The Former Hokkaidō Government Office (Japanese: 北海道庁旧本庁舎) is located in the city center of Sapporo (札幌), Hokkaido (北海道), Japan. The building was once the highest administrative organ of Hokkaido, and is a symbol of Hokkaido also.
The building itself is already beautiful, and it is visually more romantic and charming with a little embellishment of snow and soft sunlight.
The Former Hokkaidō Government Office is a European-Baroque style official building, visitors can enter the building for free.
The building includes a conference room, a museum shop, a tourist information office, and a few historical exhibition rooms and libraries.
The historical exhibition rooms display the relics and documents related to the development history of Hokkaido. Among them, the materials about Karafuto (樺太) are the most detailed.
Karafuto used to be the northernmost area of Japan and has been part of Russia as Sakhalin Oblast since the end of World War II.
