Historical Village of Hokkaido | |
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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 / 43.048195°N 141.496995°E |
Opened | April 1983 |
Website | |
Official website |
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.