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Hokkaido Museum of Northern Peoples
Ranges Ainu material beside Sami and Inuit - the only museum in Japan that treats the whole circumpolar north as one subject.
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Hokkaido Hakodate Museum of Art
Unusual in collecting calligraphy as its central pillar, around Ogitei Kaneko, who founded modern verse calligraphy.
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Hakodate City Museum
One of the oldest museums in Japan, holding what gathered in this treaty port and the Ainu craft of southern Hokkaido.
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Former Hakodate Public Hall
A timber Western hall on the slope above the port; its original furniture and blue-and-yellow colour scheme show what the trade was worth.
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Hakodate City Museum of Northern Peoples
In a former Bank of Japan branch, holding a major Ainu collection strong in attus, the cloth woven from tree bark.
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Hakodate Orthodox Church
The birthplace of Japanese Orthodoxy: white walls, green domes and the icons inside, all designated together.
HokkaidoArt & CraftsOtaru
Otaru Art Base
Four historic banks and warehouses turned into one museum complex; the stained glass came from English churches.
HokkaidoArt & CraftsOtaru
Otaru City Museum of Art
Three local artists get permanent rooms, among them Yutoku Ichihara, who printed from corroded metal plates.
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Bank of Japan Otaru Museum
By Kingo Tatsuno, architect of Tokyo Station, at the centre of what was called the Wall Street of the north; entry is free.
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Kitaichi Glass Hall 3
A glassworks that made fishing floats and oil lamps; a hall lit by 167 of those lamps became the image of the whole town.
HokkaidoArt & CraftsBibai
Arte Piazza Bibai
A sculptor turned a closed mine town's school and playground into a seven-hectare field of marble you may touch and sit on.
Iwanai
Kida Kinjiro Museum of Art
The painter behind a famous novel's protagonist; he fished for a living, lost his early work to fire, and kept painting.
Iwanai
Arai Memorial Museum of Art
Some three hundred Picasso prints on a hill above the Japan Sea - an unexpected centre of Western art in a small town.
Kutchan
Ogawara Shu Memorial Art Museum
A painter who began in Surrealism, returned home, and spent the rest of his life on one mountain and its animals.
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National Ainu Museum
Japan's only national museum of an indigenous people, presenting Ainu pattern and carving as living practice rather than ethnography.
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Nibutani Ainu Culture Museum
Nibutani's wood carving and bark weaving are the only Ainu crafts designated traditional by the state - and the makers still live here.
HokkaidoArt & CraftsTomakomai
Tomakomai Art Museum
Art and archaeology in one museum, with the paper and port industries that made the town treated as a third strand.
Muroran
Muroran Citizens' Art Museum
A museum built from citizens' donations in a steel town, and collecting the paintings its factories provoked.
HokkaidoArt & CraftsEbetsu
Ebetsu Ceramic Art Center
In a brick-making town: exhibitions of ceramics beside a workshop where visitors handle the clay themselves.
Fukagawa
Fukagawa Art Hall Toshukan
A small museum inside a commercial building by the station, built on two local painters and changing its shows often.
HokkaidoArt & CraftsTakikawa
Takikawa Art and Natural History Museum
Art and natural history under one roof - Sorachi printmakers beside the fossil sea cow dug up in the city.
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Pierson Memorial Museum
Designed by William Merrell Vories as a missionary couple's home, and the leading example of his work in Hokkaido.
Mashike
Former Honma Family Residence
The shop and residence of a family enriched by herring, kept complete - draper, shipowner and household in one Important Cultural Property.
Toyako
Toyako Museum of Art
A small municipal gallery by the lake, showing landscape and daily life in a district that has lived through repeated eruptions.