The dock at the end of Timber Street technically belongs to the merchant @Sharp, but everyone knows its true master is Bayushi Korechika. Though the samurai never openly visits except during times of trouble, there are perpetual rumors that he appears in disguise to keep an eye on his business. This business is, of course, the storage and transport of opium poppies. The business Korechika conducts within Ryoko Owari is completely legal. Here the legal poppies are stored and shipped under the watchful eye of his hired muscle.
The wharf itself is dark with the smudged remains of the raw opium packed here, and sometimes desperate addicts have been known to sweep up the chaff from the street and docks and try to smoke it.
Recently the warehouse itself was burned completely to the ground. This occurred at the same time that the Thunder Guard had arrived in order to revoke Korechika's license to store the raw opium. For more on this incident, see the report given by a member of the Thunder Guard who was present for the raid: Unicorn Informed.