Murakami House — Attraction in Richmond

Britannia Shipyards National Historical Site is a treasure of stories,culture and history. The well preserved Murakami House takes you into the lives of Otokichi and Asayo Murakami. Both Otokichi and Asayo imigrated from Hiroshima ,Japan yet at different times and ended up together in the this tiny fishing village. Otokichi and his wife would live in this tiny house with ten children from 1929/1942. The small wooden house was built on piles over the Steveston marsh in 1885. Otokichi was a boat builder fisherman while Asayo worked in the cannery,raised ten children and grew a wonderful garden. Japanese fisherman and their families were important contributors to the Steveston Community. There is also a memorial statue of a Japanese fisherman along...

This house was home of a fisherman immigrated from Japan, Otokichi Murakami, his wife, Asayo and their 10 children !!! Very nice to see real faces of people on a piece of history. Beautiful garden on the back. Asayo’s violin and her love for music gave this place...

They do a great job to maintain the house, a nice piece of history of first Japanese immigrants in Richmond. The garden is gorgeous in spring. It's a nice walk from Steveston pier to the Britannia yard and...