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Hokkaido Jingu
Founded by decree of Emperor Meiji as guardian of the frontier. Barely 150 years old, yet no shrine in Hokkaido draws more worshippers. It enshrines the three deities of land development.
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Hokkaido Jingu Tongu
A place of distant worship set up in the city centre for those unable to climb to the main shrine on Maruyama in winter.
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Hokkaido Daijingu
Its deity was invited from Ise. It shows how far faith spread during the settlement years.
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Sapporo Fushimi Inari Jinja
Vermilion torii line the foot of Mount Moiwa. The deity was invited from Fushimi.
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Sapporo Clock Tower
The drill hall of Sapporo Agricultural College. The clock has kept running since 1881.
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Sapporo Snow Festival
It started with snow sculptures made by junior and senior high school students. Two million people now come.
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Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art
The province's central art museum, known for holding the Ecole de Paris painter Pascin in depth, alongside Hokkaido artists and studio glass.
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Migishi Kotaro Museum of Art
A single-artist museum for Kotaro Migishi, born in Sapporo and dead at 31 - his whole restless change of manner fits in a few rooms.
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Sapporo Art Park Museum
Forty hectares of woodland holding both an indoor museum and 74 outdoor sculptures, half-buried in snow for part of the year.
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Hongo Shin Memorial Museum of Sculpture
On the site of the sculptor Shin Hongo's own studio, holding the models for the monuments that stand in streets across Japan.
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Moerenuma Park
Isamu Noguchi redesigned a landfill site as one continuous sculpture; it was his last work.
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Sapporo International Art Festival
A triennial whose first edition was directed by the composer Ryuichi Sakamoto, on the theme of snow and the city.
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Sapporo Odori 500m Underground Walkway Gallery
Five hundred metres of underground walkway between subway stations, used as a continuous gallery beside the commuting crowd.
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Hokkaido Museum
A red brick building known locally as the forest chalet, giving the fullest account in the province of Ainu history and colonisation.
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Historical Village of Hokkaido
Fifty-two buildings from the Meiji and early Showa eras moved here - nowhere else shows this hybrid frontier architecture together.
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Former Hokkaido Government Office
The red brick prefectural office of 1888: American neo-Baroque adapted to a northern climate, and an Important Cultural Property.
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Hokkaido University Museum
Housed in the university's 1929 science building, so the modernist architecture is as much the exhibit as the four million specimens.
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Sapporo Shiryokan
A former courthouse in soft stone; a restored courtroom sits beside rooms given over to citizens' exhibitions.