Ezo Culture and Archaeology Museum

Observing Ainu culture. There are many cultural properties that indicate the customs. The Senju district in Makubetsu town used to be called Cirotto village. Cirotto or Cirirokuto in the Ainu language means a marsh where birds sit. It is said that when the Ainu people settled on Cirotto village in 1749, most of them came from the Kitami area. The late Mr. Kikutaro Yoshida, an Ainu leader of Cirotto Kotan, founded the Ezo Culture and Archaeology Museum and at this museum important cultural properties left behind by Ainu ancestors are preserved.