Asahikawa (Hokkaido)
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Tourist attraction 7 election in Asahikawa which can be enjoyed without also getting wet in the day when it rains

Property with the impression is also many in the day when the weather has changed for the worse suddenly in Asahikawa. It's one of the delicious tastes of the Hokkaido travel to touch vast great outdoors, but I'll introduce recommendation tourist attraction where it can also be satisfied with charm in Asahikawa at indoor.

The showroom where the wooden warmth which can touch Asahikawa furniture floats

More than 30 companies around Asahikawa-shi are Asahikawa design center where permanent collection revelation, twice a year and temporary exhibition are sponsored.
More than 30 companies around Asahikawa-shi are Asahikawa design center where permanent collection revelation, twice a year and temporary exhibition are sponsored.

It's learned even that Asahikawa-shi circled by grand Daxue Shan ancestry such as Asahidake has abundant woods. Furniture making was being performed for more than 100 years using its wealth. By a good wood and high designability, worldwide, known Asahikawa furniture. It's Asahikawa design center to keep the booth mainly by a manufacturer of more than 30 around Asahikawa-shi. Various events is held with the theme of living on the temporary exhibition opened twice a year abundantly through wooden furniture.

I touch the sophisticated design and wooden warmth.

The world of wooden furniture is introduced by temporary exhibition of twice a year and charm every manufacturer is told by the enterprise booth.
The world of wooden furniture is introduced by temporary exhibition of twice a year and charm every manufacturer is told by the enterprise booth.

If it's sensed that a tree is existence close to a life, it's to the booth every enterprise. Furniture with the sophisticated design is original and only something excellent to make the feeling that I also want such furniture in the living room in a home. There is also pleasure which can meet the design with which work for the wooden craftsmen familiar with softness I have sparkles. It's possible to buy the furniture exhibited of course, so it would be better to do a liked furniture search.

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The inside of the building which has complete set of one something traditional gently from the near future-like design. Japanese traditional culture is felt through wooden warmth.

Asahikawa design center
  • The addressAsahikawa-shi, Hokkaido Nagayama 2 article 10-Chome 1-35 MAP
  • DirectionIt's a car from JR Asahikawa Station, about 19 minutes
  • Bus DirectionFrom JR Asahikawa Station, embussment, "Nagayama 2 article, 10-Chome" getting off and about 1 minute on foot
  • Business hours10:00-17:00
  • Days closedTuesday (A holiday is removed.), the end of the year, the beginning of the year and Lantern Festival
  • AdmissionFree
  • TEL0166-48-4135
  • ParkingFree

The "encounter with" the science which starts from a wonder a person in every generation can enjoy fully

The large planetarium where the state of the starry sky seen at Asahikawa is reproduced
The large planetarium where the state of the starry sky seen at Asahikawa is reproduced

Indoor is divided into a zone of 4, a permanent exhibition hall, an experimental training room, an observatory and a planetarium. The dome type planetarium where even the inside is on the 1st floor is highlights. A projection machine made by the standard Carl Zeiss company projects a starry sky in the whole sky onto beauty of the starry sky in the whole dome, and its scale is the maximum level in the way. Everyone, Experience, can, the constellation which is considered layout and seems by a season is also introduced to a universal design. Permanent display is also divided into a corner in the earth, the universe and a northern land, and even a small child has the explanation which can be understood and the equipment scientific Experience can do.

I touch outer space full of romance and also master scientific knowledge.

The sun sunspot observation is continued from the old days most as a public observatory with a telescope for astronomical observation.
The sun sunspot observation is continued from the old days most as a public observatory with a telescope for astronomical observation.

If indoor Property is enjoyed fully, I'll also go to an observatory in a roof. If it's rainy weather, you can't make observations of the stars, but it's possible to see 2 sets, the reflective KASEGUREN system large astronomical telescope of 8m dome caliber 65cm and a refraction astronomical telescope of 5m dome caliber 20cm nearby. 65cm reflective telescope, in the way, the 3rd size. You may be able to imagine a space scale sense. The unique food which imagined a goods related to science and astronomy and space food is being sold to a museum shop on the 1st floor, so it's recommended.

