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Sapporo Clock Tower (札幌時計台, Sapporo Tokeidai) is a wooden structure and tourist attraction located at North 1 West 2, Chūō-ku, Sapporo, the largest city on the island of Hokkaidō, Japan. As of 2021, this tower is the oldest clock tower in Japan.
Sapporo-ku administered surrounding Sapporo-gun until 1899, when the new district system was announced. After that year, Sapporo-ku was away from the control of Sapporo-gun. [ 8 ] The "ku" (district) enforced from 1899 was an autonomy which was a little bigger than towns, and smaller than cities.
The facilities of the former Hokkaidō Government Office (Japanese: 北海道庁旧本庁舎) in Sapporo, Japan, include a conference room, a museum shop, a tourist information office, and a few historical exhibition rooms and libraries. Visitors can enter the building for free.
Aramaki was the owner of the Sapporo Tokeidai gallery (札幌時計台ギャラリー). [12] He is known as a collector of the paintings of the artists in Hokkaidō. Many paintings in the collection were donated to the Sapporo Arts Forest Museum (札幌芸術の森美術館). [13]
Hokkaido is the northernmost prefecture of Japan and the largest by area. As of March 2024, Sapporo has 2 completed buildings above 150 meters (492 feet) and 22 completed buildings above 100 meters (328 feet). The first high-rise to be built in Sapporo that reached 100 meters tall was the Sapporo Center Building in 1987.
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Nakajima Park (中島公園, Nakajima Kōen) is a city park in Chūō-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan. The park has a lake, two streams, a museum, a concert hall, an observatory, a historical building housing a tea shop, and several lawns and forests. At the south end, there are two shrines.
Wako was founded in 1881 by Kintarō Hattori as a watch and jewelry shop called K. Hattori (now Seiko Group Corporation) in Ginza. In 1947, the retail division split off as Wako Co., Ltd. From 1894 to 1921, the Hattori Clock Tower stood on the site that Wako occupies today. In 1921, the Hattori Clock Tower was demolished to rebuild a new one.