[2025 Hakodate Attraction] Travel Guide for Hakodate City Museum of Northern Peoples (Updated Jul)

first place of entering hokkaido Really it’s the name of the place. There is an anchor buried on the ground to indicate the moment. The location of the anchor is near tram station suehirocho , along the sea and near by Maritime self defence force base and Hakodate City Musuem of Northern People.#bucketlistreboot

#JapanTravel Hakodate City ⭐️Northern Ethnic Museum⭐️ Hakodate City Northern Ethnic Museum displays materials on the conflicts with Russia. It is a larger museum than you might think, and if you take your time, you can easily see it in an hour. Since you can see interesting exhibits that are hard to see elsewhere, I recommend purchasing a Hakodate Museum package. 🎯Japan 040-0053 Hokkaido, Hakodate, Suehirocho, 21−7 Hakodate Northern Ethnic Museum #Hakodate #Northern Ethnic Museum #Hakodate City Northern Ethnic Museum #Hakodate Travel

#thingstodo A very interesting museum about the Northern Peope’s culture and way of living. They displayed some very impressive artefacts which showed Hokkaido was such a harsh place to live in before the modern times. There’s also some interesting facts about the historical bank building which housed the museum.You can learn a lot about Hokkaido's history and the native Ainu people here. Each plaque has an English translation of the museum director's comments. They seem like a very playful and enthusiastic person😂 You can get Ainu merchandise too, but I recommend the Ainu souvenir shop Kamuiikoro nearby if it's open.

#thingstodo This was a much bigger and more thorough museum than I had expected. It went into lots of aspects about the lives of northern peoples, from clothing to language to daily life. I was glad to see that the museum acknowledged that the encounters between these peoples and the Japanese was often explicitly colonial in nature, and that some of the Japanese sources that are left behind and that are relied on to tell us about the people thus have to be handled carefully. There was information in English pretty much everywhere even if some of the translations were sometimes a bit off. There were 2 videos as well, both very informative, although one of them didn't have English subtitles. The captions, which are written by the director, are some of the funniest and cutest I've ever read in a museum. It was a bit weird to have the director cracking jokes in the captions but I found it quite endearing too! Overall, really great museum :) There is an entrance fee but you can couple it with some of the other attractions in the area and save money. I got a student discount too which made my visit to 3 places about 300 yen, and I reckon that's a bargain.