Inside Hokkaido’s Historical Village: 52 Buildings Near Sapporo
aStep inside the Historical Village of Hokkaido—an open-air museum near Sapporo where 52 historic buildings recreate life from the Meiji era through early Shōwa.
We follow the village route through old shops, homes, school corridors, a working printing press, a martial-arts hall, forestry camps, farm buildings and Hokkaido’s once-enormous herring industry. There are also horse-drawn trams, suspiciously active wax figures and a late attempt to master traditional wooden stilts.
The Historical Village of Hokkaido, known in Japanese as Hokkaidō Kaitaku no Mura (北海道開拓の村), preserves buildings relocated or reconstructed from communities across Hokkaido. The museum is divided into town, fishing, farming and mountain-village districts.
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LOCATION
Historical Village of Hokkaido
Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan
Official website: https://www.kaitaku.or.jp/en/
CHAPTERS
00:00 Hokkaido’s living history
00:16 Entering the village
00:34 Otaru Newspaper and its printing press
01:33 Hokkai Middle School
01:56 Keiteki student dormitory
02:29 The 1929 martial-arts hall
03:40 Into the mountain district
04:11 Forestry camp and railway
05:10 Farms and early settler homes
06:16 When the wax figures move
06:45 Traditional straw clothing
06:56 Agricultural machinery
08:53 The fishing district
09:11 Akiyama herring-fishing house
09:50 The historic classroom
10:01 Returning to the town shops
10:30 One final challenge: wooden stilts
Filmed in 4K.
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