Historical Village Of Hokkaido
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open-air museum An open-air museum is a museum that exhibits collections of buildings and artifacts outdoors. It is also frequently known as a museum of buildings or a folk museum. Definition Open air is "the unconfined atmosphere ... outside buildings" ...
in
Sapporo is a Cities designated by government ordinance of Japan, designated city in Hokkaido, Japan. Located in the southwest of Hokkaido, it lies within the alluvial fan of the Toyohira River, a tributary of the Ishikari River. Sapporo is the capital ...
,
Hokkaidō is the second-largest island of Japan and comprises the largest and northernmost prefecture, making up its own region. The Tsugaru Strait separates Hokkaidō from Honshu; the two islands are connected by railway via the Seikan Tunnel. The ...
, Japan. It opened in the Nopporo Shinrin Kōen Prefectural Natural Park in 1983. It includes fifty-two historical structures from the "frontier days" of the
Meiji period The was an era of Japanese history that extended from October 23, 1868, to July 30, 1912. The Meiji era was the first half of the Empire of Japan, when the Japanese people moved from being an isolated feudal society at risk of colonizatio ...
to the
Shōwa period Shōwa most commonly refers to: * Hirohito (1901–1989), the 124th Emperor of Japan, known posthumously as Emperor Shōwa ** Shōwa era (昭和), the era of Hirohito from 1926 to 1989 * Showa Corporation, a Japanese suspension and shock manufactu ...
that have been relocated and reconstructed or recreated, divided into four zones: town (with thirty-one buildings), fishing village (four buildings), farming village (fourteen buildings), and mountain village (three buildings). The museum is notable for having a rare
narrow gauge A narrow-gauge railway (narrow-gauge railroad in the US) is a railway with a track gauge (distance between the rails) narrower than . Most narrow-gauge railways are between and . Since narrow-gauge railways are usually built with Minimum railw ...
horse-drawn tramway.


Access

* JR Hokkaido Bus (''Shin22'' ''Kaitakunomura'' line): 15 minutes from Shinsapporo Bus Terminal to Historical Village of Hokkaido (Hokkaido ''Kaitakunomura'') bus stop.


See also

* List of Cultural Properties of Japan - structures (Hokkaidō) *
List of Historic Sites of Japan (Hokkaidō) This list is of the Monuments of Japan, Historic Sites of Japan located within the Prefectures of Japan#Hokkaidō, Circuit of Hokkaidō. National Historic Sites As of 1 February 2024, fifty-five Sites have been Cultural Properties of Japan, desi ...
*
Meiji-mura is an open-air architectural museum/theme park in Inuyama, near Nagoya in Aichi prefecture, Japan. It was opened on March 18, 1965. The museum preserves historic buildings from Japan's Meiji (1867–1912), Taishō (1912–1926), and early ...
* Shikoku Mura * Hokkaido Museum


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1983 establishments in Japan Heritage streetcar systems History of Hokkaido Horse-drawn trams in operation Museums established in 1983 Museums in Sapporo Open-air museums in Japan {{Japan-museum-stub