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Tsutomu Osako's planetarium and observatory are fun beyond the generation, science, Experience, can, to the extent a Experience section can't finish playing in 1 day.

Asahikawa-shi science museum "Saipal"
  • The addressAsahikawa-shi, Hokkaido Miyamae 1 article 3-Chome 3-32 MAP
  • DirectionIt's a car from JR Asahikawa Station, about 4 minutes
  • Bus DirectionFrom JR Asahikawa Station, embussment, "in front of science museum" getting off and about 1 minute on foot
  • Business hours9:30-17:00 (last entry 16:30)
  • Days closedWeekday in Monday (in case of a holiday, next weekday), New Year's (I correct on December 30-on January 4 and open it on January 2.) and the end of every month
  • AdmissionNo charge below the permanent exhibition room (1 day) adult of 410 yen, the high school student of 280 yen and the junior high school student
    No charge below the planetarium (once) adult of 330 yen, the high school student of 220 yen and the junior high school student
    Permanent exhibition hall (1 day)+ planetarium (once) No charge below the adult of 520 yen, the high school student of 350 yen and the junior high school student
  • TEL0166-31-3186
  • ParkingFree

The museum where the lifetime when it's in a birthplace of Akutagawa prize author and Yasushi Inoue can be followed

An autograph manuscript exhibits it in the inside of the building where a right study was reconstructed in a house in Tokyo capital Setagaya-ku where Yasushi Inoue lived.
An autograph manuscript exhibits it in the inside of the building where a right study was reconstructed in a house in Tokyo capital Setagaya-ku where Yasushi Inoue lived.

Yasushi Inoue who had a big influence on Showa literature including Akutagawa prize winning a prize by "bullfight" in 1950 (1950) and played an active part by postwar Japanese literary circles. "Yasushi Inoue museum" then, an autographic coverage notebook, an autograph manuscript and the material by which literary work and the artistical work with which I was on friendly terms understand a life for 83 years are exhibited. A study and a drawing room in the house where I lived in Setagaya-ku are reconstructed in museum, and comment is stuck on an aisle wall, so how to have time in the room finds out that I go around while reading.

The drawing room where a great deal of documents and Persia carpets could lay and be in trouble

The drawing room which was circled by a document and a book which equal some bookshelves to the ceiling
The drawing room which was circled by a document and a book which equal some bookshelves to the ceiling

Even if it's expected of something of the probability that I hit the stone falling from heaven strangely to the press who throngs every time I go up to Nobel Prize in literature candidate from 1981 (1981), I say that the wassail which was called "No Meru prize" of a consolation party in this drawing room I hope that which is all right was held. It's seen, and to be surrounded the episode which kept corresponding politely though I remember, understands the press's feeling from the experience which was a reporter, and is also pleasant.

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Great writer's worldview, Experience, can, valuable museum. The state of the writing at that time is reproduced faithfully in the study reconstructed and a drawing room.

Yasushi Inoue museum
  • The address7-Chome of Asahikawa-shi, Hokkaido spring sunshine 5 article MAP
  • DirectionIt's a car from JR Asahikawa Station, about 20 minutes
  • Bus DirectionFrom JR Asahikawa Station, embussment, "in front of spring sunshine garden" getting off and about 2 minutes on foot
  • Business hours9:00-17:00 (for the last entry, 16:30)
  • Days closedMonday (in case of a holiday, the next day), December 30 New Year's-January 4) and 6 Monday-September are open everyday.
  • AdmissionNo charge below the public of 300 yen, the high school student of 150 yen and the junior high school student
  • TEL0166-51-1188
  • ParkingFree

Making alcoholic beverages of the traditional culture which is also drawn by Ukiyoe and inherited from the Edo Period continuously

The sake of "Otokoyama" taught by subsoil water in Daxue Shan
The sake of "Otokoyama" taught by subsoil water in Daxue Shan

The sake which is taught using the spring water which is calling "water of life prolongation longevity" and is enjoying. The reputed wine which is to the extent a wine cask of "Otokoyama" is also presented to Tokugawa family to inherit the shogunate in the Edo Period, and is also drawn by Ukiyoe of Kitagawa Utamaro and Utagawa Kuniyoshi, until it's possible, it can be visited. (11 Monday-March in acquirement time) the material for which a tool of old sake brewing is valuable is exhibited in Property where it's here from the 1st floor to the 3rd floor.

