Mikasa City Museum: General Information

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Mikasa City is surrounded by beautiful nature and rich geological materials including coals and fossils. The Mikasa City Museum was established in July, 1979 to preserve and exhibit the nature, culture, and industry of the city.

The museum building

The museum has five exhibition rooms with fossils from Hokkaido, plants and animals of Mikasa, and the history of the coal mines and prisons that had been in Mikasa. The museum also has an open-air exhibition promenade, stretching over 1.2 kilometers, where you can see geological strata and the heritages of the coal mines.
In the numerous displays, visitors are introduced to over a thousand specimens.
The huge statues of an Elasmosaur and a Mosasaur protruding from the roof of the museum serve as a symbol for the museum. Mikasa City Museum is known as “The Museum of ammonites”, and welcomes many internal and international visitors every year.

The Huge landmark statues of Elasmosaur and Mosasaur

Visitor Information

 Admissions 

Location and Access

Adress: 1-212-1, Nishikicho, Ikushumbetsu, Mikasa City, Hokkaido, 068-2111, Japan
 
 

Opening time

Closed days

• Every Monday (If Manday is a national holiday, the museum is open Monday and closed the following Tuesday)
• December 30th to January 4th

Free Wi-Fi

Exhibitions

Fossil Exhibitions

The largest collection of ammonite fossils in Japan

Fossils of an extinct large marine reptile “Yezo-Mikasa-Ryu” and other creatures of the Cretaceous

Human Arts Exhibitions

Coal mining industry and human culture

Materials of the Sorachi Shujikan (prison)

Animals, plants, and forestry gallery

Open-Air Exhibition Promenade