A Quick Tour of Interesting Abashiri Prison -- Japan's Alcatraz
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Abashiri Prison Museum is by far one of the most interesting sights in Hokkaido. It was constructed in the 1890s to hold over 1,000 dangerous criminals; think of it as Japan's Alcatraz.
Very few prisoners ever escaped or even tried to escape because of Hokkaido's isolation and brutal winters. Where could they go with no food or clothing even though conditions inside the prison were not the best?
A modern prison still functions in Abashiri a few miles away but these are the original buildings.
What Japanese Prison Food is Like ★ ONLY in JAPAN
Japan has some amazing prison food, which should be no surprise. Inmates are served healthy, nutritious meals of grilled fish, salads, rice and soup - which are actually healthier than most school lunches around the world! Would you like to try what prisoners eat? There's a prison in Hokkaido that serves authentic meals to the public and that is where I went -- Abashiri.
Abashiri is in the very north of Hokkaido and is famous for its prison. Their Bangaichi Shokudo Diner is the only restaurant that serves authentic prison food in Japan, the ingredients the same as the penitentiary nearby. The meals will probably surprise you!
Prison Food Menu:
SET A: Pacific Saury, 2 salads, barley rice, miso soup (780 yen / $7.00)
SET B: Atka Mackerel, 2 salads, barley rice, miso soup (820 yen / $7.50)
It's called the secret meal because Japanese Prisons are very restrictive with access to the outside world. However, Abashiri is dfferent and they've opened up prison life to the public and it's worth a visit.
We also get a tour of today's prison cells in Japan. They have tatami mats, futons, TV, toilet and window. There are private cells and cells for 6 or more inmates. Japanese inmates typically eat their meals in their cells.
The Japanese prison life is regimented, the schedule the same everyday. Wake up at 6:40am and lights out at 9:00pm.
Meal time is three times a day for 20 minutes.
Where is Abashiri, Japan?
It's in Hokkaido's north, a 90 plane ride from Tokyo's Haneda Airport.
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Abashiri PRISON MUSEUM.
Welcome to Abashiri prison!
Well, perhaps welcome isn't ideal, but you get the gist.
We had an interesting time learning about Hokkaido's convict history.
Abashiri prison ran from 1890 until 1984.
They offer guided tours, a virtual movie theatre experience, sampling prison cuisine and much more.
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The Abashiri Prison and Abashiri
This is a story that took place about 115 years ago. The Edo era ended and the Meiji era began. Around that time, Men cropped their topknots and wore their hair bobbed. Less and less people wore swords. This story took place in this desolate fishing village at the edge of Japan Island 20 years after the Meiji Restoration. In winter, the ocean near the village was frozen. So the life was hard for the pioneers. Ten years passed, and the number of people who remain in the village in winter finally started to increase. That was what Abashiri was like at that time.
One day, a government official with a fine beard came to the village. The official walked around the village and then climbed a mountain. And the found a spot he was looking for. On the north here was the Sea of Okhotsk, and Lake Abashiri was on the south. Lake Notori lied on the Westland a big river drifted at the foot of the mountain.
“Oh, great. This is it! It is hard to escape from here. And it is easy for us to keep an eye on them.”
Abashiri Prison (1965) by Teruo Ishii
Abashiri Prison is located in the coldest place in Japan. Two men, handcuffed together have escaped from the prison, one a yakuza, the other a petty criminal, and although they hate each other they must work together if they are to evade capture in this harshest of climates.
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Spent the day at the Abashiri Orison Museum filming the ground, restaurant and cells! Now it’s time for me to return to society in the city. How do you do that? By bus. Where am I? Abashiri Prison Museum
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아바시리의 또 하나의 명소 감옥박물관을 찾아가는 길이다. 실제 아바시리 형무소로 사용됐던 건물을 그대로 옮겨 당시 죄수들의 가혹한 생활을 재현해 놓은 곳이다. 아바시리 형무소는 다섯 개의 옥사가 있었다고 한다. 샌프란시스코만의 앨커트래즈 형무소처럼 무시무시한 악명을 자랑했다고 한다. 당시의 참혹한 모습이 떠올라 섬뜩함을 느꼈다. 이렇게 평화로운 도시의 명소중의 하나가 바로 감옥박물관이라니 참으로도 아이러니였다. 이곳엔 아주 특별한 죄수가 있었다. 세 번의 탈옥을 시도하다 붙잡힌 이 사람의 이야기는 영화와 다큐멘터리로 만들어졌다고 한다. 바로 여기가 그가 탈출을 계획하며 수많은 밤을 새웠을 방이다. 탈주자가 그토록 갈망했던 자유를 생각하며, 나에게 주어진 자유를 생각해 봤다.
