| 1．Sapporo Ainu Culture Promotion Center |
| The Sapporo Ainu Culture Promotion Center (札幌市アイヌ文化交流センター, Sapporo-shi Ainu Bunka Kōryū Sentā), also known as Sapporo Pirka Kotan (サッポロピㇼカコタン)[2] or "Beautiful Village",[1] opened in Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan, in 2003.[1] Dedicated to the Ainu people, their history, culture, and way of life, the museum has some three hundred artefacts on display and there is also a traditional-style cise (dwelling).[1][3] |
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| 2．Sapporo Beer Museum |
| The Sapporo Beer Museum (サッポロビール博物館, Sapporo Bīru Hakubutsukan) is a museum located in the Sapporo Garden Park in Higashi-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaidō, Japan. Registered as one of the Hokkaidō Heritage sites in 2004, the museum is the only beer museum in Japan.[2] The red-brick building was erected originally as a factory of the Sapporo Sugar Company in 1890, and later opened as a museum in July 1987. The building also houses the Sapporo Beer Garden in the south wing. |
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| 3．Historical Village of Hokkaido |
| Historical Village of Hokkaido (北海道開拓の村, Hokkaidō Kaitaku no Mura) is an open-air museum in Sapporo, Hokkaidō, Japan. It opened in the Nopporo Shinrin Kōen Prefectural Natural Park in 1983. It includes fifty-two historical structures from the "frontier days" of the Meiji period to the Shōwa period that have been relocated and reconstructed or recreated, divided into four zones: town (with thirty-one buildings), fishing village (four buildings), farming village (fourteen buildings), and mountain village (three buildings).[1][2][3] |
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| 4．Hokkaido University Museum |
| The Hokkaido University Museum (北海道大学総合博物館, Hokkaidō Daigaku Sōgō Hakubutsukan) opened in Sapporo, Hokkaidō, Japan in 1999. The collection comprises some four million materials, including thirteen thousand type specimens, amassed by Hokkaido University in the hundred and fifty years since the foundation in of its predecessor, the Sapporo Agricultural College, in 1876.[1][2][3] |
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| 5．Hokkaido Museum |
| Hokkaido Museum (北海道博物館, Hokkaidō Hakubutsukan) opened in Sapporo, Hokkaidō, Japan in 2015. Located within Nopporo Shinrin Kōen Prefectural Natural Park, the permanent exhibition is dedicated to the nature, history, and culture of Hokkaido. Also known as Mori-no-Charenga (森のちゃれんが), the museum integrates and replaces the Historical Museum of Hokkaido (北海道開拓記念館), which opened in 1971, and the Hokkaido Ainu Culture Research Centre (北海道立アイヌ民族文化研究センター), which opened in 1994.[1][2][3] |
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| 6．Hakodate City Museum |
| Hakodate City Museum (市立函館博物館, Shiritsu Hakodate Hakubutsukan) is a museum of history and natural history in Hakodate Park, Hakodate, Hokkaidō, Japan. The forerunner of the current museum, the Hakodate Provisional Museum, building one, opened in May 1879, the second building in 1884, and the third building (later demolished) in 1891. In 1932 the first building became the Fisheries Pavilion and the second the Indigenous Peoples Pavilion. Legislation to create the current museum was passed in 1948, and the Hakodate City Museum opened in April 1966.[1][2] |
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| 7．Hakodate Jōmon Culture Center |
| Hakodate Jōmon Culture Center (函館市縄文文化交流センター, Hakodate Jōmon Bunka Kōryū Senta—) opened in Hakodate, Hokkaidō, Japan in 2011. It has four exhibition rooms dedicated to the Jōmon period, displaying some 1,200 pieces of earthenware and stoneware excavated in Hakodate as well as the only National Treasure in Hokkaidō, the so-called "Hollow Dogū" (中空土偶), excavated from the Chobonaino Site (著保内野遺跡) (designated in 2007). Hands-on activities, including magatama-making and "angin (編布)-knitting", are also available. The museum is located at Michi no Eki Jōmon Roman Minamikayabe (道の駅縄文ロマン 南かやべ), making this the only roadside station in Japan with a museum with a National Treasure.[1][2][3] |
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| 8．Hakodate City Museum of Northern Peoples |
