From the late Meiji period to the Showa 40s, when rice paddies were prosperous. What is absolutely indispensable when talking about the history of Makubetsu Town are the rice paddies of the Tobetsu district. Mr. Benzo Yoda, the ancestor of Tokachi development, is said to be "a successful person with a string of failures," but the only thing that succeeded was the rice paddies of Tobetsu Farm. If you look at the aerial photographs from that time, you can see that rice paddies were spread throughout the entire Tobetsu district. Furthermore, rice paddies were also developed in the Nishisarubetsu district during the same period, meaning that Makubetsu Town had played a significant role in Japan's staple food from the early Taisho period through the post-war period. Valuable private houses and tools that sustained the lives of the pioneers... In the Furusato-kan, the "Kimari Goya" (Standard Hut), where tenant farmers lived at that time (the actual item has been relocated inside the museum), is exhibited. The name of this hut is said to have been called that because "more than ten houses of a 'fixed size' of 6 tsubo were built."
　Hoes that dug up fields during the pioneering era, saws and axes that cut down densely growing trees, butter churns (tools for churning milk) that mark the history of butter manufacturing, etc. — all of the materials and daily necessities exhibited in the Furusato-kan are valuable assets that tell history.