks and feet as the unit of measurement, with a hidden columnar structure inside. The south wing now holds a restaurant and the north wing a diorama hall with an HO-scale model railroad.

The building was constructed in 1905 by Standard Oil of New York as a petroleum storage facility and marked Tsuruga's emergence as a major seaport for trade between Japan and Europe. This role made the port a central point in regional international commerce.

The north wing displays scenes of daily life in Tsuruga during the early 1900s through handcrafted models and period details. You can observe how the streets and everyday routines appeared in that era.

From JR Tsuruga Station the warehouse is about 30 minutes on foot, or take the Gurutto Tsuruga sightseeing bus and get off at the Kanegasaki Park stop, a 4-minute walk away. The restaurant wing is free to enter and stays open until 22:00, while the diorama wing closes at 17:30 with last admission at 17:00. Both are closed on Wednesdays, moved to the next day after a public holiday, and over New Year.

The Kiha 28 Series diesel train displayed north of the warehouse was bought by Tsuruga City in May 2018 from a transport company in Osaka, which had acquired it from JR West. It had previously run on the Obama Line.