Nakajima Park ( 中島公園 , Nakajima Kōen ) is a city park in Chūō-ku, Sapporo , Hokkaido , Japan. The park has a lake, two streams, a museum, a concert hall, an observatory, a historical building housing a tea shop, and several lawns and forests. At the south end, there are two shrines.
4-659: The Nakajima Sports Center ( 中島スポーツセンター , Nakajima Supōtsu Sentā ) is a multi-purpose event facility located in Nakajima Park in Chūō-ku, Sapporo , Hokkaido , Japan. It was built in 1954 for the National Sports Festival of Japan . A concert by the rock band Rainbow in January 1978 resulted in one death when 2,000 fans rushed the stage. By the end of the 1990s, the facility had lost its viability and
8-402: A large main hall, small chamber music hall, and rehearsal rooms. A restaurant, nursery room, and museum shop are also located in the building. The Sapporo Astronomical Observatory, Nakajima Sports Center , Puppet Theatre, Children's Hall, Hokkaido Museum of Literature, a Japanese Garden, Hasso-an (tea house), and Hōheikan , (historical building and wedding venue), are among the attractions of
12-586: The Park. The park also contains some sports grounds (tennis courts). These are open between April and November every year. The park is also popular for boating in summer, on the Shobu Pond, and cross-country skiing in winter. Prior to the construction of Nakajima Park, in 1874, a sluice gate was constructed on the Kamokamo River and a lumberyard was open. Lumber felled from the mountain were stored in
16-562: Was eventually converted to its current state. Nakajima Park The park has about 5,000 trees, including Japanese red spruce, yew, ginkgo , Sargent's cherry , black acacia, and Japanese elm. The largest feature of the park is Shobu Pond, located near the center of the park. The park contains the Sapporo Concert Hall , also known as "Kitara". Opened on 1997, it is the largest concert hall in Hokkaido, and houses
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