Hiroi Isami Monument

and actually, a pretty prominent civil engineer.

Original Text

It is a bust of Isamu Hiroi, who was called the father of port engineering, installed in the canal park. Isamu Hiroi designs civil engineering works not only in Hokkaido but also in many places.

Father of port engineering

Original Text

It is a bronze statue of a doctor of port engineering who completed the world's first concrete breakwater at Otaru Port, who served as the first office director of Otaru Tsuki Port. On the nearby stable quay, we used concrete with volcanic ash to increase the strength, and we witnessed a breakwater with a total length of 1300m that has been active for more than 100 years, which was completed with a unique construction called oblique block. At the Minato Museum in the Tsukiko District, you can learn about the achievements of building Otaru Port. It is called "Father of Modern Port Construction", and ... in Hokkaido alone.