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10 Time Travel Hokkaido Web Information 11 Pioneer Period not just an agricultural technical advisor but depicted in over 4,000 exhibits from Here are some of the foreign-language websites that introduce also greatly influenced the building of the primeval times in which the Asian Hokkaido’s major tourist spots, travel and shopping information. Written by Osamu Yajima students’ characters through moral education. mammoths roamed, to modern times. The development of Hokkaido increased Hokkaido Furano Chitose http://en.visit-hokkaido.jp/ http://www.furanotourism.com/english/home. http://www.city.chitose.hokkaido.jp/j8/chitose_us/ rapidly after the establishment of the new Historical Village of Hokkaido, htm http://www.1000sai-chitose.or.jp/english/index.htm Meiji government in 1868. Around that Historical Museum of Hokkaido Eastern Area time, Hokkaido’s population – comprising (Atsubetsu-ku, Sapporo) Shimukappu Tomakomai http://www.vill.shimukappu.lg.jp/shimukap/new/ http://www.city.tomakomai.hokkaido.jp/e-page/ Wajin Mombetsu indigenous Ainu and immigrant or The Historical Village of Hokkaido is e-home.html index.htm http://mombetsu.jp/english/index.html Japanese from all regions of the composed of structures built in various http://www.nidom.com/english/index.html archipelago – was only about 120,000, but parts of Hokkaido during the Meiji and Abashiri Noboribetsu http://www.city.abashiri.hokkaido.jp/english/ by 1920, only half a century later, the early Showa periods, which have been http://www.noboribetsu-spa.jp/eng/ number had reached over 2.3 million. transferred there and rebuilt to create an index.html Hokkaido’s development was carried out outdoor museum. A total of 52 historical Kitami as a government initiative, with the aim of structures have been rebuilt on the http://www.city.kitami.lg.jp/english/ providing livelihoods for the excess 54.2-hectare site, set amid the natural Historical Village of Hokkaido agricultural manpower, through the splendor of primeval woodlands, including Access: Approx. 15 min. by JR Hokkaido Bus from Shin exploitation of marine products and forestry the former Sapporo Railway Station, the Sapporo Station on either the JR Line or Tozai Subway Line Open: May to Sept. from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. (open every day) resources, and the coal required for Japan’s Colonial Commission Headquarters, Oct. to Apr. from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. (closed every Monday Central Area modernization. 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