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Hokkaido Digital Museum

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Keiyu Nishimura Museum of Art

This museum opened on November 1, 1999. It houses and exhibits works by Keiyu Nishimura, including his familiar, soft-colored paintings. Keiyu was a Western-style painter from Kyowa Town who led a prolific career in Paris after World War II. The museum also offers various programs to enjoy art. The museum’s unique exterior, which features lots of glass and curves, and the views of the Niseko Mountains and the bucolic surroundings are also not to be missed.

Kan Yasuda Sculpture Museum – Arte Piazza Bibai

At this art park, everyone living in our modern age can spend as much time as they wish free from worry about the outside world.

e space turns memories of the coal mining city’s vicissitudes and of people’s thoughts about them into the energy of the locale, having existed and continuing to exist with an air of serenity. The City of Bibai and Kan Yasuda, the famed sculptor from Bibai, will keep working to make the museum an irreplaceable space.

Hakodate Jomon Culture Center

This facility features the history and culture of the Jomon period in areas centered on the Minamikayabe area of Hakodate City. In addition to introducing people’s lifeways, which were based on hunting, fishing, and gathering, the center displays lacquerware, asphalt, jade, and other items used as barter, as well as the only National Treasure in Hokkaido: a hollow clay figurine.

Samani Folk Museum

Opened in 1967, this museum exhibits materials concerning Tojuin Temple, which was founded as one of “the Three Government Temples of Ezo,” as well as archaeological materials, Ainu folk materials, local articles of everyday use, and the like.

Teine Memorial Museum

This museum opened in 1969 in commemoration of the merger between Teine Town and Sapporo City. It displays a large number of materials of historical significance, including those primarily illustrating the days of land reclamation in Teine, those describing local history to the present, and archaeological finds unearthed from the Teine Site, as well as ancient documents and everyday tools. The lecture hall and Japanese-style room inside the museum are open to local residents for community activities and as a place of recreation and relaxation.

Tokoro Forest Park of Archaeological Sites

This forest park in part of the Tokoro Site, a national historic site of Japan, is dotted with exhibition and other public facilities. Among them, the Tokoro Archaeological Museum is a core exhibition facility with a chronological display of artifacts unearthed at the Tokoro Site and neighboring archaeological sites. Outdoors, scenery of an ancient settlement has been reproduced, with pit dwellings reconstructed among pit dwelling depressions still recognizable above ground.

Shiretoko Museum

Shiretoko, where Shari Town is located, is blessed with unspoiled natural beauty for which it was designated as a World Natural Heritage site. Since ancient times, people here have lived in harmony with nature. The Shiretoko Museum features the nature and history of Shiretoko and the lives of local residents. Exhibits also include those about Shari’s sister town, Taketomi, in Okinawa Prefecture and Shari’s friendship municipality, Hirosaki City, in Aomori Prefecture.

Historical Village of Hokkaido

The Historical Village of Hokkaido is an open-air museum showcasing structures built across Hokkaido from the Meiji to early Showa eras (from the mid-19th to mid-20th centuries)—structures that were relocated for restoration or were reconstructed on the 54.2-hectare compound here.
The village opened in April 1983 to offer a glimpse of what life was like in Hokkaido’s pioneering days and to preserve for posterity buildings that embody local cultural history.
The village itself constitutes a large exhibit. In the summer (from mid-April to November 30), the only horse-drawn trolley in Japan runs, and a horse-drawn sled is available for a ride in the winter (on weekends and national holidays with snow on the ground between December and March, and on weekdays during the Sapporo Snow Festival).
The facility gives a sense of the wisdom and labor of those who engaged in land reclamation in Hokkaido, and each and every structure will transport visitors back to the pioneering days.

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