* Experience it's seen which tastes. The spot which can sense Ainu culture in Shiraoi-cho

c ️(official goods) Ainu race cultural assets company

Shiraoi-cho where Ainu cultural promotion base "UPOPOI (folk symbiosis symbolic space)" opened in 2020. There are also many spots which can feel the Ainu culture which was a place by the cultural folklore of the Ainu race and was rooted in living in a town. I see Ainu culture and touch, and,* Experience, can, I'll introduce the store where charm in Shiraoi can be tasted while touching Property and local people.

History of the Ainu race and culture, sense

"Plaza display" of "state Ainu Museum of Ethnology". c where a traditional costume of the Ainu race and a living tool are exhibited,️ (official goods) Ainu race cultural assets company
"Plaza display" of "state Ainu Museum of Ethnology". The c ️(official goods) Ainu race cultural assets company by which a traditional costume of the Ainu race and a living tool are exhibited

Sending base of the Ainu culture which opened in July, 2020. The Japan's first national museum "state Ainu Museum of Ethnology" and Experience type field museum "national folk symbiosis park" etc. of which you can deepen understanding of Ainu culture and history are provided a vast site facing Poroto lake with. Restoration material by a present-day industrial artist as well as historical material are also exhibited a lot in state Ainu Museum of Ethnology, and there is an impression. Ainu handicraft and UPOPOIORIJINARUGUZZU sell it at a museum shop in the 1st floor of museum and a shop in an entrance ridge. Besides I get the gift I don't have.

Traditional life and entertainment, Experience, I feel sick for a stage of sound and light.

Ainu ancient rite dance "IYOMANTERIㇺ SE (dance of soul feed of a bear)". c which is dragged into rhythm of the trolling which surges and a beautiful costume,️ (official goods) Ainu race cultural assets company
Ainu ancient rite dance "IYOMANTERISEㇺ (dance of soul feed of a bear)". Rhythm of the trolling which surges and the c ️(official goods) Ainu race cultural assets company dragged into a beautiful costume

"UPOPOI" is an Ainu, "To sing (in large numbers)." A wish to the society by which various people can symbiose is included.
The traditional lifestyle and entertainment which are the Ainu race in the vast site, Experience, can, it's also dotted with Property a lot. Experience which can taste cooking Experience of enjoyment of Ainu ancient rite dance, a making demonstration by an industrial artist and Ainu cooking only here is made. Further, an order ticket and the special charge are sometimes also necessary to the other Experience programming for which reservation is necessary respectively for entrance of UPOPOI and an inspection in state Ainu Museum of Ethnology. I'll recommend to check the official website beforehand.

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4-Saturday . Sunday . national holiday in October (on August 13th-the 28th, every day) and the outdoor projection mapping show held from 19:00 "god sinfonia" are night program which makes the creation myth transmitted to Ainu a motif. The showy stage a picture and a flash interweave with sound is must-see.

c️ (official goods) Ainu race cultural assets company  A※ image.
c ️(official goods) Ainu race cultural assets company A※ image.
UPOPOI (folk symbiosis symbolic space)
  • The addressWakakusacho, Shiraoi-cho, Shiraoi-gun, Hokkaido 2-Chome 3 MAP
  • DirectionFrom JR Shiraoi Station, about 10 minutes on foot
  • Business hours9:00-18:00 (There is a fluctuation in closed time by time.)
  • Days closedMonday (in case of a holiday, weekday holiday after the next day) and New Year's
  • AdmissionNo charge below the adult of 1200 yen, the high school student of 600 yen and the junior high school student
  • TEL0144-82-3914
  • ParkingPayment required
  • MemoPurchase of "UPOPOI admission ticket" and date reservation for "museum entrance order ticket" are possible from official website.

The atelier and the gallery a spirited Ainu Traditional Pottery person does

An existence sense of decorated ITA as well as the ritualistic implements called Ina cormorant (tray) overwhelms the person who sees.
An existence sense of decorated ITA as well as the ritualistic implements called Ina cormorant (tray) overwhelms the person who sees.

Mr. Renpei Mizuno's atelier and gallery authorized by Ainu Traditional Pottery person by the historical youngest person in 2011. It's possible to see ITA where a wood and a carving knife are a living tool in the Ainu race as well as the making site where I line up and a work of MAKIRI (penknife) etc.. Close and delicate design and the pleasant texture completed by soot (soot) and oil are a style of Ainu tradition. Mr. Mizuno says "It's attracted by the sensitivity of the Ainu race which gives beautiful design to the tool used by oneself, not to show it to a person." Though I don't adapt modernistically through a traditional method, a soul of the maker who lodges naturally captivates mind of a man of today and doesn't suffer.

