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Mikasa City Museum: General Information

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Contents
 
Introduction
Visitor Information
  Addmissions
  Location and Access
  Opening Time
  Closed Days
  Free Wi-Fi
 
Exhibitions
  Fossil Exhibitions
  Human Arts Exhibitions



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 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.

Huge landmark statues of the Elasmosaur and Mosasaur.
The Huge landmark statues of Elasmosaur and Mosasaur

Visitor Information

 Admissions 

  Individuals Groups
(20 and more)
Adult
(over 16)
Youth
(6-15)
Adult
(over 16)
Youth
(6-15)
Only this Museum ¥ 450 ¥ 150 ¥ 360 ¥ 120
Combination tickets with
the Mikasa Gallery of Culture and Art
the Mikasa Railway Memorial Museum
(saled: April 16-October 15)
¥ 750 ¥ 350 ¥ 650 ¥ 300
Combination tickets with
the Mikasa Gallery of Culture and Art
(saled: October 16-March 31)
¥ 500 ¥ 200 ¥ 400 ¥ 180
Children (under 6) are free. 
 

Location and Access

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

Opening time

daily 9:00 am to 5:00 pm.
 

Closed days

 

Free Wi-Fi

 You can use free Wi-Fi with Japan Connected-free Wi-Fi. Please set your devices before visiting.
 
 

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

お問い合わせ先

Mikasa City Museum
E-mail: hakubutsukan@city.mikasa.hokkaido.jp
Tel: +81-1267-6-7545