🔒 Abashiri Prison

Abashiri Prison is a prison in Abashiri, Hokkaido that opened in 1890. The northernmost prison in Japan, it is located near the Abashiri River and east of Mount Tento. It holds inmates with sentences of less than ten years. Older parts of the prison were relocated to the base of Mount Tento in 1983, where they operate as the country's only prison museum. It is a prison feared by Japanese criminals due to its grueling labor and freezing environment.