Kushiro City Museum

Kushiro City Museum is a city museum in Kushiro displaying about 4,100 objects that document the natural environment and regional history. The exhibitions use dioramas, videos, and archaeological items to show how the area developed over time.

The museum began in 1936 as a folk museum housed in a water board building and relocated several times over the decades. It settled into its current building at Shunkodai in 1983.

The museum displays objects tied to Ainu traditions and early settlement layers that shaped the region across different eras. Visitors can walk through exhibits showing everyday items and crafts that reveal how people lived here over time.

The building is located in the Shunkodai area and is easy to reach on foot or by public transport. Visitors should plan to spend around two hours to comfortably view the exhibitions.

The museum holds a jaw bone from an extinct tapir species found near Kushiro that scientists named after the local area. This fossil is one of the region's rare paleontological finds and stands out among the natural history collection.

Location: Kushiro

Inception: July 14, 1936

Architects: Kikō Mozuna

Address: 北海道釧路市春湖台1-7

Website: https://city.kushiro.lg.jp/museum

GPS coordinates: 42.97419,144.40356

Latest update: December 12, 2025 09:01