SPOT
Fugoppe Cave
In a cave where many rock wall carvings, which ancient people of the Post-Jomon Period Late Stage (approximately 1600 to 1300 years ago) dug, remain, and earthenware, bone and antler tools, hearth traces, and others also remain, it is a globally also valuable nationally designated historic site.
Cave sites that leave carved drawings on rock walls, as for them, together with Otaru City's Temiya Cave, currently within Japan, there are no things that are compared.
There are over 800 carved drawings, and from things like people who disguised themselves, there are boats, fish, sea beasts, and things like four-legged animals.
Many human figures disguised with horns or wings exist, and this, as for it, is inferred to be a thing that represents a shaman, and it is thought that it might have been a place for some kind of religious ritual.
The cave, as for it, from the analysis of earthenware and bone and antler tools discovered from sedimentary soil layers, the fact that it is a site belonging to the Post-Jomon Period of approximately 2000 to 1500 years ago is known, and scholars and researchers from various countries are also visiting.
Business Hours
2025 year April 12th day (Saturday) ~ December 14th day (Sunday) 9:00~16:30
※ From May until November's Saturday and Sunday, public holiday, volunteer explainers are explaining the facility's overview. Facility guidance, in principle, because of reservation system, in advance to the museum telephone contact.
regular closing day
Every Monday, the day after public holidays, mid-December to early April
Fee
大人 300円 / 小中高生 100円
※4月から12月の第2土曜日・第2日曜日は、「来たことない町民ゼロ計画」の実施に伴い、余市町に住民登録のある方の入場料は無料
Adult 300 yen / Elementary, junior high, high school students 100 yen
* From April to December's second Saturday ・ second Sunday, (as for) accompanying the implementation of "Zero Residents Who Have Never Visited Plan", (as for) the admission fee of persons having resident registration in Yoichi Town is free.
parking lot
Available (Free of charge)
Location
Yoichi Town Sakae Town 87
Access
Bus "Fugoppe Cave Front" after getting off, by foot 1 minute
*The information listed is current as of May 2025.
*The information posted may be subject to change, so please check the official website for details.
