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Sapporo Station is the primary railway station in Sapporo. It is served by the Hakodate Main Line and other lines of Hokkaido Railway Company (JR Hokkaido), and is also connected to the Subway Sapporo Station. It is also the starting point and terminus for most limited express services operated by JR Hokkaido. It also has the tallest building (JR Tower) in Hokkaido. Sapporo station is developing into a commercial center as large as Ōdōri Park and Susukino.

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The Hokkaido Museum, aka Mori no Charenga, opened in Sapporo in 2015. It introduces the nature, history and culture of Hokkaido. The museum investigates and researches the relationship between the natural environment and people, the culture of the Ainu people and their way of living, and the lives of immigrants from Honshu. It also collects and preserves materials that represent a precious treasure of the people of Hokkaido, and conducts exhibitions, educational activities and events.

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Open daily 09:00 - 16:30, closed Mondays

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The Historical Village of Hokkaido is an open-air museum of relocated and restored buildings that represent the history of Hokkaido from 1868 to the 1920s (from the Meiji period to the beginning of the Showa period). It was opened in 1983 to preserve important cultural assets of Hokkaido for future generations, and provide experiences of past history and culture in the Meiji and Taisho periods.
There are 52 buildings in all, arranged in four groups: the Town, Fishing Village, Farm Village, and Mountain Village. Each building contains displays that illustrate lifestyles, cultures and industries of the people during the Meiji and Taisho periods.

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Open daily 09:00 - 16:30, closed Mondays

The Centennial Memorial Tower was built in 1970 as one part of Hokkaido’s Centennial Projects, as an expression of gratitude for the hard work of the people who built the Hokkaido of today and as a symbol of limitless future development. The tower is 100 m/328 ft tall to represent 100 years. An observation room that overlooks the city of Sapporo and Ishikari Plain was built on its 8th floor (23.5 m/77 ft up). Quadratic curves that stretch toward the sky and cross at a point at an infinite height symbolize future development. Moreover, on a planar level it is modeled on a hexagon, which expresses a snow crystal. (Note: For safety reasons, the Hokkaido Centennial Memorial Tower and its environs are currently off-limits.)

Parking available at MapCode: 9 509 136*34

Tower entrance is currently closed.

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The Nopporo Forest Park was opened as part of Hokkaido’s Centennial Project in 1968 to protect and enhance the precious natural forest and to give residents a recreational area for getting closer to nature. It has been designated a Prefectural Nature Park. The majority of its 2,053 hectars/5,073 acres are national forest, parts of which have been designated as Showa no Mori recreational use forest and a wildlife sanctuary. Walking paths crisscrossing the park let visitors enjoy nature observation, therapeutic forest walks, and in winter, cross-country skiing.
In the natural forest inside Nopporo Forest Park, there is a comparatively large amount of forest remaining that is situated in a transition zone between temperate forest and subarctic forest. It is a mixed conifer and broad-leaf forest. Its broad-leaf forest contains Mongolian oak, Japanese Judas tree and Japanese linden, and its subarctic conifer forest consists mostly of Sakhalin fir. Small and medium-sized mammals inhabit the park, including foxes, raccoon dogs, varying hares, Hokkaido squirrels, Pteromys volans orii (a subspecies of Siberian flying squirrel) and small Japanese field mice.
Moreover, approximately 140 kinds of birds can be seen, including the black woodpecker (a protected species); owls; the blue-and-white flycatcher; the narcissus flycatcher; the long-tailed tit; the Japanese tit; and the great spotted woodpecker. Rare insects including Damaster gehinii and the Japanese predacious diving beetle, as well as insects that are quite popular with children including Terpnosia nigricosta and the Miyama Stag Beetle, can also be seen there.

Parking at the entrance - MapCode: 139 181 616*40

Open daily 09:00 - 16:30, closed Mondays

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The Sapporo Beer Museum is Japan’s only museum dedicated to beer, which explores the long history of Sapporo Beer, passed down from the days of the 1876 Kaitakushi business. The Kaitakushi-kan building and its red bricks are a symbol of the next door Sapporo Beer Garden. It was built in 1890 as a sugar factory and then used as malting plant until 1963, then in 1966, it became the Sapporo Beer Garden.

Parking located to the north of the museum - MapCode: 9 554 378*75

Open daily 11:00 - 18:00, closed Mondays