Guide Visitor Information

Visitors with Disabilities

The services listed below are provided to enable all visitors to enjoy their time at Upopoy.

Wheelchairs are available from the Entrance Center and the Rental Items desk. To request one, please speak to a member of staff.

The museum has an elevator designed for use by people in wheelchairs and people with visual impairments.

Free transportation around the park’s main facilities (wheelchair accessible). Board the bus from any of the bus stops.

Available from the Cultural Exchange Hall. Enjoy the way each sound translates to vibrations.

Voice-to-text apps can be used in all facilities. Sign language interpreting (using a tablet) is available at the information desk in the Entrance Center. (This service is only in Japanese.)

*These services cannot be used during workshops.

Service dogs such as guide dogs and hearing dogs are welcome inside the park and facilities.

The main facilities in the park have multipurpose restrooms with facilities for ostomates.

Please contact a member of staff if you fall ill during your visit. First-aid stations are available in the museum and at the Rental Items desk.

Larger parking spaces are available for visitors with disabilities, older visitors and visitors who are pregnant.

AEDs are installed in each facility.

National Ainu Museum:
Stairless access is available. The facility is equipped with accessibility aids such as braille, an audio guidance system, and flashing lights and audio guidance at the emergency exits. Multipurpose restrooms are equipped with a multipurpose seat.
※Please note that descriptive captions and panels in the museum are not printed in braille.

National Ainu Park:
There is a braille information board on the park map. Tactile paving blocks leading from the pedestrian entrance to the Lakeview Plaza entrance and restrooms have been installed for visitors with visual impairments. The main facilities of the park are equipped with multipurpose restrooms that have a multipurpose seat.