The coffee carried in ITA and direct conversation are enjoyed.

The atmosphere to which the space where tradition in industrial interior and Ainu coexists is peculiar
The atmosphere to which the space where tradition in industrial interior and Ainu coexists is peculiar

The artistic space where a gallery was born from collaboration with a mortar modeling author of town residence and Mr. Masaki Wada. That a stuffed animal of Japanese deer and steller's sea-eagle and woodcarving arts and crafts are exactly, a wonder and a heart harmonize and calm down. A cafe is also established attached to a gallery, and coffee and beer put, and are offered to ITA. It's said that it takes about 1 year from an order, but to get Mr. Mizuno's work it's possible to buy a coaster of woodcarving and small articles of a pin badge at the place. It's also fun to choose a gift only of one in the world while chattering with Mr. frank Mizuno.

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The gusto from which the coffee made by a hand drip doesn't take each serving of defeat at a speciality store. When fitting, timing is Mr. Mizuno, and I can receive made coffee.

Rempei Mizuno
  • The address2-Chome 4-8, Higashimachi, Shiraoi-cho, Shiraoi-gun, Hokkaido MAP
  • DirectionFrom JR Shiraoi Station, about 6 minutes on foot
  • Business hours13:00-17:00
  • Days closedMonday
  • ParkingFree

In the taste of my mother inherited by people in Ainu, gusto

"OHAU Set Meal" 800 yen. The taste full of delicacy by which the flavor of the salmon and the root crop dissolved in mellow konbu dashi
"OHAU Set Meal" 800 yen. The taste full of delicacy by which the flavor of the salmon and the root crop dissolved in mellow konbu dashi

General corporate judicial person The Ainu cultural sending cafe Shiraoi Ainu society established in 2019. It's possible to taste a traditional food in Ainu "OHAU" in a lunchtime. OHAU is the soup which boiled the Japanese deer, the fish, the wild vegetable and the vegetables I get in the respective land and seasoned it with salt and is said to be roots of local cuisine in Hokkaido "Sanpei-style Fish and Vegetable Soup". One piece which was cooked politely so that OHAU in PIRASARE boiled a root crop of big slice, potato, carrot, Japanese radish and burdock of home-grown salmon, and it didn't collapse. Be absorbed, a stomach and a heart are big satisfaction in the gentle taste as the taste of my mother and eating responding of volume perfection.

The traditional culture inherited by people in Ainu is sent.

A work of Ainu embroidery and Traditional Pottery items are exhibited in the store, and the purchase is also possible.
A work of Ainu embroidery and Traditional Pottery items are exhibited in the store, and the purchase is also possible.

The meaning that "PIRASARE" says "I'll open." in an Ainu. A wish to people's circle's expanding using Ainu culture as a core is included. It's the warm atmosphere in the store where a costume of the Ainu race and a mat were displayed. The herb tea people in Ainu were having "ENTO tea" is stood for free of charge, and I loose comfortably. There is also a display sales corner of the embroidery attachment and the woodcarving work of arts and crafts a person of Ainu embroidery club in Shiraoi-cho manufactured, and it's possible to peep at the handwork rooted in people's life in Ainu.

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When a store isn't crowded, I come from everyone of Staff/staff member by hearing a traditional food in Ainu and the story which concerns handwork. Please speak any time.

KAFE PIRASARE
  • The address1-chome 1-1, Honcho, Shiraoi-cho, Shiraoi-gun, Hokkaido Shiraoi-cho community center 1st floor MAP
  • DirectionFrom JR Shiraoi Station, about 8 minutes on foot
  • Business hours10:00-13:30
  • Days closedMonday and Saturday . holiday Sunday
  • TEL090-1384-0141
  • ParkingFree

The one and only worldview overwhelming originality overflows

The numbers of the work mysterious including "god in a forest" (the center) I have begun to carve Jin who lodges at a tree on which equal.
The numbers of the work mysterious including "god in a forest" (the center) I have begun to carve Jin who lodges at a tree on which equal.