[English: Google Translator]
Another way is to visit the sights of the Abashiri Prison Museum. Stay move the building which was used as a real Abashiri Prison is a place where recreates the harsh life of the prisoners. Abashiri prison has had a five-oxa. The aelkeo that boasts a reputation as a fearsome prison in San Francisco Bay's Treasure. This tragic figure emerges at the time felt seomtteukham. So peaceful disgrace one of the city's attractions is the prison museum was also very ironic indeed. It was a very special prisoner yen. It is trying to break the story of three people caught is was made into a movie and documentaries. Right here is he planning to escape, and the number of new bangyida are away at night. The idea of freedom fugitive who had so longed, saw Consider the freedom given to me.
[Japanese: Google Translator]
網走のもう一つの名所刑務所博物館を訪ねて行く道である。実際の網走刑務所として使用された建物をそのまま移し、当時の囚人たちの過酷な生活を再現したところである。網走刑務所は5つのオキサがあったという。サンフランシスコ湾のエルコトラズ刑務所のような恐ろしい悪名を誇るたという。当時の悲惨な姿が浮かんで背筋が寒くなるのを感じた。このように平和な街の観光スポットの一つがまさに刑務所博物館って確かにも皮肉であった。ここには非常に特別な囚人があった。三回脱獄を試みたが、捕まったこの人の物語は、映画やドキュメンタリーで作られたという。ここが彼が脱出を計画して多くの夜を新しい焼いた部屋である。ブレイクアウトが切望していた自由を考えながら、私に与えられた自由を考えてみた。
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The Incredible Japanese Prison Break
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[The Incredible Japanese Prison Break]
Aomori, Japan. 1936. Prisoner Yoshie Shiratori had had enough.
He was forced to confess to a murder he did not commit, falsely imprisoned in Aomori Prison, beaten and tortured every night by prison guards, and, now worse, prosecutors were seeking the death penalty. In his mind, it was time to go; but Aomori Prison wasn’t the easiest to escape.
Regardless, Yoshie Shiratori had nothing to lose, and so at 5:30 am he made his move. He knew there would be a 15 minute gap in the patrol time as he had studied the guards’ routine for months; and when the coast was clear, he pulled out a metal wire (which he had smuggled in from the bathhouse) and started to pick the lock. (This was originally the metal support ring that was wrapped around the bathing buckets inmates used to wash themselves).
His hands were stiff from the wintry cold, but after a few minutes of picking, he had success, and his cell door swung open. But he wasn’t out of the woods yet, because there were more locked doors ahead. He knew he only had a few minutes left before the guards would return, and so he wasted no time attempting to pick his way through the remaining security doors.
Now fortunately for him, he was able to make it out of the facility, but the bad news was that he was only halfway to freedom. You see, he was still well within the search perimeter, which meant at any moment the alarm could go off and he’d still be caught.
At 5:45am the guards returned, peering into his cell; and this is what they saw - Shiratori sound asleep in his futon bed. ...
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[Japanese Prison Break: FOLLOW-UP]
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Hokkaido Winter Market & Street Food Experience ★ ONLY in JAPAN
Hokkaido in the winter is cold and if you go to the very north coast along the Sea of Okhotsk, you'll find Abashiri (網走市) 260km / 165mi north of Sapporo.
In February, it's the high season for tourists because this is where you go to see a lot of snow. ice drifts and eat a lot of amazing seafood.
During the city's annual Drift Ice Festival, you'll also find the amazing Okhotsk Yatai Mura Food Market (オホーツク屋台村) where local resident come out to celebrate the cold long nights together with good food from the Sea of Okhotsk and copious amounts of beer and atsukan (hot Japanese sake). This is an excellent experience of a lively night market in Hokkaido and worth a stop and bite.
What do we eat at the market in this episode?
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☆ Okonomiyaki
It's hard not to get a little tipsy here, but one thing is for sure, you'll make a ton of friends and eat a lot of food.
There are also other things to do in Abashiri like visit the famous Prison which I covered in a previous episode.
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