Museum of the history of the development of Hokkaido is an outdoor Museum, which is located in a forested area in the suburbs of Sapporo called Nopporo. Square historic village is about 54 hectares. The Museum was opened in April 1983, it presents the life of immigrants from other regions of Japan.

In the historic village there are about 60 buildings in Japanese and Western styles, which were built in Japan during the periods of Meiji and Taisho eras (1868 to 1926), when the development of the island was the most active. The Museum consists of four parts, representing a typical city block, a village of fishermen, the village farmers and village in the highlands.

In the village you can see not only homes, but also other buildings – for example, a post office or newspaper office, police station, secondary school, and also small enterprises and workshops: the smithy, a brewery, a hairdresser, a grocery store, and even shop for the manufacture of rails. Here you can see the house of a family of Matsuhashi, fisherman Aoyama, as well as the house in which the family lived, who raised silkworms, for this it is usually played on the top floor. For children in the village built a Playground in the spirit of that time, and also has a workshop where they can try different crafts.

Hokkaido is the northernmost of the main Islands of Japan along with Honshu, Kyushu and Shikoku and the second largest. Its area is more than 20 percent of the country's territory, but live in Hokkaido 5, 6 million people. Until the mid-nineteenth century, the main population of the island were the Ainu, also lived on Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands. The Japanese, there were few, and they mostly inhabited the small Principality Matsumae in the southern part of the island. It was established in 1604 and was subordinate to the Tokugawa shoguns.

Active exploration of the island began after 1868, at the beginning of the era of the reign of Emperor Meiji. In 1869 the island, called yezo, received its current name, and its administrative center was in Sapporo. Since then and until the present time the island is under government control, which is supported by the Agency for the development of Hokkaido. In the Meiji period in Hokkaido began to develop mining and agriculture hands of exiles and immigrants from the small samurai, impoverished peasants and other representatives of the lower strata of Japanese society.