Facilities information
General guidance
Shibuya Station of the Taisho era when Odate-shi-born Chuken Hachiko waited on for an owner as for the sightseeing in Odate-shi interchange facilities "Akita Dog Visitor Center" was built as a model.
A statue of Hachi-ko which stares straight at JR Odate Station recalls me to those days.
In the hall, there are the Akita Inu exhibition room which glass goes over the Akita Inu museum which I can study happily and the pretty Akita Inu about a characteristic and a history of the Akita Inu and can see, the souvenir corner which, in addition, Akita Inu goods and a specialty of Odate can buy.
Opening time
9:00-17:00
Akita Inu exhibition room
9:30-16:45 (there is the break of the dog)
Absent: On Monday (in the case of a holiday, Monday stops on weekdays, the following day)
Closed day
December 31, January 1
Entering a building charges
Free of charge
Notice of facilities
Figure in the hall
The hall
The beautiful spiral staircase which feels the feelings of the craftsman up to space and the details of the opening-like colonnade.
In the hall, a photograph of Shibuya Station at the time is displayed for the second generation.
Akita Inu exhibition room
[rate] Free of charge
[time] 9:30-16:45
[holiday] Month (in the case of a holiday, I take a rest on weekdays, the following day)
※The visit of the Akita Inu exceeds glass
※The contact is not possible
Souvenir corner
I have local brew as Akita Inu goods and a local souvenir including the sewing much.
Odate-shi tourist information center, souvenir ☎0186-57-8120
Akita Inu museum
The origin and a characteristic of the Akita Inu, display about the Akita Inu including the story with celebrities are varied! Please enjoy the photo exhibition (favorite Akita Inu) of the Akita Inu which the Akita Inu photo spot is quite popular and raised from the whole country.
Tourist information center
There is the Odate-shi tourist information center in Akita Dog Visitor Center.
Including a tourist attraction in the city, I inform you about the sightseeing of the Odate area including staying, hot spring facilities.
The rent-a-bicycle goes, too and prepares the tourist brochure of various places throughout the city.
Including a tourist attraction in the city, I inform you about the sightseeing of the Odate area including staying, hot spring facilities.
The rent-a-bicycle goes, too and prepares the tourist brochure of various places throughout the city.
Aogaeru
[time] 9:15-16:45
[period] The early April and late November
※I may cancel the visit in the vehicle at the time of the bad weather.
※I hibernate in the winter season.
Railroad park
[place] It is about 100m on the east side from the Akita Dog Visitor Center building
The place where Akita Dog Visitor Center is built now is a ruin of Kosaka railroad Odate Station. I just leave the rail which performed freight and the passenger transportation such as the ores which were ever mined in Kosakakouzan where the amount of mining production was number one in Japan at the time and can know the history of the prosperity from a showpiece.
Row a handle; a truck
I row a handle using the wiring of the old Kosaka railroad and operate a truck (300 meters in total length) for a limited time.
[period] From April 26, 2025 to the beginning of November
[time] 10:00-16:00
[rate] One once 200 yen (non-school children for free)
[ride] To four people
Barrier-free
There are a priority parking lot, a multifunctional restroom, the rental of wheelchair.
The nursing room
In the nursing room of the private room, I am fully equipped with a chair for a washstand, a diaper switchboard, the nursing.
Parking lot
Around Odate Station parking lot
Time 9:00-17:00 (overtime locking)
Rate for free
The accommodation number: About 100 (a large car: five)
- Parking without permission, illegally parked vehicles increase at our parking lot.
- An act such as leaving parking, car out of the business hours is prohibition.
- When the vehicle concerned is discovered, I will report it to the police.
Please use the following parking lot at the time of the JR Odate Station use.
Odate Station parking lot for free
Osakaya parking lot daily/500 yen (☎0186-43-3727)
Hanaoka parking lot daily/500 yen (☎0186-42-0035)
I do not take responsibility in the Akita Dog Visitor Center about troubles such as an accident, the theft in the parking lot at all.
Entrance with the pet dog
Except the hall (Akita Inu museum), you can enter it with a pet dog.
※The assistance dog can use all places.
Rent-a-bicycle
[business hours] 9:00-16:30
[business period] From April 1 to November around the end
[charge] 500 yen/e-bike 1,000 yen a day a day
[manager] Odate-shi tourist association (the Akita Dog Visitor Center) 0186-57-8120
※There is the case of the change by a climate.
Approach to the global environment
The Akita Dog Visitor Center introduces air-conditioning facilities with the quality of wood pellet fuel. It is the facilities which are carbon neutral by the quality of wood biomass utilization (renewable energy in consideration for the global environment).
