| Watanabe Junichi Museum of Literature |
| Address |
South 12 West16, Chuo-ku, Sapporo (Tel: 011-551-1282) |
| Description |
 Located in the natural surrounds of Nakajima Park and designed by renowned architect Tadao Ando, the Watanabe Junichi Museum of Literature has an exhibition room on the 2nd floor, a 1st-floor library that boasts an extensive collection of novels by popular Hokkaido-born writers, and a lecture room that can accommodate 90 people in the basement. |
| Hours |
- 9:30 – 18:00 (March - Sept.)
- 9:30 – 17:30 (Oct. – Feb.) (Last entry is 30 minutes before closing)
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| Closed |
Mondays (Tuesday if Monday falls on a national holiday) |
| Admission fee |
- 300 yen for high school students and older
- 50 yen for elementary and junior high school students
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| Access |
7-minute walk from Exit 1 of Nakajima Koen Station on the Namboku subway line[N09] |
| URL |
http://www.elleair.co.jp/watanabe/ |
| Hokkaido Museum of Literature |
| Address |
Nakajima Koen 1, Chuo-ku, Sapporo (Tel: 011-511-7655) |
| Description |
The museum has about 220,000 items associated with Hokkaido-related novelists and their works, such as Takuboku Ishikawa, Takeo Arishima and Takiji Kobayashi. |
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| Hours |
9:30 – 17:00 (Last entry is 30 minutes before closing) |
| Closed |
Mondays, year-end and New Year holidays (Dec.29 – Jan.4), days exhibits are changed |
| Admission fee |
- 400 yen for adults
- 200 yen for high school and university students
- Free of charge for those aged 65 and over and junior high school students and younger
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| Access |
7-minute walk from either Nakajima Koen Station[N09] or Horohirabashi Station on the Namboku subway line[N10] |
| URL |
http://www.h-bungaku.or.jp/main.html |
