I am Canadian Sculptor Royden Mills and Linda and I visited the Nakasatsunai Museum and Sculpture park with our friends of Yuji and Miwa Matsui and Shinichi and Mikie Takahashi In mid July 2014. The experience was nothing short of inspiring. I felt great envy that Hokkaido has such a place to go and contemplate the meaning of life and the potential for a human to express themselves with. I felt that the Province of Alberta surely must one day gain such a fantastic place for its citizens to enjoy. The many smaller but perfectly suited indoor exhibition venues along the sculpture park pathways was brilliant! Each afforded the visitor the chance to see rotating exhibition by various people in a venue where both nature and outdoor sculpture could be seen and considered. The contextual support that is lent by the forest around the sculptures is fantastic. Each sculpture seemed to be supported and increased in expressive potential by the way nature breathed into the venue and the relationship to site that each sculpture and installation enjoyed!
eric-burdon
Visiting Obihiro, you should visit there. Unfortunately in winter all museums close. It takes 60 minutes by bus from Obihiro bus terminal. We can get a combination bus ticket with museum entrance fee in the bus terminal, but it seems to be impossible to get in the bus. Each museum specialises artist or thema and located in the 145,000 square metre woods. I recommend Kyu-ichiro Aihara's museum, which displays impressive pictures about mountains in Hokkaido. The restaurant netxt to the museum offers also delicious local cuisine and lovely sweets.
Skakagrall
Wrong name? Is this Nakasatsunai Bijutsumura ('Art Village'). Well worth visiting. A series of small art exhibition buildings with a couple of good restaurants.