Horse-drawn tram
Down the town street.
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An open-air museum opened in 1983 in Nopporo Forest Park, east of Sapporo, with 52 historic buildings from the era when Hokkaido was settled and developed, from the Meiji to the Shōwa period, moved here from around the island and rebuilt, or faithfully recreated. The buildings are spread over four zones: a town of 31 buildings, with shops, offices, a railway station and Western-style houses, a fishing village, a farming village and a mountain village. Many can be entered to see their furniture and tools as they were. Its best-known feature is a horse-drawn tram on a rare narrow-gauge line, running along the town street between the old buildings and recalling Hokkaido's young towns of more than a century ago. Tickets are 1,000 yen, and it opens 9:00-17:00 from May to September and to 16:30 the rest of the year, closing on Mondays from October to April, per visitor guides. A bus from Shin-Sapporo Station takes about 15 minutes.
Down the town street.
From the Meiji era.
Old coastal life.
Nopporo Forest Park, east Sapporo
Real buildings from Hokkaido's settlement era in four zones, and a horse-drawn tram running along the old town street.