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北海道 · Art & museums

Hongo Shin Memorial Museum of Sculpture

札幌市道央

On the site of the sculptor Shin Hongo's own studio, holding the models for the monuments that stand in streets across Japan.

北海道 · Art & museums

Moerenuma Park

札幌市道央

Isamu Noguchi redesigned a landfill site as one continuous sculpture; it was his last work.

北海道 · Art & museums

Sapporo International Art Festival

札幌市道央

A triennial whose first edition was directed by the composer Ryuichi Sakamoto, on the theme of snow and the city.

北海道 · Art & museums

Sapporo Odori 500m Underground Walkway Gallery

札幌市道央

Five hundred metres of underground walkway between subway stations, used as a continuous gallery beside the commuting crowd.

北海道 · Art & museums

Hokkaido Museum

札幌市道央

A red brick building known locally as the forest chalet, giving the fullest account in the province of Ainu history and colonisation.

北海道 · Art & museums

Historical Village of Hokkaido

札幌市道央

Fifty-two buildings from the Meiji and early Showa eras moved here - nowhere else shows this hybrid frontier architecture together.

北海道 · Art & museums

Former Hokkaido Government Office

札幌市道央

The red brick prefectural office of 1888: American neo-Baroque adapted to a northern climate, and an Important Cultural Property.

北海道 · Art & museums

Hoheikan

札幌市道央

A Western-style hotel built by the colonisation office, its white walls trimmed in ultramarine - a colour scheme with few parallels in Meiji Japan.

北海道 · Art & museums

Sapporo Clock Tower

札幌市道央

Built as a drill hall for the agricultural college; its tower clock still runs on falling weights, among the oldest working mechanisms in Japan.

北海道 · Art & museums

Hokkaido University Museum

札幌市道央

Housed in the university's 1929 science building, so the modernist architecture is as much the exhibit as the four million specimens.

北海道 · Art & museums

Sapporo Shiryokan

札幌市道央

A former courthouse in soft stone; a restored courtroom sits beside rooms given over to citizens' exhibitions.

北海道 · Art & museums

Hokkaido Asahikawa Museum of Art

旭川市道北

Collecting around 'form in wood' - a policy that follows directly from Asahikawa's furniture industry.

北海道 · Art & museums

Nakahara Teijiro Memorial Asahikawa Museum of Sculpture

旭川市道北

The sculpture of Teijiro Nakahara, dead young, shown in a 1902 army officers' club that is itself an Important Cultural Property.

北海道 · Art & museums

Asahikawa City Museum

旭川市道北

Built around Kamikawa Ainu material - dugout canoes and ritual objects presented as working tools rather than curiosities.

北海道 · Art & museums

Higashikawa International Photo Festival

東川町道北

A town of 8,000 declared itself the photography town and has run this festival, and its international prize, for forty years.

北海道 · Art & museums

Takushinkan

美瑛町道央

A converted school in the middle of the hills, showing the landscape photographs Shinzo Maeda took of those same hills.

北海道 · Art & museums

Kenbuchi Picture Book Village

剣淵町道北

A village of 3,000 rebuilt its identity around picture books, and has run an original-illustration prize ever since.

北海道 · Art & museums

Hokkaido Obihiro Museum of Art

帯広市道東

Built around printmaking, in a wood in Midorigaoka park, with regular shows of artists from the Tokachi plain.

北海道 · Art & museums

Kanda Nissho Memorial Museum of Art

鹿追町道東

A farmer who painted while working the land and died at 32; his unfinished horse, brushed onto plywood, is the centrepiece.

北海道 · Art & museums

Rokka no Mori

中札内村道東

The wildflower paintings known from a confectioner's wrapping paper, shown in huts scattered through a Tokachi wood - the garden is the display.

北海道 · Art & museums

Aihara Kyuichiro Museum

中札内村道東

In a converted bathhouse at the heart of a small museum village, for a painter who worked only on Hokkaido's winter mountains and seas.

北海道 · Art & museums

Hokkaido Kushiro Museum of Art

釧路市道東

Gallery and theatre in one building, collecting eastern Hokkaido artists and work taking the Kushiro marshes as subject.

北海道 · Art & museums

Kushiro City Museum of Art

釧路市道東

Inside a lifelong learning centre, quietly showing and collecting the work of local artists.

北海道 · Art & museums

Akanko Ainu Kotan

釧路市道東

A settlement of some thirty Ainu woodcarving workshops, where the carving is done in the open and bought directly from the maker.