Important Cultural Property of Hokkaido

Ten Showa-period distillery buildings in Hokkaido. Their own dates differ from one building to the next, and each one of them is approximate here now.

The former Abashiri Prison in Hokkaido, rebuilt in 1912 by its inmates, keeps the only complete timber radial cell block in Japan, now in the Abashiri Prison Museum.

The Futamigaoka branch of Abashiri Prison, a prison farm opened in 1896 for self-sufficiency, keeps five buildings of 1896 to 1930, moved to the museum in 1999.

This 1877 wooden office shows how the Hokkaido Development Commission's builders copied American pattern books, visible in its ridge ornament and porch gable.

On Hokkaido's Sea of Japan coast, the Sasanami house is the island's oldest surviving folk dwelling, raised in the early 1800s by a family of herring net owners.

This 1926 former court of appeals is the largest surviving public building of Sapporo soft stone. An Important Cultural Property, it now houses a free city museum.

The former Hanada family bansho on Hokkaido's coast is a herring fishery from around 1905. The largest surviving bansho in Hokkaido, it once lodged some 200 crews.

The Former Shimoyoichi Unjoya in Yoichi, Hokkaido, built in 1853, is the only survivor of the trading posts the Matsumae domain set up across the island.

The main hall of Shogyoji in Akkeshi, Hokkaido, built in 1799 at Itoigawa in Niigata and moved here in 1910, keeps rich carvings and colour rare in Hokkaido temples.

The main hall of Jokokuji in Kaminokuni, Hokkaido, a Jodo temple hall of 1758 below the Katsuyama fort, is one of the few Buddhist halls in Hokkaido this old.

The Tachikawa Family House Shop in Hakodate, a brick shop of 1900 with a timber truss roof, looks like a Japanese storehouse and mixes Japanese and Western styles.

The former Otaru branch of Nippon Yusen Kaisha, a stone building completed in 1906, keeps its original fittings and hosted the 1906 talks on the Sakhalin border.

Completed in 1916 and designated in 1983, this brick church in Motomachi, Hakodate carries six cupolas and a bell tower ranked among Japan's 100 Soundscapes.

An Edo tea room attributed to Kobori Enshu, carried from Omi to Sapporo in the 1920s. Its eight windows and red pine central pillar survive in Nakajima Park.

A turret gate of 1853 and the only building left from Fukuyama Castle, the last in the Japanese style. Free to view year-round inside Matsumae Park, Hokkaido.

This 1922 timber kindergarten in Obihiro, Hokkaido, sets an octagonal domed playroom at the centre of a square plan. An Important Cultural Property since 2017.

A mid-Edo four-legged gate with a hand-split shingle roof at a Soto Zen temple in Matsumae, among Hokkaido's oldest temple buildings. Designated in 1993.

Built by the Kaitakushi in 1880 and opened as Emperor Meiji's lodging, this white clapboard hotel in Sapporo's Nakajima Park keeps its ultramarine trim.

Nine Meiji farm buildings on the Hokkaido University campus, built on Clark's plan for large-scale stock farming. Free entry, three barns open inside each summer.

A thatched settler farmhouse in Date City left by the Watari Date migration. Two rooms and an earth floor, heavily framed, with a plan echoed by later militia huts.

Hokkaido’s registered properties across designations, with featured heritage and travel notes.

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