This is a free-admission facility where you can learn about nature around the Tokachi River, disaster prevention, and more. On the 1st floor, there is a river diorama with actual flowing water. Press a button and the flow increases, levees break, and flooding occurs. The 2nd floor has panels describing the history of flood disasters, tools once used for river works, and exhibits on water use, flood control, and local nature. There also seem to be a library, a quiz corner, and a 3D theater, but we couldn't use them, perhaps because of the COVID pandemic. The access road had not been cleared of snow, and our car nearly got stuck.

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The location is poor, and the exhibits feel a bit sparse, maybe? Well, it's free, so I guess it can't be helped. The Tokachi River-related facility in Obihiro has also remained closed since spring. Personally, the materials about disasters such as earthquakes and floods that have occurred along the Tokachi River were the most useful to me.

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There are exhibits on the history of the Tokachi River, dioramas, and more, with plenty worth seeing. Please note that it only opens on weekdays and closes for lunch from 12 to 13.

A good place to learn about Tokachi's rivers. Dioramas explain how river levels rise, and the structure of Tokachi Dam is also recreated in a diorama.

It was very good. There are lots of topographic maps and terrain models, and especially a diagram showing how the Tokachi region changed from fifty million years ago to the present, so I learned a lot of history.