Culture, design & architecture

The region’s major fine-art museum, with 5,000+ works and a notable glass collection.

Museum programming with a large outdoor sculpture park in a 40-hectare forest.

Nature, regional history and Ainu culture, including mammoth skeletons.

An open-air museum of 52 restored buildings from the 1800s–early 1900s.

The dedicated place to learn about Ainu culture.

City history and a preserved courtroom in the former 1926 Court of Appeals.

A small exhibition inside one of the city’s best-known Meiji-era buildings.

1972 Winter Olympics history with ski-jump and bobsled simulators.