Historical Village of Hokkaido

Historical Village of Hokkaido (北海道開拓の村, Hokkaidō Kaitaku no Mura) is an open-air museum in Sapporo, Hokkaidō, 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 to the Shōwa period 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).^[1][2][3] The museum is notable for having a rare 2 ft 6 in (762 mm) narrow gauge^[4] horse-drawn tramway.

Historical Village of Hokkaido
北海道開拓の村
General information
Address	50-1 Konopporo, Atsubetsu-chō, Atsubetsu-ku
Town or city	Sapporo, Hokkaidō
Country	Japan
Coordinates	43°02′54″N 141°29′49″E
Opened	April 1983
Website
Official website

Access

The museum's horse-drawn tramway

• 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)
• Meiji-mura
• Shikoku Mura
• Hokkaido Museum

References

1. "Historical Village of Hokkaido". Hokkaido Museum. Retrieved 9 October 2016.
2. "Historical Village of Hokkaido". Sapporo City. Archived from the original on 10 October 2016. Retrieved 9 October 2016.
3. 開拓の村 マップ [Map] (in Japanese). Historical Village of Hokkaido. Archived from the original on 16 April 2021. Retrieved 9 October 2016.
4. "Trams of the World 2017" (PDF). Blickpunkt Straßenbahn. 24 January 2017. Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 February 2017. Retrieved 16 February 2017.

External links

• (in English) Historical Village of Hokkaido Archived 15 May 2021 at the Wayback Machine
• (in Japanese) Historical Village of Hokkaido
• (in Japanese) Guide to the 52 structures Archived 16 April 2021 at the Wayback Machine