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Unlike other museums, where artefacts are kept behind glass, exhibitions here consist of replicas, handmade by members of Sapporo's Ainu community using their own family heirlooms as models. As a result, you can touch everything on display, feeling, for example, the linen-like softness of textiles made from tree bark. The strangely shaped centre is in Kogane-yu, 3km east of J¨­zankei.

The Sapporo¨CJ¨­zankei bus stops at Kogane-yu (?650, 50 minutes); the museum is a short walk up from the bus stop.

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