Our last excursion in Sapporo is to the Hokkaido Historic Village. We waited for the heat to break a little before going to this attraction and it is a good thing because there was not much shade. Older buildings from all over Hokkaido have been brought here and placed along the main street to simulate a town. There is a police box, general store, photographer's studio, fire station. boat house, newspaper, sake brewery, government office, surveyor's house, an inn, a junior high, a dyeing shop, a post office, a doctors office, the Urakawa Church, a noodle shop, a herring storage house and a Shinto temple. We visited most all of the places that were open. Some were being renovated and were not open to the public and some were further than we wanted to go. We rode the horse drawn trolly, had some soup in the restaurant, dyed paper with indigo, pressed a design onto a postcard at the newspaper building and sat for a portrait at the photographers. We stayed for three hours and left when the 3:00 bus arrived. The busses come on the hour and on the half hour, we were tired and did not want to wait another half hour. The heat combined with walking without our shoes wore us down a bit. Many of the buildings required that shoes be removed. The ride back was still going to take an hour so we hopped on the bus. All in all t was a busy day.
Dog or butt?
Art for sale at the train station
Too hot to wait an hour so we took a taxi
A lavender wielding owl
The bus stop, we will need this later
The entrance is a grand building, it is based on the old Sapporo train station from 1908
Happy crow
Hokkaido Development building from 1869
Some model buildings
Fancy staircase
Very blocky furniture
A buggy from 1906
A 1908 rickshaw
A classic roll top desk
The policeman reporting for duty
These leaves were very large
I am a talking robot...not really it is just a phone
The furnishings were very sparse
Hand carved pitcher
Surveyors tools
The map of the Ishikari River
A fine wooden chest
The loo
A water heater
A very elaborate system for hanging the kettle
Old photos
Fantastic carved wooden panel
An all in one shrine
Movie projectors
A nice office
What secrets were kept in this giant safe?
This was the Matsuhashi residence
Looking down the street
The police box
We found a much more lively policeman later
The box is quite small
Tiny snowshoes
Foot warmers, this shows how cold it gets up north
The post office
Shave anyone?
There was audio playing in the background, probably typical barbershop banter
Love these old styles
The general store
Lots of stuff
These must have been some good milk candy
A sleigh manufacturer
The track that t he horse drawn trolly rides on
A church from 1894
Low ceilings! Watch out
A brass bell at the temple
Some storehouses
This was named the sea pond
Fishing boats were stored in the herring shed
Big nets
Big boats too
Cool fabric salmon
Big eyes
Sandals
Nets and big glass floats
Dried fish or wood made to look like dried fish
Pretty flowers
The firehouse or "fire tools hovel"
The pump wagon
Old uniform
Note the large rocks on the roof
Shinto shrine
Built in 1897
Here comes the trolly
Changing the name of the station to where we are heading to
Weeeee!
The driver
It is a small space
Our reflection
School girls excited to see the horse
Rickey hats a snack
So do we!
Wild mushroom soup with fern heads and reeds
The dyeing shop
Indigo
Chopping soundtrack playing in the background
Dip in the dye and then in the water
Pat dry and we have a souvenir
The kettle is on
Dandy dandilions
Next stop is the Inn
Hang your snow shoes up at the door
Big kitchen
Nice robes to stay warm
A hot water heater
Beer and sake
Lots of dishes
The Sake brewery
The tools of the trade
Large kettles
Various buckets
A mini shrine on the wall
A great cabinet
The police giving directions
A very unique roof on the photographers house
Porcelain fixtures
The photographer's studio
Big cameras
Looking at the back of the camera where the photographic plate would go
What the camera was aimed at
the attendant took our picure
She kept on taking them
Pretty good pictures
Here you can see how the roof is made of frosted glass panels
They can be blocked or not to adjust the illumination in the room
Leslie seen in the back of the camera
The window into the Doctors office
Scales, mortar and pestles and other tools of the trade
The exam room
The operating room
Our last stop
The newspaper building with big printing presses
Little printing presses
I got to operate this one
I made a post card
Lots of designs
Characters to print
Typeface
