How about taking a walk early in the morning in Odori Park ? This park is an outdoor museum for you to enjoy appreciating great works done by many excellent artists.

From the eastern end with TV tower to the western end with a stone-built-Shiryokan ( The former Sapporo Court of Appeals ), you find many artworks on the green, under the trees, by the fountain or by buildings.

If you can start this morning tour, please try visiting the west 8 block with “Black Slide Mantra “ by Isamu Noguchi, reflected in the sun rising from the direction of TV tower to the east.

As this is not only an artwork but also a slide for us to try on, take advantage of this time without being bothered with eyes of passers- by or children coming to slide on in the day-time !.

Let us introduce part of the artworks you find here. From the west to the east as follows.

· Yusui, sculpture ( Water-flow ) by Seiji Shimizu ( north 1 west 13,in front of Sapporo Education and Culture Hall )
· Kita no Matsuri ( Northfesta ) by Nobuo Sekine (west 12 )
· Wakai Onna no Zo (statue of Young woman)
by Churyo Sato ( west 12 )
· Statue of KURODA Kiyotaka ( west 12 )
· Statue of Horace Capron ( west 12 )
· Monument of literature by ARISHIMA Takeo by Moto (Sozo) Fujikawa ( west 9 )
· Black Slide Mantra by Isamu Noguchi ( west 8 )
· Haccho Daruma ( Dharma ) by Masayuki Nagare ( west 8 in front of Fukamiya bldg )
· Rika, statue by Churyo Sato ( west 8, in front of Korakuen Hotel )
· Izumi, statue ( Fountain ) by Shin Hongo (west 3 )
· Monument of poem by ISHIKAWA Takuboku by Tando Saka (west 3 )
· Bokudo ( Herdsmen ) by Takashi Mine ( west 3 )
· Kaitaku no Haha no Zo (Mother of settlement ) by Churyo Sato ( west 2 )
· Hana no Boshi Zo ( Mother and her child in flower ) by Takeo Yamanouchi (west 2 )
· Tsuru no Mai ( Dance of cranes ) by Takeo Yamanouchi ( west 2, on the top fl. Hokuriku Bank )
· Kibo ( Hope ) by Takeo Yamanouchi ( north 1 west 1 ) in front of Sapporo Citizens’ Hall )

(2007,April 10, renewed)

Odori Park Blessing of Light

Flower beds in Odori Park

Odori Park "We need sunshine !"