HokkaidoContemporary ArtSapporo
Moerenuma Park
Isamu Noguchi redesigned a landfill site as one continuous sculpture; it was his last work.
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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.
HokkaidoArchitectureSapporo
Former Hokkaido Government Office
The red brick prefectural office of 1888: American neo-Baroque adapted to a northern climate, and an Important Cultural Property.
HokkaidoArchitecture
HokkaidoArchitectureSapporo
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.
HokkaidoMuseumsSapporo
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.
HokkaidoArchitectureSapporo
Sapporo Shiryokan
A former courthouse in soft stone; a restored courtroom sits beside rooms given over to citizens' exhibitions.
HokkaidoArt & CraftsAsahikawa
Nakahara Teijiro Memorial Asahikawa Museum of Sculpture
The sculpture of Teijiro Nakahara, dead young, shown in a 1902 army officers' club that is itself an Important Cultural Property.
HokkaidoArchitectureHakodate
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.
HokkaidoArchitectureHakodate
Hakodate Orthodox Church
The birthplace of Japanese Orthodoxy: white walls, green domes and the icons inside, all designated together.
HokkaidoArt & CraftsOtaru
Otaru Art Base
Four historic banks and warehouses turned into one museum complex; the stained glass came from English churches.
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.
HokkaidoArt & CraftsEbetsu
Ebetsu Ceramic Art Center
In a brick-making town: exhibitions of ceramics beside a workshop where visitors handle the clay themselves.
HokkaidoArchitectureKitami
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.
HokkaidoArchitectureNoboribetsu
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.
HokkaidoArchitectureHakodate
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.
AomoriArt & CraftsAomori
Aomori Museum of Art
Its galleries imitate the walls of an excavation trench; it holds three of the four vast backdrops Chagall painted for the ballet Aleko.
AomoriArt & CraftsAomori
Aomori Contemporary Art Centre
A residency where artists come to make work, wrapped by a long concrete arc that Tadao Ando drew through the forest.
AomoriMuseumsAomori
Aomori Prefectural Museum
The prefecture's general museum, in a 1931 bank; closed since 2021 and awaiting the end of its refurbishment.
AomoriArt & CraftsHirosaki
Hirosaki Museum of Contemporary Art
A Meiji cider factory turned contemporary art museum, on the site of three Yoshitomo Nara exhibitions, converted so the building keeps its memory.
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.