Kōbunkan, Maritime and biographical museum in Kushiro, Japan.

The Kōbunkan is a brick reconstruction, built in 1993, of the former Kushiro Shimbun newspaper office completed in 1908 and demolished in 1965. Its second floor holds the Takuboku Reference Room, displaying materials on the poet Ishikawa Takuboku, who worked as a reporter for the paper in 1908; the ground floor houses a café and shop, and a bronze statue of Takuboku stands beside the entrance.

The building reproduces the brick headquarters of the former Kushiro Shimbun, completed in 1908 and demolished in 1965; the reconstruction opened in 1993 as a harbour rest house. The poet Ishikawa Takuboku worked as a reporter for that newspaper in 1908, which is why a Takuboku reference room now occupies the second floor.

The building is a 1993 reconstruction of the brick Kushiro Shimbunsha office where the poet Ishikawa Takuboku worked as a reporter in 1908. The second floor holds the Takuboku Reference Room, showing materials supplied by the newspaper, and a bronze statue of Takuboku stands beside the entrance. The museum regularly organises events such as tours of the 26 Takuboku poetry monuments in Kushiro.

The museum sits in central Kushiro and is easy to reach on foot from main areas of the city. Visitors typically need two to three hours to walk through the main exhibition spaces.

The building is a 1993 reconstruction of the brick Kushiro Shimbunsha office completed in 1908 and demolished in 1965. Ishikawa Takuboku worked there as a newspaper reporter in 1908, and the second floor holds a Takuboku reference room with materials supplied by the newspaper. A bronze statue of the poet stands beside the entrance.