| Hakodate City Museum of Northern Peoples (函館市北方民族資料館, Hakodate-shi Hoppō Minzoku Shiryōkan) first opened as the Hakodate City Museum of Northern Peoples and Ishikawa Takuboku (函館市北方民族・石川啄木資料館) in Hakodate, Hokkaidō, Japan in 1989. Located in the former Bank of Japan Hakodate Branch building of 1926, after the transfer out of materials relating to the poet to the Hakodate City Museum of Literature (函館市文学館), the museum reopened in its current guise in April 1993. It displays objects that were formerly part of the collection of the Hakodate City Museum (市立函館博物館), including materials relating to the Orok as well as 750 items used in the daily life of the Ainu that have been jointly designated an Important Tangible Folk Cultural Property.[1][2] |
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| 9．Otaru Music Box Museum |
| Otaru Music Box Museum (小樽オルゴール堂) is a music museum in the Otaru Orgel-do II building in Otaru, Japan. It includes various examples of music boxes as well as CDs that have music box-esque versions of various songs. Chris Bamforth of The Japan Times wrote that it had an "absolutely phenomenal" variety of music.[1] |
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| 10．Otaru City General Museum |
| The Otaru City General Museum (小樽市総合博物館) is a museum located in Temiya 1-chome, Otaru, Hokkaido, Japan, which features exhibits related to the history and nature of Hokkaido, transportation in the area (including railways), and science. |
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| 11．Otaru Aquarium |
| Otaru Aquarium (おたる水族館, Otaru-suizokukan) is a public aquarium operated by Otaru Public Aquarium Corporation, Third Sector, in Otaru City, Hokkaido, Japan. It is one of the largest aquariums in Hokkaido, and It is a member of the Japanese Association of Zoos and Aquariums (JAZA).[3] The aquarium is accredited as a Museum-equivalent facilities by the Museum Act from Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology.[5] |
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| 12．Asahiyama Zoo |
| The Asahiyama Zoo (旭山動物園, Asahiyama dōbutsuen) is a municipal zoo that opened in July 1967 in Asahikawa, Hokkaidō, Japan, and is the northernmost zoo in the country.[2] In August 2004, over 320,000 people had visited the zoo, the second highest number of visitors among all the zoos in Japan.[3] Located in Higashi Asahikawa, on the outskirts of Asahikawa, the Asahiyama Zoo is accredited by the Japanese Association of Zoos and Aquariums (JAZA). |
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| 13．Kawamura Kaneto Ainu Museum |
| The Kawamura Kaneto Ainu Museum (川村カ子トアイヌ記念館, Kawamura Kaneto Ainu Kinenkan) is a private museum of materials relating to the Ainu in Asahikawa, Hokkaido, Japan. The museum first opened as the Ainu museum (アイヌ博物館) in 1916.[1] Kawamura Kaneto [ja] took over the museum from its founder, his father Kawamura Itakishiroma [ja], and oversaw its development, before his son Kawamura Kenichi (川村兼一) took over in turn.[1][2] |
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| 14．Hokuchin Memorial Museum |
| Hokuchin Memorial Museum (北鎮記念館) is a history museum located in Asahikawa, Hokkaido, Japan. The museum is a JGSDF Public Relations facility displaying as many as 2,500 items concerning the history of the Tondenhei Army, which developed Hokkaido, the 7th Division of the old Imperial Japanese Army, and the activities of the 2nd Division of today's JGSDF.[1] Admission is free.[2] |
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| 15．Kushiro City Museum |
| Kushiro City Museum (釧路市立博物館, Kushiro Shiritsu Hakubutsukan) is a registered museum in Kushiro, Hokkaidō, Japan.[2] The Museum's predecessor institution, the Kushiro City Folk Museum (釧路市立郷土博物館), began as an exhibition room at the offices of the local water board in 1936, before moving to a department store, then from 1949 to the relocated former Kushiro City Police Station.[1] Upon completion of the new, dedicated museum building in 1983, the museum was renamed the Kushiro City Museum.[1] The displays centre around the geology, flora and fauna, and history of the area, with exhibits including the fossil jaw from which the Kushiro tapir [ja] (Plesiocolopirus kushiroensis) was described as well as Jōmon, Satsumon, and Ainu materials.[3][4] |
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| 16．Obihiro Centennial City Museum |
