Former Hokkaido Government Building (北海道庁旧本庁舎, Hokkaidōchō kyūhonchōsha) also known as Akarenga (red brick) building is a neo-baroque structure built in Sapporo American in 1888 as the basis for the administration of Hokkaido. It is the symbol of Hokkaido and was appointed as an important Japanese cultural asset in 1969.

Currently the building contains in its interior: a conference room, a museum, a tourist office, a few exhibition halls and a library. Visitors can enter the building for free.
Around the building there is a pool and gardens, in which some events are held on time.

In 1879 the building was destroyed by fire and was not rebuilt until 1886. In 1909 the building again suffered another fire, leaving the inside completely burned, but with its brick walls very little affected. In 1910 the building was rebuilt.

The measures of the building are 61 meters long, 36 meters wide and 33 feet high at the highest part of the tower.
The statement is made in total 2.5 million red bricks which were all built with materials from Japan.

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The Sapporo TV Tower (Sapporo Terebi-to in Japanese Sapporo TV Tower in English) was built in 1957 in Odori Park measures 147.2 meters, with a viewpoint to 90.38 meters.

The tower was built by Tachu Naito, who is famous for designing the Tokyo Tower (Tokyo Tower), at a total cost of 170 billion yen.
In 1961 a digital clock was installed at the height of 65 meters, which was donated by Matsushita Electric Industrial (Panasonic parent company). The installation of the clock was suggested by the company founder, Konosuke Matsushita M., who thought that the digital clock would provide a good service to the tower.
Digital clocks located at the four sides of the tower has been repaired twice, in 1998 and 2006. The interior and exterior of the TV tower was renovated in 2002 and the color of the walls in the second and third floor was changed from pale green to dark green.
In the repair of the clock in 2006 the ad under the name was changed watches "National" to "Panasonic" (Matsushita is also parent company of National).

Recently it has begun planning the reconstruction of the TV tower tower 650 meters high, with an area of ​​7800 m² and an observatory 500 meters in addition to hotel rooms, offices and sports centers, other than by course his role as a television tower.
In the event that the construction plan is carried out, this would be the highest building all over Japan, beating the future New Tokyo Tower which ended in 2011 with a height of 610 meters.

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The Clock Tower (Tokeidai) Sapporo is a wooden building known for its tourist attraction.

The building is of American design and is one of the few Western-style buildings still standing in Sapporo, a city which was developed in 1870 with the help of American government.

The clock tower was built in 1878 and is all that remains of the former headquarters of the school of agriculture. The building was one of the first buildings in the city, which was chosen as the administrative center of Hokkaido in 1868, which is known as the official birth of the city.
Currently the clock tower is the oldest building in town.

Your clock was installed in 1881, which continues to run until today, the tower chimes can be heard every hour.

The clock tower now houses a museum of history of the school of agriculture and rural development as a city of Sapporo. The tower is open Monday to Saturday and only has a price of 200 yen per adult.

The building is one of the most famous of Sapporo and is photographed by thousands of tourists each year, however many tourists expect to find a large building and are disappointed to see the clock tower has only two storeys high. This has led some to describe the building as "one of the three great disappointments of Japan" (Nihon gakkan san-dai).

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Today I write from the hotel in Sapporo!

It touched me now come to Sapporo to work in the offices of a client myself. I caught a flight at 8.15 am from Haneda Airport. In an hour and a half and had come to Sapporo. It was noon Sapporo-1C °, and occasionally snowing, so you can imagine the cold that was going on.
As I arrived early and visit with the client had been postponed to the afternoon I went for a walk and visit some monuments.
In the afternoon I started working and I am very late, so I do not have time to catch the last flight and I have had to stay here to sleep to return tomorrow morning.

Every time I go down the street I stay frozen, the hands they fit like cubits, so almost at midnight I have started to look for a hotel to sleep. In front of Sapporo Station there are plenty of hotels and even though I paid all costs I wanted to get into one that is extremely expensive, so I've gotten into a hotel about ten plants outside seemed fine, but My surprise was when I entered the room and a room was more than normalilla. I expected more.

Tomorrow I will tell you more details about what I've seen.