HokkaidoArchitectureSapporo
Sapporo Clock Tower
The drill hall of Sapporo Agricultural College. The clock has kept running since 1881.
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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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Sapporo Shiryokan
A former courthouse in soft stone; a restored courtroom sits beside rooms given over to citizens' exhibitions.
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Former Hakodate Public Hall
A timber Western hall on the slope above the port; its original furniture and blue-and-yellow colour scheme show what the trade was worth.
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Hakodate Orthodox Church
The birthplace of Japanese Orthodoxy: white walls, green domes and the icons inside, all designated together.
HokkaidoArchitectureOtaru
Bank of Japan Otaru Museum
By Kingo Tatsuno, architect of Tokyo Station, at the centre of what was called the Wall Street of the north; entry is free.
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Pierson Memorial Museum
Designed by William Merrell Vories as a missionary couple's home, and the leading example of his work in Hokkaido.
Mashike
Former Honma Family Residence
The shop and residence of a family enriched by herring, kept complete - draper, shipowner and household in one Important Cultural Property.
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Noboribetsu Date Jidaimura
An Edo town rebuilt at full scale; the accuracy of the carpentry makes it a place to check period stage design on foot.
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Motomachi Catholic Church
A Gothic church whose altar was a gift from Pope Benedict XV, on a slope where Orthodox, Anglican and Catholic churches stand together.
Matsumae
Matsumae Han Yashiki
Hokkaido's only castle town rebuilt fourteen of its buildings to show the port as it was - the northern limit of Kyoto-derived culture.
Esashi
Former Nakamura Family Residence
A shipping agent's house built into a slope, with the hoist that lifted cargo straight from the water still in place.