Road Station Ryuhyo-kaido Abashiri

Excellent open-air museum.

Well organized site. Sign boards in English provide a lot of information. Interesting to see how prisons evolved and changed over the years. Well worth the visit.

Nice stop along the pier to purchase local products.

The rest stop along the pier is a nice stop to find a wide selection of locally produced items from Abashiri. The staff are helpful and some speak very good English, making it easy to understand what...

Nice restrooms and information center

This michi-no-eki is clean, really informative regarding the Abashiri area, and has plenty of area souvenirs. It has lockers available for those who are boarding the Aurora ice-floe cruises that leav...

Helpful staff

Tourist centre located inside the michi-no-eki. Staff was very helpful in answering my questions and assisted me enrol for a dolphin watching cruise the next day. The wharf was next to michi-no-eki....

The Aurora sightseeing boat is 4000 yen as the Monbetsu Garinko

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Drift ice is not berthed in Monbetsu and Abashiri due to the unseasonable warmth in February. There is a reception desk for the drift ice sightseeing icebreaker Aurora in the roadside station. The Monbetsu Garinko proceeds while crushing ice with a drill, and this one seems to climb on the ice like an Antarctic observation ship and crush it while proceeding.