| Obihiro Centennial City Museum (帯広百年記念館, Obihiro Hyakunen Kinenkan) opened in Obihiro, Hokkaidō, Japan in 1982. It exhibits materials relating to the natural history, local history, and industries of Obihiro and of Tokachi more generally. There is an information centre dedicated to the history and culture of the Ainu and, in the museum annex, a centre for buried cultural properties. The collection includes an assemblage of Jōmon finds from the Yachiyo A site that has been designated an Important Cultural Property.[1][2][3] |
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| 17．Yūbari Coal Mine Museum |
| Yūbari Coal Mine Museum (夕張市石炭博物館, Yūbari-shi Sekitan Hakubutsukan) opened in Yūbari, Hokkaidō, Japan in 1980. It documents the importance of coal mining to the local economy from the Meiji period to the Shōwa period.[1][2] The museum is currently closed (October 1, 2017). |
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| 18．Abashiri City Folk Museum |
| Abashiri City Folk Museum (網走市立郷土博物館, Abashiri Shiritsu Kyōdo Hakubutsukan) opened as Kitami Kyōdo Yakata (北見郷土舘) in Abashiri, Hokkaidō, Japan in 1936, making it one of the oldest museums on the island. When the museum opened, the collection comprised some three-thousand archaeological and ethnographic objects collected by Yonemura Yoshio (米村喜男), including items from the Moyoro Shell Mound (モヨロ貝塚) (a national Historic Site). In 1948, the museum was transferred to the city. A new building was added in 1961 to celebrate 25 years from the original opening. Both the main building and the new building were designed by architect Tanoue Yoshiya, a pupil of Frank Lloyd Wright, and mark the transitions in his style. They are national Registered Tangible Cultural Properties. |
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| 19．Hokkaido Museum of Northern Peoples |
| The Hokkaido Museum of Northern Peoples (北海道立北方民族博物館, Hokkaidō-ritsu Hoppō Minzoku Hakubutsukan) opened in Abashiri, Hokkaidō, Japan in 1991. Dedicated to the various peoples of the North, across Eurasia and the Americas, the collection includes items relating to the Sámi, Nanai, Nivkhs, and Northwest Coast Indians, as well as the more local Okhotsk culture and Ainu.[1][2][3][4] |
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| 20．Hokkaido Archaeological Operations Center |
| Hokkaido Archaeological Operations Center (北海道立埋蔵文化財センター, Hokkaidō-ritsu Maizō Bunkazai Sentaa) opened in Ebetsu, Hokkaidō, Japan in 1999. Its aim is to protect, preserve, and utilize buried cultural properties.[1][2] |
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| 21．Mikasa City Museum |
| Mikasa City Museum (三笠市立博物館, Mikasa-shi Hakubutsukan) opened in Mikasa, Hokkaidō, Japan in 1979. The collection documents the natural history and history of the area and is renowned for its ammonites as well as for the Yezo Mikasa Ryū type fossil, discovered in 1976 and designated a Natural Monument.[1][2] |
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| 22．Nemuro City Museum of History and Nature |
| Nemuro City Museum of History and Nature (根室市歴史と自然の資料館, Nemuro-shi Rekishi to Shizen no Shiryōkan) is a museum-equivalent facility in Nemuro, Hokkaidō, Japan. It was established by the City of Nemuro in 2004 and is classed as a general museum,[1] collecting and exhibiting materials relating both to the humanities and the natural sciences. |
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| 23．Chitose Aquarium |
| Chitose Aquarium or The Salmon Hometown Chitose Aquarium (サケのふるさと 千歳水族館, Sake no furusato Chitose Suizokukan) is an Public aquarium located in Chitose City, Hokkaido, Japan. The aquarium specializes in freshwater fish, Researching in salmon and sturgeon.[3] It is a member of the Japanese Association of Zoos and Aquariums (JAZA),[4] and the aquarium is accredited as a Museum-equivalent facilities by the Museum Act from Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology.[5] |
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| 24．Noboribetsu Marine Park Nixe |
| Noboribetsu Marine Park Nixe(登別マリンパークニクス, Noboribetsu marinpāku nikusu) is a Japanese public aquarium. located in Noboribetsu, Hokkaido, Japan. It is the one of largest aquarium in Hokkaido, with several buildings constructed around a Western-style castle building.[4][5] It is a member of the Japanese Association of Zoos and Aquariums (JAZA)[6] and the aquarium is accredited as a Museum-equivalent facilities by the Museum Act from Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology.[7] |
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| 25．Eniwa City Historical Museum |
