Museum Abashiri Prison

 Hey guys. It’s me again. I’m Taisei. Today, I’ll introduce Museum Abashiri Prison. It is an outdoor history museum that preserves and opens the old building of Abashiri Prison, which has been deeply involved with Abashiri City since the Meiji era. At that time ,the criminals were sent to the undeveloped land, Hokkaido, and they worked very hard under the mission of cultivating Hokkaido paying for their crimes. A lot of criminals were there like the image below.

But now, we can visit and experience a lot of things there.

For example, there is a menu that you can experience the various tasks performed by the prison criminals at the time.

In addition, you can see mannequins that imitate those days like below.

The image above is the single prison cell that criminals were most afraid of at the time.

Here is the leaflet of it.

Information

Address 1-1, Yobito, Abashiri-shi, Hokkaido 099-2421

Entrance :Open all year round 9:00~17:00 (Opening hours vary depending on the time of year.) Admission is up to 1 hour before closing time.

Entrance fee ordinary: 1,100 yen

                       High school and college student: 770 yen

                      Under 15years old: 550 yen

Parking area: for free

website

https://www.kangoku.jp/index.html