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Unit 731 Museum

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Unit 731 Museum
4.5
#7 of 228 things to do in Harbin
Speciality Museums
8:30 AM - 4:00 PM
Monday
8:30 AM - 4:00 PM
Tuesday
8:30 AM - 4:00 PM
Wednesday
8:30 AM - 4:00 PM
Thursday
8:30 AM - 4:00 PM
Friday
8:30 AM - 4:00 PM
Saturday
8:30 AM - 4:00 PM
Sunday
8:30 AM - 4:00 PM
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Clive W
Orpington1,799 contributions
A moving experience
Sep 2023 • Friends
I had heard about this unit for decades and was thrilled to have the opportunity to visit it. I had visited the Nanjing Massacre museum and found that to be a very moving experience. It was important to me to visit unit 731 to understand more fully the impact it had and still has on the Chinese.

Notices are in English and Chinese. There is also an audio guide (not free).

The museum gave a detailed history including some details on the large variety of experiments conducted. It was particularly poignant visiting the ruins that were left. The museum itself is in a new purpose-built building.

I saw only 3 other foreign people during my visit. I very much was glad I visited this museum. It significantly increased my understanding and I recommend it highly.
Written 27 September 2023
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MrCox29
Tieling, China9 contributions
Must see
Aug 2023 • Solo
A place that must been seen!

It’s Free and they even supply a translator device for free with a 500元 deposit (at information in the museum)
Written 25 August 2023
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baidjenkee
Jakarta, Indonesia13 contributions
Interesting museum detailing a horrific time in history
Jan 2023 • Couples
Very interesting museum. Entrance was free. There were detailed bilingual English-Chinese explanations about the artefacts, stories from people interviewed and records. Never knew this dark part of history. We spent 2 hours there.
Written 15 January 2023
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Michael
8 contributions
Sad to Know
Jan 2021
It's the terrible and sad past of human beings, if you have enough time in Harbin, you can have a look around, there are English writing, and easy to understand.
Written 4 January 2021
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Karmiel, Israel451 contributions
educational and very important
Jan 2020
very important especially for European and American people who forgot that the Chinese people suffered also in WW2.
Written 31 January 2020
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Limlim C
Bangkok, Thailand62 contributions
auschwitz of the east
Jan 2020 • Friends
spent 3 hours at the site. well worth the time to comprehend this lesser known but horrific atrocity in the second world war. take the metro the xinjiang road station (southernmost stop)
Written 9 January 2020
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LG_Kay
Singapore, Singapore7,488 contributions
Sad history
Dec 2019
Before visiting this museum, I had no idea what unit 731 is. After the visit, I am reminded of the atrocities and cruelty to mankind during a war. Such is the reality in our sad history. This museum has many exhibits, detailing how the Japanese conducted biological and chemical warfare research, using the Chinese prisoners as human experiments. A sobering experience, not for the faint hearted.
Written 2 January 2020
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Wayne
4 contributions
Sad Place
Dec 2019
It is one of the more sad place in my trip, it was"cruel war against human nature itself".the human cruetly, you can read from this museum and site. It is good to know these here.
Written 13 December 2019
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Edith B
45 contributions
Super interesting
Apr 2019
The modern building is very impressive and the exhibition extraordinary It shows the inimaginable horrors Japanese Invaders inflicted on the Chinese population during the 2nd World War
Written 25 November 2019
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Chan Roberts
Copan Ruinas, Honduras716 contributions
Must visit!
May 2019
This is one of the things in Harbin that visitors really need to see. Even if you don't go inside the exhibition hall (it was closed the Monday I went), you should see the buildings out back, the ruins of where the Japanese did their sick, perverse experiments both on animals and on humans. Go on a day other than Monday if you want to see the evidence gathered to show Japan's war crimes in what was then Manchuria. I was more interested in seeing the ruins.
Written 17 August 2019
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