The Ainu Museum in Shiraoi, Hokkaido, is trying to lure more foreign tourists. It offers daily live cultural performances and has displays of artifacts relating to the indigenous ethnic group, and is part of an ongoing drive to preserve Ainu culture.
If you're interested in Ainu culture and history, then you should visit Shiraoi Ainu Museum which is considered one of Japan's best museums about Ainu.
The Ainu Museum is an outdoor museum located on the shore of Lake Poroto in Shiraoi that exhibits a restoration of an Ainu village settlement. Visitors can gain a glimpse of the unique culture and spiritual world of the Ainu by encountering rituals associated with nature and the gods, traditional thatched-roof houses and tools used in daily life.
Poroto kotan means “big lake village” in the Ainu language. The Ainu Museum (Porotokotan) dates back to the 1970s, when an Ainu settlement was restored in the area where the museum now stands and archives were established by the town of Shiraoi.
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The Ainu Museum in Shiraoi, Hokkaido, is trying to lure more foreign tourists. It offers daily live cultural performances and has displays of artifacts relating to the indigenous ethnic group, and is part of an ongoing drive to preserve Ainu culture.
If you're interested in Ainu culture and history, then you should visit Shiraoi Ainu Museum which is considered one of Japan's best museums about Ainu.
The Ainu Museum is an outdoor museum located on the shore of Lake Poroto in Shiraoi that exhibits a restoration of an Ainu village settlement. Visitors can gain a glimpse of the unique culture and spiritual world of the Ainu by encountering rituals associated with nature and the gods, traditional thatched-roof houses and tools used in daily life.
Poroto kotan means “big lake village” in the Ainu language. The Ainu Museum (Porotokotan) dates back to the 1970s, when an Ainu settlement was restored in the area where the museum now stands and archives were established by the town of Shiraoi.
Shiraoi Ainu Musuem and Village, Shiraoi-cho: See 153 reviews, articles, and 265 photos of Shiraoi Ainu Musuem and Village, ranked No.1 on TripAdvisor among 12 attractions in Shiraoi-cho.
