Abashiri City Folk Museum — Attraction in Abashiri

I came here for the Abashiri Showa era’s exhibition, the exhibition is small but it’s well planned and you get to see every angle of the living style under the Showa era.

Ground floor has tons of specimens and they all look super real…… you’ll get to know the animals near by Abashiri area. They also have several photo books for you to understand plants and animals from different months near the museum :) it’s so cute.

On the second floor you get to see the aboriginal ppl’s life style and Abashiri’s history. It took me around 2 hours to finish exploring this museum.

English is not available here, but Google translate is quite accurate. Not all the items have a story so you can just come and enjoy + explore. The fee is only 120 yen for adult. The building itself also looks interesting (feels like it’s from the Ghibli’s movie), the window on the second floor is amazing :)

The only thing that needs to remind tourists is —— you need to climb a bit (the museum is on a small hill) if you have leg or hip issue, will suggest you to take a taxi...

小さな資料館ですが、北方民族博物館で展示されている複製品のオリジナルや、昭和11年にアイヌによって制作されたチセの1/1ジオラマなど、展示品のクオリティは高めです。資料館の建物が田上義也設計ということもあり、建物自体を観る楽しみもあります。静かで雰囲気が良く、じっくりと観られたのがとても良かったです。

Tiny local museum with small but significant Ainu-related exhibits and unique architecture by architect Yoshiya Tanoue. Their collection mainly consists of taxidermy animals and household items/commodities of Ainu and local Japanese people through the years, and includes 1/1-sized diorama of an Ainu house built by an early 20th-century Ainu. It was a pleasure to see the original model of a small statue whose replica is exhibited at The Museum of...

120yen entrance fee, 2 stories of exhibition, finish in about 30mins top. Japanese wordings only. I use Google translate to view. Better to go to the Northern People Museum for a...