| Eniwa City Historical Museum (恵庭市郷土資料館, Eniwa-shi Kyōdo Shiryōkan) opened in Eniwa, Hokkaidō, Japan in 1990. The display is organized in accordance with six main themes: the land, early peoples (Jōmon, Zoku-Jōmon, and Satumon cultures), Ainu homeland, opening up the land, the birth of the village of Eniwa, and post-war. The collection includes an assemblage of Jōmon-period artefacts from the Karinba ruins that has been designated an Important Cultural Property.[1][2] |
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| 26．Ishikari City Hamamasu Folk Museum |
| The Ishikari City Hamamasu Folk Museum (石狩市はまます郷土資料館, Ishikari-shi Hamamasu Kyōdo Shiryōkan) is a local museum in Ishikari, Hokkaidō, Japan. Formerly the Shiratori Family Guard Station (旧白鳥家番屋), the building was constructed in 1899 and served as a banqueting hall for the herring fishery workers. With the decline of the industry in the 1950s, the building fell into a state of disrepair. Restored by the then Hamamasu Village in 1971 as part of the centenary celebrations of the village's development, it served as the Hamamasu Village Museum (浜益村郷土資料館). Upon the merger of Hamamasu into Ishikari, the museum assumed its current identity. The building has been designated a Municipal Tangible Cultural Property and in 2006 was selected as one of the nation's 100 Fishing Village Heritage Sites. The collection includes tools and materials relating to the history of the local fishing industry.[1][2][3] |
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| 27．Yakumo Town Museum |
| Yakumo Town Museum (八雲町郷土資料館, Yakumo-chō Kyōdo Shiryōkan) opened in Yakumo, Hokkaidō, Japan in 1978. Its origins lie in a room for the display of historical materials established in 1952 in the old public hall, superseded in 1965 by storage facilities and an exhibition space in the new public hall. The display is organized around three main themes: history and the land, the Hokkaido Development Commission and the lives of the people, and local industries, including mining and the craft of kibori-guma, a museum of which lies next door. The collection of over thirteen thousand objects includes a Jōmon red ceramic vessel with spout from the Nodaoi I Site and an assemblage of artefacts from the Jōmon Kotan Onsen Site that has been designated an Important Cultural Property.[1][2][3][4] |
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| 28．Esashi Town Historical Museum |
| Esashi Town Historical Museum (江差町郷土資料館, Esashi-chō kyōdo shiryōkan) opened in Esashi, Hokkaidō, Japan in 2007. Dedicated to the nature, history, and way of life of Esashi, exhibits include Jōmon and Zoku-Jōmon artefacts, objects from the Satsumon culture, goods brought by the kitamaebune, and materials relating to the Battle of Hakodate.[1][2] |
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| 29．Shellfish Museum of Rankoshi |
| The Shellfish Museum of Rankoshi (蘭越町貝の館, Rankoshi-chō Kai no Yakata) is a museum dedicated to the shellfish of the world in Rankoshi, Hokkaidō, Japan. Ammonites and other aquatic molluscs from Hokkaidō's fossil record are also exhibited. Comprising two buildings, the first opened in 1991 and the second in 1994.[1] In 2017, the Shellfish Museum of Rankoshi together with the University of Toyama announced the discovery of a new species of clione.[2] |
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| 30．Farm Tomita |
| Farm Tomita (ファーム富田) is a farm in Nakafurano, Hokkaido, Japan. Farm Tomita is one of the many farms in the area which create this reputation by planting giant fields of lavender and other colorful crops such as tulips. Right, is a picture of one of the many scenic vistas available to tourists who visit the farm. The farm also sells many products based on the lavender it produces, from lavender scented candles and soap to lavender flavored drinks and ice cream. |
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| 31．Mukawa Town Hobetsu Museum |
| Mukawa Town Hobetsu Museum (むかわ町立穂別博物館, Mukawa Chōritsu Hobetsu Hakubutsukan) is a museum specializing in fossils in Mukawa, Hokkaidō, Japan. The Museum first opened in 1982 as the Hobetsu Museum (穂別博物館), in what was then the town of Hobetsu; with the merger into Mukawa in 2006, the Museum changed its name.[1] |
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| 32．Kayano Shigeru Nibutani Ainu Museum |
| The Kayano Shigeru Nibutani Ainu Museum (萱野茂二風谷アイヌ資料館, Kayano Shigeru Nibutani Ainu Shiryōkan) is a private museum of Ainu materials collected by Kayano Shigeru that opened in the Nibutani area of Biratori, Hokkaidō, Japan in 1992.[1][2] |
