Tōyako · Japan

Volcano Science Museum

Kazan Kagaku-kan

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7/10

adventurous

A local would say...

Watch actual footage of eruptions that reshaped the landscape you can see through the museum windows.

Sitting at the edge of Lake Toya, this compact museum brings you face-to-face with the raw power of Usu-zan through gripping video footage of eruptions in action. You'll see before-and-after photos showing entirely new land masses forming, geological cross-sections that explain the caldera's birth, and exhibits on the cutting-edge detection science pioneered here. It's a fascinating primer before taking the ropeway up to the volcano itself, and a reminder that the placid lakeside scenery is just the calm between geological upheavals.