Lake Akan Ainu Kotan

The Ainu ethnic group is outside the Japanese Dahe ethnic group, another Japanese native ethnic group, so far has not been truly recognized as a Japanese family, very bumpy! Now the number of ethnic groups is very small, and it has reached the edge of the extinction of the ethnic group!

Lake Akan is the largest settlement of the Aboriginal Ainu people, who fish and hunt for a living, advocate pantheism, owls, white bears, foxes, etc. are totems of their faith. Ainu Village has concentrated on displaying Aboriginal culture, and a small shop next to the street sells a wide range of souvenirs and exquisite wood carvings. There are giant eagle carvings flying at the entrance of the village

Ainu village is a small Hokkaido indigenous village, we also watched the original ecological performance, Figure 1 is the indigenous use of harmonica instruments, the sound is a bit like the electric sound of cotton pop :)

It was good to be able to eat the dishes eaten by Ainu 々 and touch the culture.

There are many souvenir shops on both sides of the road. It's exciting just to look at it.

Ainu Village is very close to Hot Spring Street, just opposite the Heya Hotel where you live. The whole village is less than 100 meters away, and the houses are mostly wooden structures and very distinctive. Many wood carving shops are interested in having a good taste.

The itinerary is very fairy and very cold. Look at the red-crowned cranes in and around Lake Akan and then watch the swan. The wind on the buckling road where the swan is located is so strong that it almost has to hold a swan to keep warm. Hahaha