The sake of a superior brand as "Otokoyama" loved from everyone from the Edo Period

The display for which the history of "Otokoyama", historical material and Ukiyoe are valuable
The display for which the history of "Otokoyama", historical material and Ukiyoe are valuable

The Refined Sake for which Yamamoto Sanemon who was doing sake brewing at a place by Hyogo and Itami in the Edo Period took the name from Otokoyama Yawatamiya "Otokoyama". The Yamasaki sake brewing doing sake brewing from 1887 (1887) in Hokkaido (record of Otokoyama Corp.) succeeded and was being inherited continuously by the northern earth. Liquor from bottom of subsoil water in Daxue Shan and the severe climate climate and neat dry tanrei is made. The taste nature in Hokkaido produces can also be called the feature, so please enjoy tasting by all means on the 1st floor.

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I may hope that you drive expectation the far past while tasting the liquor maybe people in the Edo Period tasted, too.

Otokoyama Sake brewing material Tate.
  • The addressAsahikawa-shi, Hokkaido Nagayama 2 article 7-Chome 1-33 MAP
  • DirectionIt's a car from JR Asahikawa Station, about 14 minutes
  • Bus DirectionFrom JR Asahikawa Station, embussment, "Nagayama 2 article, 6-Chome" getting off and about 2 minutes on foot
  • Business hours9:00-17:00 and Sakagura (sake brewery) opening (February 2nd Sunday) are 10:00-15:00.
  • Days closedYear-end and new year holidays (December 31 and January 1-the 3rd)
  • AdmissionFree
  • TEL0166-47-7080
  • ParkingFree

I meet history in Ainu and culture.

Great outdoors in Hokkaido and people's history can be learned at a substratum floor hole in wide space.
Great outdoors in Hokkaido and people's history can be learned at a substratum floor hole in wide space.

The museum of "Asahikawa-shi heavy snow crystal hole" is 2 layer structure in the upper part floor and a substratum floor, and history in Hokkaido can learn. On a substratum floor, "the animals and plants and the person which survive intense cold" are a main theme. Material related to nature and civilization is exhibited, and it's possible to know the geological feature of Asahikawa, the lay of land, the climate and the ecosystem. It'll be the valuable chance it's possible to know what kind of device the people who have survived in the severe great outdoors have done when.

Living and culture in the respective times when it's being transmitted beyond time

Restored pit dwelling. Living way finds out that I look stealthily at the inside.
Restored pit dwelling. Living way finds out that I look stealthily at the inside.

Settlers' represented living is introduced to people and a militiaman in Ainu where I'm an indigenous people from ancient people on the upper part floor. Dwelling in each time such as CHISE where people in a pit dwelling and Ainu lived and the militiaman shop which was militiaman's residence reconstructs restoration in a new location. Living articles are exhibited, so it's told right at what kind of residence you lived.

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It would be to visit one of the modern history you can't touch so much by a school education and be the good chance to know Hokkaido.

Asahikawa-shi museum
  • The address7-Chome of Asahikawa-shi, Hokkaido Shinto music and dance numbers 3 article (in Asahikawa-shi heavy snow crystal hole) MAP
  • DirectionIt's a car from JR Asahikawa Station, about 5 minutes
  • Business hours9:00-17:00 (last entry 16:30)
  • Days closed2nd* 4th Monday (in case of a holiday, the next day), New Year's (December 30-January 4) and 6 Monday-September are open everyday.
  • AdmissionPermanent collection An adult of 350 yen and a high school student of 230 yen, small size and junior high school student no charge.
  • TEL0166-69-2004
  • ParkingFree

The museum of art where author's painting, copperplate engraving and sculpture on the North Hokkaido relation are collected

Museum of art plans display of woodcarving, a carpenter accomplishment and a post by the domestic and abroad author who collected periodically.
Museum of art plans display of woodcarving, a carpenter accomplishment and a post by the domestic and abroad author who collected periodically.

