Pak Degam

Sakhalin Island


This big and bustling Korean barbecue joint serves marinated meats in sets to be cooked at your table, though there's a full pictorial English menu for nonbarbecue dishes if you're not feeling like playing chef. It's in an attractively furnished basement with lots of wood and comfortable booths, but also loud and invasive Russian pop.


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1. Sakhalin Regional Museum

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The pagoda-roofed Sakhalin Regional Museum has a strong exhibit (sadly in Russian only) exploring the Japanese/Soviet overlap of the city’s history,…

3. Gagarin Park

0.41 MILES

This large park is full of rides and amusements, but there are some very pleasant parts for strolling away from the crowds, and even an attractive…

4. Chekhov Statue

0.61 MILES

This attractive statue of Anton Chekhov, whose visit to Sakhalin in the late 19th century put the little-known penal colony on the map, shows the great…

5. Art Museum

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This museum has a modest permanent collection of pre-Soviet Russian oil paintings and Korean and Japanese textiles upstairs, and changing exhibits…

6. Lenin Statue

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This looming statue of the revolutionary leader still stands in pride of place in front of the train station.

7. Cathedral of the Nativity

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This extraordinary new addition to Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk's otherwise ho-hum architectural ensemble is a staggeringly impressive golden-domed cathedral, which…