A creation woodcarving speciality store where it takes pride in its best line-up in Shiraoi-cho. The late head of the family manages a Japanese-style hotel, Japanese-style cooking and folkcraft product trading house largely soon after the war. It's said that Mr. Shuji Arai who succeeded to business from my father learned woodcarving technology by self-education. Closeness like the Ainu art mixes with life force like African art, and its character is being open-minded and is flooding originality. It's Mr. Arai's style it's confronted with a tree and to carve the image which entered mind without sketches. There are no same works as one so, and each makes them feel the mysterious power as if it's pregnant with a soul.

Walked history as well as people in Ainu, everywhere.

Inside of the building the woodcarving work with the abundant individuality equals, a museum, just like.
Inside of the building the woodcarving work with the abundant individuality equals, a museum, just like.

Arai arts and crafts house where a woodcarving teacher of the Ainu race was employed from time of the late head of the family and a woodcarving bear of a sightseeing gift and NIPOPO (doll) were being made. It's said that the people in Ainu were informing the posture which respects the Ainu Bunka when Shiraoi was well-grounded, doesn't separate and attends about deep trust. The woodcarving work people in Ainu in addition to Mr. Arai's work manufactured is being also sold a lot at present at the said house. When the lie of the hair of the bear different depending on makers and an expression of NIPOPO are being seen carefully one by one, they seem to forget time. Itself may be able to call the space where passion to woodcarving beyond a race swirls the one and only work.

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A creative hand-carved door which leads to the inside of store from an entrance is also Mr. Arai's work. Indeed an entrance to different space.

Arai arts and crafts house
  • The address3-Chome 3-26, Omachi, Shiraoi-cho, Shiraoi-gun, Hokkaido MAP
  • DirectionFrom JR Shiraoi Station, about 4 minutes on foot
  • Business hours10:00-16:00 (There is a possibility of the fluctuation.)
  • Days closedYear-end and new year holidays
  • TEL0144-82-2823
  • ParkingFree

The Experience program from which living space of Ainu tradition can be learned is a lot.

The salmon leather shoes and the mat a participant of a Experience program manufactured. I'm surprised at the high finish of the percentage of completion.
The salmon leather shoes and the mat a participant of a Experience program manufactured. I'm surprised at the high finish of the percentage of completion.

Experience exchange Property which tells tradition in Ainu and culture for nature and revival of IORU of people in Ainu who symbiosed (traditional living space). "CHIKISANI" is an Ainu which means a tree of Hal elm. Various Experience programs based on IORU in each of sea, river and mountain are conducted in CHIKISANI through 1 year. The traditional life by which "Male, fishing" Experience which catches a salmon using extraction of wild vegetable, cooking and a traditional tool in sampling Experience and Ainu with the relation in Ainu culture and making Experience of the salmon leather shoes called "CHE (maru) KE" are people in Ainu, Experience, can, a chance is prepared.

The profundity of the Ainu culture which touches and feels

Much, the exhibit you can take in your hand and see can also learn the realistic feel of a material and actual how to use at a surface.
Much, the exhibit you can take in your hand and see can also learn the realistic feel of a material and actual how to use at a surface.

The Ainu handicraft a person in Shiraoi-cho manufactured, a restored traditional banca and a plant with Ainu culture and deep concerning are exhibited in Property. Ainu correlation chart note and material of a DVD are also enriched, and compact space is filled with the information with the thick density closely.
It'll be expected also to do the match you realize from now on in CHIKISANI of symbiosis with nature. For example it's said that they're also planning the long-winded program which can sense one from vegetable seeding extraction, processing and production of a handicraft. A Experience program is a preliminary reservation system. Please inquire in the telephone for more information.

There is Shirao, IORU office CHIKISANI
  • The address2-Chome 6-4, Suehirocho, Shiraoi-cho, Shiraoi-gun, Hokkaido MAP
  • DirectionFrom JR Shiraoi Station, about 14 minutes on foot
  • Business hours9:00-16:00
  • Days closedMonday (It's absent on the next day in case of a holiday.) and New Year's
  • TEL0144-82-6301
  • ParkingFree
  • MemoA Experience program needs preliminary reservation in the telephone.

Charm of the Ainu arts and crafts with which I gasp in Shiraoi is sent.