It's the museum of art in the Tokiwa park where relaxation of Asahikawa-shi people is also a place as a cultural base of fine arts in a North Hokkaido area. The various sculptures which seem to be Asahikawa where a sculpture is a town are exhibited in the park, of the collection valuable at inside of the building, you can come variously. Furniture and carpenter industry also help with a nature of the locality blessed with forest resources, and are popular museum of art Asahikawa-shi, so domestic and abroad, in spite of, many wooden modeling works for the author who flooded the ability are being collected.

Wooden modeling work with which a wide entrance hall is also dotted

The entrance hall where the sunlight put in from a glass window produces a gentle contrast
The entrance hall where the sunlight put in from a glass window produces a gentle contrast

When I'm an excellent author on the North Hokkaido relation, a painting, a copperplate engraving, a sculpture and a work of arts and crafts are various for the collection. Temporary exhibition and the Special exhibition which introduces a special collection show and a domestic and abroad excellent work are held in the 1st exhibition hall. The temporary exhibition which introduces a work of art museum possession from the various angles is held in the 2nd exhibition hall, so I'd hope that you go to enjoy an encounter with a work.

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The valuable museum of art where you can also meet a domestic and abroad artwork as well as authors' work on the North Hokkaido relation.

Hokkaido Asahikawa Museum of Art
  • The addressIn Tokiwakoen, Asahikawa-shi, Hokkaido MAP
  • DirectionIt's a car from JR Asahikawa Station, about 8 minutes
  • Bus DirectionFrom JR Asahikawa Station, embussment, "4 articles, 4-Chome" getting off and about 5 minutes on foot
  • Days closedMonday (It'll be closed next Tuesday at a holiday. I correct and open during an art week.), New Year's (December 29-January 3) and a display kae period.
  • AdmissionIt's different every 1st exhibition room admission and exhibition.
    The 2nd exhibition room admission The public of 260 yen and Ko Ou of 150 yen
  • TEL0166-25-2577
  • ParkingFree

Zoo in the Japan most north where the vivid form of the animals can be seen imminently

It's possible to see the polar bear which sees the form that it's being swum over glass and goes around nearby.
It's possible to see the polar bear which sees the form that it's being swum over glass and goes around nearby.

The device which can observe the form of the animal origin imminently, everywhere, Asahiyama-zoo where it's done and is famous nationwide. It's possible to see the animal which lives vividly. The form that a polar bear is wild at a huge pool, just like, to be able to meet the form that I dive and catch food. The views seen over devised tempered glass are highlights saying everything of behavior can be seen. Such as the penguin which strolls through the snow top can be seen imminently a season of snow, besides the view Hokkaido is also here.

The "active display" which can observe the form of the animal origin

Of Property which could think I get the ability of the animal origin and behavior, variously.
Of Property which could think I get the ability of the animal origin and behavior, variously.

At Asahiyama-zoo, everywhere, indoor Property is established, so it's possible to observe the form of the animals in spite of the weather. When I'm lucky, the form of the chimpanzee that I take shelter from the rain may be judged from a peak of Property. I'm also relieved at an umbrella's being rented to only use in the park for free of charge again.

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The form of the wolf by which it also lived in the way formerly is judged from Mori of a wolf who imagined and made a forest in Hokkaido 100 years ago. EZOOOKAMI lived in the way, but Shinn phosphorus wolf is extinct and is raised at Asahiyama-zoo.

Asahiyama-zoo
  • The addressHigashiasahikawachokuranuma, Asahikawa-shi, Hokkaido. MAP
  • DirectionIt's a car from JR Asahikawa Station, about 23 minutes
  • Bus DirectionFrom JR Asahikawa Station, embussment, "an article of eastern Asahikawa industrial complex, 2-Chome" getting off and about 13 minutes on foot
  • Business hoursApril 29, 2022-October 15 9:30-17:15
    October 16-November 3 9:30-16:30
    November 11-April 9, 2023 10:30-15:30
  • Days closedApril 8-April 28 and November 4-November 10 and December 30-January 1 of next year (It's changed every fiscal year.)
  • AdmissionAdult (more than high school student) no charge below 1000 yen and the junior high school student
  • TEL0166-36-1104
  • ParkingThere is private pay Parking in no charge and neighborhood.
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