HokkaidoArchitectureSapporo
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 Clock Tower
Built as a drill hall for the agricultural college; its tower clock still runs on falling weights, among the oldest working mechanisms in Japan.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
AomoriArchitectureHirosaki
Maekawa Kunio Buildings in Hirosaki
Kunio Maekawa, central to Japanese modernism, left eight buildings in his mother's home town - his first and last work within one walk.
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Former Hirosaki City Library
A three-storey timber library with octagonal towers at both corners - a provincial master carpenter's reading of Western architecture.
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Aomori Bank Memorial Hall
A former bank, Western outside and finished in Tsugaru lacquer and plaster within - the mixture is the point.
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Hirosaki Ascension Church
An Anglican church whose brick spire stands out sharply among the town's timber Western buildings.
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Hirosaki Catholic Church
A timber Gothic church holding a 19th-century altar given to it by a church in Amsterdam.
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Fujita Memorial Garden
A businessman's villa using the drop of a cliff to hold two different gardens, with Mt Iwaki borrowed as the backdrop.
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Hirosaki Castle
The only surviving castle keep in Tohoku - and one that was jacked up and moved bodily so its stone base could be repaired.
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Nakamachi Komise Street
Wooden arcades built out over the street against snow, surviving as they were in the Edo period.
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Takahashi Family Residence
A rice merchant's house of 1763, its roof kept low throughout to shed the weight of snow.
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