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South of the Chūbetsu River, with the roadside station, Taisetsu Crystal Hall and the Sample Forest.[8][36]
Let’s walk around Kagura!歩いてみよう！
Comfy shoes on? A district is best on foot, at penguin pace.ペンギンのペースで！Open a sight’s page to find its stamp for your card.スタンプを探してね！History
Kagura Town joined Asahikawa on 1 March 1968. Its roadside station is just south of JR Asahikawa Station, about 5 minutes over the Crystal Bridge.[4][1][74][75]
Around the roadside station are Taisetsu Crystal Hall, home of the city museum, Taisetsu Arena, the Foreign Tree Species Sample Forest and the Miura Ayako Literature Museum.[8]
Sights
道の駅あさひかわ
A roadside station just south of JR Asahikawa Station, with Asahikawa ramen, local goods and a bakery.[74][8]
Photo: Him56 · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 2008 · Wikimedia Commons
旭川市博物館
Ainu culture and local history in Taisetsu Crystal Hall, near the roadside station.[36][71][8]
Photo: Asahikawa City
外国樹種見本林
Hokkaido’s oldest plantation of foreign trees, and the setting of Miura Ayako’s novel Hyōten.[15]
Photo: Asahikawa City
三浦綾子記念文学館
A literature museum founded and run by citizens, in the forest where Hyōten is set.[46][4][15]
Photo: Asahikawa City
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