Nakajima Park

Nakajima Park is an urban park with cultural facilities and historic buildings that is a great place to experience all seasons of the year. The park has about 5,000 trees, including such trees as: Japanese red spruce, yew, gingko Ezo mountain cherry, and Japanese elm and wisteria.

In the snowy winter, the park offers a cross-country skiing course. In spring Nakajima park is full of cherry blossoms and is a beautiful area for walking around and taking pictures.

In the summer, Sapporo holds the Hokkaido Shrine Festival. The festival features events happening around Sapporo, and Nakajima Park is no exception. Area paths and paths inside the park are always bustling with shops, stalls, game stalls and a few haunted houses and games for kids. It was a busy time when many people flocked to Nakajima Park to enjoy the festivities.

Fall, like spring, is the perfect time to walk around the park and enjoy the wonderful shades of autumn leaves. A great spot for a family picnic, or relaxing by the large lake in the warm autumn sunshine.

• Lake Shobu: In the spring after the ice melts, people rent boats to paddle around the lake. In 40 minutes you can relax on the water. Great place to date and enjoy the spring atmosphere.
• Hoheikan Building: the oldest wooden historical building in Japan, used as a Western-style guesthouse. It now mainly serves as a wedding venue and is considered an important cultural property.
• Sapporo Astronomical Observatory: is a public observatory completed in 1958. The facility is equipped with a 20cm diameter refracting telescope and hosts nighttime stargazing (free for visitors). public) for six days per month, usually between Fridays and Sundays. Don't miss this opportunity to see the seasonal constellations as well as the moon and other planets in our solar system.
• Japanese Garden and Hassa-on: This quiet and beautiful garden has a small pond inside and houses a collection of stone lanterns modeled on famous originals from all over Japan. Hassa-on teahouse is located in a garden designed from the Edo period and was moved to Sapporo in 1919. The atmosphere here is very relaxing to walk around, especially in autumn, where you can see the view. the leaves are changing.
• Sapporo Kitara Concert Hall: Opened in 1997, it is the largest concert hall in Hokkaido. The most modern venue is the stage for classical concerts with a capacity of more than 2,000 spectators.
• Hokkaido Literature Museum: located inside the grounds of Nakajima Park, which displays collections of about 260,000 works by authors such as Takuboku Ishikawa, Takeo Arishima, Takiji Kobayashi and Ayako Miura, ... as well as collections The collection of Hokkaido literature from the mid-19th century to the contemporary period includes novels, critical works, essays, poetry, children's literature, and folklore.

Hours of Operation: The park is open all day

Website: http://www.sapporo-park.or.jp/nakajima/lang/english.html