The sword area made by the traditional material and technique, the volume bag and one point thing for which all Tama rhinoceros (necklace) etc. is valuable
The sword area made by the traditional material and technique, the volume bag and one point thing for which all Tama rhinoceros (necklace) etc. is valuable

The challenge shop where the local enterpriser chosen by public offering in Shiraoi-cho works on charm sending in Shiraoi. 3 stores have begun to run it from spring in 2022 at a building which neighbors the Tourist Information Center near "UPOPOI" "Poroto MINTARA". Then the one "pon epere (PONEPERE" sells the miscellaneous goods the people who participate in Ainu arts and crafts at a town manufactured. It's said that you're astonishing to a traditional mat in Ainu, the volume bag and a beautiful Tama rhinoceros with the people who were in line and visited behind UPOPOI.

The item enjoyed by an envoy daily also enriches beautiful Ainu design.

It gathers richly from a traditional costume in Ainu to miscellaneous goods which also agree with present-day fashion.
It gathers richly from a traditional costume in Ainu to miscellaneous goods which also agree with present-day fashion.

The tote bag, the coaster, the T-shirt and the accessary as which Ainu design was treated also line up the item which can enjoy beauty of the Ainu design in the daily living a lot. There is a key chain which remade the old woodcarving handicraft found from a depot in a closed craftwork shop, and besides it fits the person who would like to look for the gift he doesn't have, too. There is Shirao and the beauty salon which can be used with "Shiraoi placenta" and the pet to which an essence and marine products using the placenta picked out from a placenta of Shiraoi cow in addition to PONEPERE are sold "KINKA" opens a challenge shop.

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There is Shirao and there are also a tourist information corner in Shiraoi-cho and a product shop in "Poroto MINTARA" which neighbors a challenge shop, and it fits while taking a break to drop in. There is also display of playground equipment and a steam train in outside, so it's also recommended to with children.

Shirao is here and challenges, shop
  • The addressWakakusacho, Shiraoi-cho, Shiraoi-gun, Hokkaido 1-chome 1 MAP
  • DirectionFrom JR Shiraoi Station, about 4 minutes on foot
  • Business hours10:00-17:00
  • Days closedMonday
  • TELPONEPERE: 090-9515-3327
    Shiraoi placenta: 080-1976-6433
    KINKA:090-6264-5882
  • ParkingFree

The work full of individuality of the handmade author of Shiraoi residence is in a row.

The paper item delicate Ainu embroidery miscellaneous goods and illustrator of the Ainu race designed is popular with ladies.
The paper item delicate Ainu embroidery miscellaneous goods and illustrator of the Ainu race designed is popular with ladies.

The cafe to which the handmade miscellaneous goods which made the author coming into action at a town on the concept of "Good thing sending in Shiraoi!" the center are sold. It's various from a masterpiece of the kimono and the tapestries which did traditional Ainu embroidery to miscellaneous goods of the embroidery small fry who arranged for Ainu design modernly, Pottery items and a delicate hand-carved accessary, a colorful item equals. When I'm looking one by one, I find out well that the handwork grown by history of the Ainu race is rooting daily life in Shiraoi tightly beyond the generation.

The space where people gather with nature under a frank owner

A handmade workshop is also held at any time at cafe space with an open atmosphere.
A handmade workshop is also held at any time at cafe space with an open atmosphere.

The cafe space where a kimono, a mat, a woodcarving bear and antique miscellaneous goods of the Ainu race taken over from an acquaintance were displayed also enriches Chinese tea, coffee and a lunch menu. I can ask that this store is loved by the form of the people who relax while enjoying a chatter with the frank owner widely locally. "RANAPIRIKA" is a ring similar to an Ainu, but an owner is said to be the scientific name of EZOAKAGAERU he likes very much. They seem able to say a shop's name suitable for expectation of the owner who says "Something Ainu culture is close from the past at Shiraoi. A work of Ainu folk art and arts and crafts would like also to introduce something good in Shiraoi including all except for that.".

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The real taste with the private roast beans of "chopsticks and, coffee house" by which coffee continues for more than 40 years in Shiraoi-cho. You can spend comfortable time while touching charm of manufacturing in Shiraoi.

Rana Pirica (RANAPIRIKA)
  • The address2-Chome 1-4, Omachi, Shiraoi-cho, Shiraoi-gun, Hokkaido MAP
  • DirectionFrom JR Shiraoi Station, about 6 minutes on foot
  • Business hours10:00-16:30
  • Days closedMonday . Sunday and holiday (There is temporary closing.)
  • TEL0144-61-1733
  • ParkingI don't have that.
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