I love visiting Sapporo! My family spent a summer vacation there most recently in 2023.
We took our son for his birthday to Moerenuma Park, and he broke his arm :( Fortunately, there was a nice family there who spoke good English, and they saw what was going on and he offered to drive us to the hospital! This park is a ways outside of the city, at least a 30 minute or more bus ride from a medical center, plus time waiting for the bus, which comes every half hour too. (It was a holiday weekend, so a lot of places were closed also).
Very grateful for their help. So many nice folk in Japan.
I was there this spring. It is wonderful. There is nothing to do really, you wander around and slowly the scale of the sculptures, the viewing distance from the pyramid and mounds, the serenity of the nature seeps into your brain and for a time you surrender to that indescribable feeling that arises from being immersed in something big. Big in terms of scale but also in intent from the makers.
It's a bit like being in a cathedral, a hilly forest and a big, silent city at the same time.
Nothing to do? It's a sculpture park. Surely the something to do is to appreciate the art?
At the opposite end of the world is Frogner Park, Oslo, home to Vigeland's sculptures. Also nothing to do except appreciate the art along with quite a few Japanese people who travel to Oslo do just that.
The title picture is not from the park or is it? None of the images in the rest of the article do not look like that. And Google search of the park name does not return anything like that.
We took our son for his birthday to Moerenuma Park, and he broke his arm :( Fortunately, there was a nice family there who spoke good English, and they saw what was going on and he offered to drive us to the hospital! This park is a ways outside of the city, at least a 30 minute or more bus ride from a medical center, plus time waiting for the bus, which comes every half hour too. (It was a holiday weekend, so a lot of places were closed also).
Very grateful for their help. So many nice folk in Japan.