Sapporo is a typically modern Japanese city, filled with international-style urban buildings. One of its landmark structures is a curiosity, a yee olde clapboard clock tower that would be more at home in a New England hamlet than an Asian industrial giant.
It's now a museum. Inside, various exhibits about the building and a bit of history of the city. A model of another building constructed during the same period and a display of original materials used for the clock tower.
The red star, another symbol of Sapporo. What did they eat back then? Glad you asked, see it all, in plastic.
The clock tower was built in 1878, originally used as a drill hall for the Sapporo Agricultural College. A clock was added in 1881.
The cute building, surrounded by modern society.
It's now a museum. Inside, various exhibits about the building and a bit of history of the city. A model of another building constructed during the same period and a display of original materials used for the clock tower.
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Upstairs, looking like a Quaker meeting house.
The red star, another symbol of Sapporo. What did they eat back then? Glad you asked, see it all, in plastic.
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A cute display of the clock tower as background element in various pop music records and other media.
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