Museum of the History of Hokkaido - this open-air museum, which is located in a forested area in the suburbs of Sapporo, called Nopporo. The area of ​​the historic village of about 54 hectares. The museum was opened in April 1983, its territory is represented by a life of immigrants from other parts of Japan.

The historic village has about 60 buildings in the Japanese and Western styles, which were built in Japan in the Meiji and Taisho periods (1868 to 1926), when the development of the island's most active happened. The museum consists of four parts, representing the typical city block, a village of fishermen, farmers and village a village in the highlands.

In the village you can see not only houses, but also other buildings - such as a post office or a newspaper office, police station, high school, as well as small businesses and workshops: a smithy, a brewery, a hairdresser, a grocery store and even a workshop for the production of the slide. Here you can see the family home Matsuhasi, fisherman Aoyama, as well as the house where the family lived, bred silkworms, for this it is usually assigned the top floor. For children in the village built a playground in the spirit of the time and working studio, where they can try various crafts.

Hokkaido is the northernmost of Japan's main islands along with Honshu, Kyushu and Shikoku and the second largest. Its area is more than 20 percent of the country and live in Hokkaido 5, 6 million. People. Until the middle of XIX century, the main population of the island were the Ainu, also lived in the Sakhalin and Kuril Islands. There was a bit of Japanese, and they are mostly inhabited by small principality Matsumae in the southern part of the island. It was formed in 1604 and is subject to the Tokugawa shogun.

Active development of the island began after 1868, at the beginning of the era of the reign of Emperor Meiji. In 1869, the island called Ezo, got its current name, and it became the administrative center of Sapporo. Since then and up to now the island is under government control, which provides the Hokkaido Development Agency. In the era of Meiji Hokkaido began to develop mining and agriculture hands of exiles and immigrants from many small samurai impoverished farmers and other members of the lower strata of Japanese society.