Sapporo - Day Five Part 1

It was a brisk -6 degrees

and we caught a bus to the outskirts of town

To the Hokkaido historical village

I'm not sure if the entrance building is especially historical

but the rest of the "village" is composed of historical building that have been relocated there to preserve them

It was possible to tour the village on a horse drawn sled.

some of the buildings are purely for show, but others like this one have interior rooms decked out as a sort of museum and you can go inside and look at exhibits

I'm not sure if this was supposed to depict how the room would have been laid out, or if they were just jamming as much antique furniture into the space as possible. The building had enough large rooms that combining a study and a living room wouldn't have been necessary. 

This was one of the closed off buildings. (Or possibly it just looked small and boring, you needed to take your shoes off to go inside each building and there were a lot of buildings, so there was a bit of a value judgement as to whether any given building was worth 5 minutes of debooting/rebooting to look inside)

It was snowing pretty heavily too.

A family shrine

Another room that seems more "What can we jam in here?" than functional.

This was a high school

The school was so poor students were forced to use Yamaha organs as desks

or maybe that room was supposed to be the music room and this was a typical classroom?

A shrine

in shrine

 

This was the main building of five that used to be for herring fishing 

Inside the main building

and one of the related storehouses

A wagon wright(?)

A general store

inside

Barber shop

A post office

A japanese ターディス (or Police Box)

A doctor's office

A sake brewery

A newspaper office

A noodle shop

An Inn

In the inn

The historical village is affiliated with a nearby Hatsubutsukan, and you can get a cheaper combined ticket so we headed there next

I dunno why she's posing with the trophy like this. It's not like he shot the mammoth herself... 

Steller's Sea Cow

Some ancient swords that have seen better days

Some birds in front of an Ainu canoe

Awww look, He wants to smell the camera.

Hmmm, this looks familiar...

A bit of wood that has been carved into a bear, that is also a container (of sorts)

An ainu cage for trapping bears

Awww look, He wants to eat the camera.

An old tram

From the reverse angle

A draft horse

Awww look, He wants to smell the camera.

Bear carvings

A display of old food items. This is a box from 1912 used to deliver pizza to people's homes.

Some examples of very early food sample display items for restaurants.
Not the early craftmanship and both how terrible and as a result authentic it is.

Matchbooks through the ages.

A forest diorama, showing the variety of animals to be found

as cute as most of these animals are, they are kept away from museum guests behind a railing, and are therefore too far away to be able to smell the camera

There was a convoluted series of slides and conveyers that took wooden balls around the forest diorama and showed the food chain, but you had to pick the ball up and put it in a hole to start the process, and that might spread covid, so it wooden balls were banned.

A display of some of those animals interacting with man made/urban environments

Awww look, He wants to smell the camera.

A ferret, on someone's lawn, I guess?

Awww look, He wants to smell the camera.

A raccoon, also on some lawn? A lot of grass in this unnatural hellscape we subject these poor creatures to I guess?

Awww look, He wants to smell the camera.

A fox fights some crows for a bag of trash. More what I was expecting from this exhibit honestly.

Back to nature with stuff that lives on a beach

Awww look, She wants to smell the camera.

A baby walrus

Awww look, He's copying his mum.

Some crows were due to fight a fox for some dead whale, but foxes can't swim.

A memorial room at the museum that is used for function and opening new exhibits etc.

The opposite was is covered in horseshoes for some reason.
That's a lot of horseshoes.