Ikedaya Yasubei Shoten is a long-established pharmacy in Toyama, which was founded in 1939 and has the oldest wooden architecture in the city. At the shop, you will learn how magnificient Toyama’s pharmaceutical business was and try pill manufacturing experience for free. Although Western medicine is well known worldwide, the effects of Japanese and Chinese herbal medicines, or Wakan medicines are still mysterious to the world.
If you visit Ikedaya Yasubei Shoten, you will understand how gentle Wakan medicine is to the body, and how much this old shop has contributed to reviving Wakan medicine in modern society.