Asahikawa Science Museum — Attraction in Asahikawa

Visited on 1st November 2024. It’s a fun place to learn about science. It would take at least 2-3 hours to truly appreciate the exhibitions. Most of the exhibits have English translation and the exhibition staff were friendly and approachable too.

There is an observatory on the rooftop. Unfortunately, it was cloudy that day and we were unable to use the telescope. The view of the city from up there was great though.

The only downside was the show in the planetarium, it was passable and had little to do with astrophysics. Regret being stuck in there for 40 minutes.

Other than that the museum itself is a good...

This is a Science Museum, relatively small (you can also tell that by the size of its gift shop). However, I did have a very good time for hours with my little girl. All science demonstrations here delivered Science knowledge to kids, as well as funs (most with English description). Several staffs spoke English to guide us, especially when my daughter played with the "low-gravity jumping" and "free-rotation seat". So as the "taking photos of your shadows", great toy even to me. Excellent place to visit in Asahikawa!! You may put it into your...

Lots of interactive exhibits. Some were only in Japanese but most were understandable even without knowing any Japanese. The planetarium was only in Japanese though so even though the visuals were great, it would be hard to make sense. I really liked the science reference room on the second floor which had multiple exhibits in a small room. I hope this would have been expanded a bit more. They also had several machines that were great rides, e.g. a gyro type thing that spins you on all axes, and a moon...