Visited while touring. It's a museum about the damage from the Mt. Tokachi volcano and the town mayor at the time. It seems the mayor's house was relocated here, and it must have been quite an impressive house for its time. And you can see this for free too, Kamifurano is so generous! It's hard to imagine the mountains you can see from the garden erupting...

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When I visited in spring, it was closed, so I came again. I remembered that Ayako Miura wrote her novel "Deiryu Chitai" by interviewing many townspeople in Kamifurano, so I'd wanted to visit at least once🆗. According to the materials, this building is the house of Teijiro Yoshida, the village mayor at the time who worked hard on the recovery from the mudflow caused by Mt. Tokachi's eruption in Taisho 15, dismantled and restored✌️. Apparently it's rare for a building that suffered mudflow damage in the Taisho era to still exist. It says it was built in 1997 (Heisei 9) to commemorate 100 years since settlement began in Meiji 30. The exterior is, naturally, a single-story wooden house✌️. Outside, there's driftwood from the mudflow found at a construction site, and a literary monument for author Ayako Miura's novel "Deiryu Chitai"✌️. Inside, there are explanations of the mudflow damage, Mayor Yoshida's personal belongings, and lots of other valuable documents and exhibits.

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Originally this was a trip to see flowers, but I suddenly thought I'd learn a bit about the history of this area first and visited. However, I saw a notice out front saying that in June it was only scheduled to open on Saturdays and Sundays, so I gave up and was about to leave with just photos of the exterior, when a person who was mowing the grass nearby kindly opened it specially for me. In Taisho 13, the eruption of Mt. Tokachi unleashed a mudflow that caused a terrible disaster with 144 victims, and the village mayor's house, which miraculously survived, was relocated here. They also kindly let me see inside the house, and seeing the items that evoked daily life back then was very educational. The large log lying there was pulled from the mudflow at that time, and the scorch marks felt very vivid. Next to it stood a monument to Ayako Miura, the Asahikawa-born author famous for "Hyoten," who wrote the story of one family from that time. Thinking that such painful history and hard work connect to today's scenery is deeply moving. If you're ever nearby, please stop by. I'm sure the flowers you see afterward will move you with their beauty.

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Kamifurano Pioneer Memorial Museum☆ It's not much of a tourist spot, so it's not noisy but quiet, and you can take your time looking around Still, the lavender along the road really stood out and was blooming beautifully☆ I tried taking super close-up shots of the bugs.

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I got to learn about Deiryu Chitai (the mudflow zone)

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