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北海道 · Art & museums

Abashiri City Museum of Art

網走市道東

One of the older municipal museums in the province, built around Kaichi Igushi's paintings of the Okhotsk fisheries.

北海道 · Art & museums

Hokkaido Museum of Northern Peoples

網走市道東

Ranges Ainu material beside Sami and Inuit - the only museum in Japan that treats the whole circumpolar north as one subject.

北海道 · Art & museums

Hokkaido Hakodate Museum of Art

函館市道南

Unusual in collecting calligraphy as its central pillar, around Ogitei Kaneko, who founded modern verse calligraphy.

北海道 · Art & museums

Hakodate City Museum

函館市道南

One of the oldest museums in Japan, holding what gathered in this treaty port and the Ainu craft of southern Hokkaido.

北海道 · Art & museums

Former Hakodate Public Hall

函館市道南

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.

北海道 · Art & museums

Hakodate City Museum of Northern Peoples

函館市道南

In a former Bank of Japan branch, holding a major Ainu collection strong in attus, the cloth woven from tree bark.

北海道 · Art & museums

Hakodate Orthodox Church

函館市道南

The birthplace of Japanese Orthodoxy: white walls, green domes and the icons inside, all designated together.

北海道 · Art & museums

Otaru Art Base

小樽市道央

Four historic banks and warehouses turned into one museum complex; the stained glass came from English churches.

北海道 · Art & museums

Otaru City Museum of Art

小樽市道央

Three local artists get permanent rooms, among them Yutoku Ichihara, who printed from corroded metal plates.

北海道 · Art & museums

Bank of Japan Otaru Museum

小樽市道央

By Kingo Tatsuno, architect of Tokyo Station, at the centre of what was called the Wall Street of the north; entry is free.

北海道 · Art & museums

Kitaichi Glass Hall 3

小樽市道央

A glassworks that made fishing floats and oil lamps; a hall lit by 167 of those lamps became the image of the whole town.

北海道 · Art & museums

Arte Piazza Bibai

美唄市道央

A sculptor turned a closed mine town's school and playground into a seven-hectare field of marble you may touch and sit on.

北海道 · Art & museums

Kida Kinjiro Museum of Art

岩内町道央

The painter behind a famous novel's protagonist; he fished for a living, lost his early work to fire, and kept painting.

北海道 · Art & museums

Arai Memorial Museum of Art

岩内町道央

Some three hundred Picasso prints on a hill above the Japan Sea - an unexpected centre of Western art in a small town.

北海道 · Art & museums

Ogawara Shu Memorial Art Museum

倶知安町道央

A painter who began in Surrealism, returned home, and spent the rest of his life on one mountain and its animals.

北海道 · Art & museums

National Ainu Museum

白老町道央

Japan's only national museum of an indigenous people, presenting Ainu pattern and carving as living practice rather than ethnography.

北海道 · Art & museums

Nibutani Ainu Culture Museum

平取町道央

Nibutani's wood carving and bark weaving are the only Ainu crafts designated traditional by the state - and the makers still live here.

北海道 · Art & museums

Tomakomai Art Museum

苫小牧市道央

Art and archaeology in one museum, with the paper and port industries that made the town treated as a third strand.

北海道 · Art & museums

Muroran Citizens' Art Museum

室蘭市道央

A museum built from citizens' donations in a steel town, and collecting the paintings its factories provoked.

北海道 · Art & museums

Ebetsu Ceramic Art Center

江別市道央

In a brick-making town: exhibitions of ceramics beside a workshop where visitors handle the clay themselves.

北海道 · Art & museums

Fukagawa Art Hall Toshukan

深川市道央

A small museum inside a commercial building by the station, built on two local painters and changing its shows often.

北海道 · Art & museums

Takikawa Art and Natural History Museum

滝川市道央

Art and natural history under one roof - Sorachi printmakers beside the fossil sea cow dug up in the city.

北海道 · Art & museums

Pierson Memorial Museum

北見市道東

北海道 · Art & museums

Former Honma Family Residence

増毛町道北

The shop and residence of a family enriched by herring, kept complete - draper, shipowner and household in one Important Cultural Property.