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Sights around Asahikawa旭川の見どころ
23 places to see, grouped by district. Pick a kind to narrow the list.
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Asahibashi Bridge
旭橋
The steel arch over the Ishikari is the symbol of a city with more than 750 bridges.[1][15]
Photo: Asahikawa City
Tokiwa Park & Hokkaido Asahikawa Museum of Art
常磐公園・北海道立旭川美術館
The city’s first park, with tree-lined avenues, Chidorigaike pond and an art museum.[15]
Photo: Asahikawa City
Heiwa-dōri Kaimono Kōen
平和通買物公園
Japan’s first permanent pedestrian shopping street, opened in 1972.[2]
Photo: Asahikawa City
Kitasaito Garden
あさひかわ北彩都ガーデン
A garden right beside JR Asahikawa Station, opened in 2015.[1][41]
Photo: Asahikawa City
Asahikawa Ramen Village
あさひかわラーメン村
Eight ramen counters under one roof in Nagayama, since 1996.[25]
Photo: Asahikawa City
Otokoyama Sake Brewing Museum
男山 酒造り資料舘
A free sake museum, with spring water you can take home.[27]
Photo: K. Takeda · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 2007 · Wikimedia Commons
Asahikawa Design Center
旭川デザインセンター
About 1,200 pieces of Asahikawa furniture and craft, with a museum, gallery and workshop.[30]
Asahiyama Zoo
旭山動物園
Japan’s northernmost zoo, where animals swim, climb and hunt the way they would in the wild.[2][6]
Asahikawa Heison Memorial Museum
旭川兵村記念館
The story of the farmer-soldiers who settled Higashi-Asahikawa, in the grounds of Asahikawa Shrine.[4][73][63]
Michi-no-Eki Asahikawa (roadside station)
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
Asahikawa City Museum
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
Foreign Tree Species Sample Forest
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
Miura Ayako Literature Museum
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
Kamuikotan
神居古潭
About 15 km west of the center, the Ishikari runs through a gorge lined with strangely shaped dark-green rocks.[40][15]
Photo: Asahikawa City
Tosshōzan
突哨山
A hill on the city’s northern edge with one of Japan’s largest katakuri colonies.[4]
Photo: HaradaHideo · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 2012 · Wikimedia Commons
Around town8 sights
More around Asahikawa そのほかの見どころ
More sights across the city and just beyond it.
Arashiyama Lookout & Hoppō Yasōen
嵐山展望台・北邦野草園
A lookout over the city, the Ishikari and the Daisetsuzan, with a garden of over 600 species of northern wild plants below.[15]
Photo: Asahikawa City
Ainu Culture Forest Denshō no Kotan
アイヌ文化の森 伝承のコタン
Three rebuilt chise houses in Arashiyama Park, free to visit.[39]
Kawamura Kaneto Ainu Memorial Museum
川村カ子トアイヌ記念館
Kept going privately since 1916, it calls itself Japan’s oldest Ainu museum.[37]
Nakahara Teijirō Memorial Asahikawa Sculpture Museum
中原悌二郎記念旭川市彫刻美術館
A sculpture museum in a former army officers’ club that is an Important Cultural Property.[15][1]
Photo: Asahikawa City
Takasago Meiji Sakagura
髙砂酒造 明治酒蔵
Takasago’s 1909 Meiji Sakagura, now its shop, with free tastings.[29]
Otokoyama Nature Park
男山自然公園
One of Hokkaido’s largest wild katakuri fields, open only from mid-April to early May.[19]
Photo: Asahikawa City
Ueno Farm & Shūjitsu Hill
上野ファーム・就実の丘
A garden on the Hokkaido Garden Route, and a hill that looks out over the Daisetsuzan.[4]
Photo: HOKKAIDO LOVE! (Hokkaido Tourism Organization)
