The collection of the Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art is made up of some 4 300 pieces (150 are exhibited in rotation) and divided into three categories: works by Hokkaido artists from the Meiji period onwards, modern and contemporary Japanese artists, ..

This open-air museum seeking to revisit the Meiji and Taisho era has some 60 meticulously reconstructed buildings divided into four sectors (town, farm, fishing village and mountain village). Visitors can gain an insight into what life was like in th..

The huge Historical Museum of Hokkaido is organised chronologically, and gives an overview of the island's morpho-geographical beginnings 2 million years ago, before moving onto its colonisation and most recent economic developments. For example, you..

Designed by the sculptor Noguchi Isamu (1904-1988), but only completed after his death, this 189ha park is almost a sculpture in its own right. It was conceived as part of a vast project to surround the urban area of Sapporo with a green belt. This g..

The large island of Hokkaido is joined to the north of Honshu by the Tsugaru Strait. While some of its natural landscape is given over to agriculture, it also encompasses forest and, in the centre, the high mountains which enabled the island's capita..