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| 33．Historical Museum of the Saru River |
| The Historical Museum of the Saru River (沙流川歴史館, Saru-gawa Rekishi-kan) opened in the Nibutani area of Biratori, Hokkaidō, Japan in 1998, the year after Nibutani Dam was completed.[1] The Museum documents the natural and cultural history of life along the Saru River and has information on nearby chashi. The collection includes 123 objects dating from the fifteenth to the seventeenth centuries that were excavated from the Nibutani Site (二風谷遺跡) and have been designated a Prefectural Cultural Property.[2] The "Cultural Landscape along the Sarugawa River resulting from Ainu Tradition and Modern Settlement" has been designated an Important Cultural Landscape.[3][4] |
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| 34．Nibutani Ainu Culture Museum |
| Nibutani Ainu Culture Museum (平取町立二風谷アイヌ文化博物館, Biratori-chō Nibutani Ainu Bunka Hakubutsukan) opened in the Nibutani area of Biratori, Hokkaidō, Japan in 1992. The collection includes 919 items relating to the daily life of the local Ainu that have been jointly designated an Important Tangible Folk Cultural Property; a further 202 items from the same designation may be found at the nearby Kayano Shigeru Nibutani Ainu Museum (萱野茂二風谷アイヌ資料館).[1][2][3] |
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| 35．Shinhidaka Ainu Museum |
| Shinhidaka Ainu Museum (新ひだか町アイヌ民俗資料館, Shinhidaka-chō Ainu Minzoku Shiryōkan) is a museum of Ainu materials in Shinhidaka, Hokkaidō, Japan. The display has an area dedicated to Shakushain's 1669 revolt over fishing rights on the Shizunai River and swords and iron vessels excavated from local chashi. The collection also includes the skull of an Ezo wolf that has been designated a Municipal Cultural Property. Shinhidaka itself is a relatively new town, formed in 2006 from the merger of the former towns of Mitsuishi and Shizunai. Located in what was once Shizunai, the museum first opened in 1983 as the Shizunai Ainu Museum (静内町アイヌ民俗資料館).[1][2][3] |
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| 36．Chūrui Naumann Elephant Museum |
| The Chūrui Naumann Elephant Museum (忠類ナウマン象記念館, Chūrui Nauman-zō Kinenkan) opened in Makubetsu, Hokkaidō, Japan in 1988. It commemorates the chance discovery of a fossilized Naumann's elephant in Chūrui, now Makubetsu, on 26 July 1969, during construction work on a farm road: the youth who unearthed the initial piece with his pickaxe crying out "this is an elephant's tooth" (「これは象の歯だ」). During the course of three subsequent excavations, some forty-seven bones were recovered, representing 70–80% of the total skeleton. Twenty-two museums in Japan and the rest of the world now house the reconstructed elephant's remains from the Chrui finds.[1] |
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| 37．Ashoro Museum of Paleontology |
| Ashoro Museum of Paleontology (足寄動物化石博物館, Ashoro Dōbutsu Kaseki Hakubutsukan) opened in Ashoro, Hokkaidō, Japan in 1998.[1] The collection includes desmostylians and other fossils from the area as well as geological exhibits relating to the Onnetō Hot Falls.[2][3] |
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| 38．Akkeshi Town Ōta Tonden Kaitaku Memorial Museum |
| Akkeshi Town Ōta Tonden Kaitaku Memorial Museum (厚岸町太田屯田開拓記念館, Akkeshi-chō Kaiji Kinenkan) opened in Akkeshi, Hokkaidō, Japan in 1991 to commemorate the centenary of the settlement of Tondenhei "pioneers" in Ōta.[1][2] |
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| 39．Teshikaga Town Kussharo Kotan Ainu Museum |
| Teshikaga Town Kussharo Kotan Ainu Museum (弟子屈町屈斜路コタンアイヌ民族資料館, Teshikaga-chō Kussharo Kotan Ainu Minzoku Shiryōkan) is a museum of the local Ainu and their culture in Teshikaga, Hokkaido, Japan. It opened in 1982 on the shore of Lake Kussharo and has some 450 items on display, including materials relating to yukar and kotan.[1][2] |
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| 40．Shibetsu Salmon Science Museum |
| Shibetsu Salmon Science Museum (標津サーモン科学館, Shibetsu Sāmon Kagaku-kan) opened in Shibetsu, Hokkaidō, Japan in 1991. It is dedicated to the ecology of the world's salmonids and to Hokkaidō's salmon culture. In 1992 there were 130,000 visitors, while in 2011 the number dropped to 50,000.[1][2][3] |
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