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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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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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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.
HokkaidoArt & CraftsAsahikawa
Hokkaido Asahikawa Museum of Art
Collecting around 'form in wood' - a policy that follows directly from Asahikawa's furniture industry.
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.
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Asahikawa City Museum
Built around Kamikawa Ainu material - dugout canoes and ritual objects presented as working tools rather than curiosities.
Higashikawa
Higashikawa International Photo Festival
A town of 8,000 declared itself the photography town and has run this festival, and its international prize, for forty years.
HokkaidoArt & CraftsBiei
Takushinkan
A converted school in the middle of the hills, showing the landscape photographs Shinzo Maeda took of those same hills.
HokkaidoMuseumsKenbuchi
Kenbuchi Picture Book Village
A village of 3,000 rebuilt its identity around picture books, and has run an original-illustration prize ever since.
HokkaidoArt & CraftsObihiro
Hokkaido Obihiro Museum of Art
Built around printmaking, in a wood in Midorigaoka park, with regular shows of artists from the Tokachi plain.
HokkaidoArt & CraftsShikaoi
Kanda Nissho Memorial Museum of Art
A farmer who painted while working the land and died at 32; his unfinished horse, brushed onto plywood, is the centrepiece.
HokkaidoContemporary ArtNakasatsunai
Rokka no Mori
The wildflower paintings known from a confectioner's wrapping paper, shown in huts scattered through a Tokachi wood - the garden is the display.
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Aihara Kyuichiro Museum
In a converted bathhouse at the heart of a small museum village, for a painter who kept painting Hokkaido's nature.
HokkaidoArt & CraftsKushiro
Hokkaido Kushiro Museum of Art
Gallery and theatre in one building, collecting eastern Hokkaido artists and work taking the Kushiro marshes as subject.
HokkaidoArt & CraftsKushiro
Kushiro City Museum of Art
Inside a lifelong learning centre, quietly showing and collecting the work of local artists.
HokkaidoArt & CraftsKushiro
Akanko Ainu Kotan
A settlement of some thirty Ainu woodcarving workshops, where the carving is done in the open and bought directly from the maker.
HokkaidoArt & CraftsAbashiri
Abashiri City Museum of Art
One of the older municipal museums in the province, built around Kaichi Igushi's paintings of the Okhotsk fisheries.
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