Musée
Abashiri Prison Museum
An open-air museum of the actual Meiji-era prison buildings, some over 130 years old. The Abashiri arc runs through volumes 6 to 14.
The buildings of the original Abashiri Prison were relocated to a hillside site outside the town and preserved as a museum. The radial cell block, the bathhouse and the courthouse are the actual structures, and several are designated important cultural properties. The prison arc of Golden Kamuy takes place in them.
Pourquoi ça vaut le détour
You walk through the rooms the story is set in. It is also a serious museum about the convict labour that built Hokkaido's roads, which is the history the series is drawing on.
Quand y aller
Busiest in summer.
Bon à savoir
Allow two hours minimum — the site is large and outdoors. It shares a bus route with the Okhotsk Ryuhyo Museum and the Museum of Northern Peoples, and the last of those covers Ainu and northern cultures, which pairs directly with the series. The live-action film uses the prison as the prison, so the rooms you walk through are the ones on screen.
Golden Kamuy
The prison buildings from the Abashiri arc — and the location for the 2024 live-action film.