[Hokkaido Governor's Official Residence in Sapporo] Urban Oasis with Beautiful Cherry Blossom and Fall Foliage

Hokkaido Governor's Official Residence

Hokkaido Governor's Official Residence (北海道知事公館) is an apartment house for the Governor of the Hokkaido in Chuo ward, Sapporo city, and was built as a second house of Mitsui in 1936. The building has been used as the Hokkaido Governor's Official Residence since 1952. The site area is 51,623.25 m2. The building and a garden are built at the large site in the downtown of the Sapporo. Most of the site is covered with green plants, so it is called an urban oasis, and here is a secret peaceful place for Sapporo citizens, too. Admission free. A parking lot is not provided. Hokkaido Museum Of Modern Art (北海道立近代美術館) and Migishi Kotaro Museum of Art (三岸好太郎美術館) are also nearby here.

The Hokkaido Museum Of Modern Art is the largest museum of art in the Hokkaido, and the Migishi Kotaro Museum of Art is an annex of The Hokkaido Museum Of Modern Art. People say that the art is spiritual nourishment, so I somrtimes visit those to supply the spiritual nourishment. At the Hokkaido Museum Of Modern Art, large art exhibitions such as works rented by Bridgestone Museum of Art (ブリジストン美術館) are held, and art exhibitions featuring a artist, too. I encountered good works of Mr. Koji Kinutani (絹谷幸二) and Mr. Katumi Fukai (深井克美). Especially, the works of the Mr. Katumi Fukai looked like a dark fantasy worldview of BERSERK (ベルセルク), a popular comic, and I found an old genre. I also feel a knife-edge as if his works were works of Mr. Tetsuya Ishida (石田徹也).

Movie of BERSERK

SAPPORO

Sapporo (札幌) that about 1,960,000 people live is the largest city in Hokkaido. Although there are various theories, its origin of the name is "Dry Big River (乾いた大きな川)" in Ainu language. A population of the Sapporo is the 4th largest city after Yokohama, Osaka and Nagoya in japan, and the population accounts for 36 % of Hokkaido's population! So the Sapporo has been flourished as the center of the Hokkaido. The area of the Sapporo is 1,121.26 km2, and is about as big as Hong Kong, and is the 7th largest city in the Hokkaido. The Sapporo is also famous as a tourist city, and about 15 million people come. As for a climate, it is hot that temperature rises to nearly 25 degrees in a summer, but it is easy to live without moisture. I always feel a little cool. It is cold that temperature falls to nearly -10 degrees in a winter, and amount of snowfall sometimes has more than 1 m. Article is here