Former Mashike Elementary School
In 1878, the Mashike Elementary School began with the construction of the Mashike Education Center on a hill in Benten-cho (near the current Mashike Town Hall).
In 1936, the former Mashike Elementary School, the largest wooden school building still in existence in Hokkaido, was moved to a hill overlooking the town and watched over the children of Mashike for over 75 years until March 2012.
There is no end to the number of people who visit the school to remember what it once looked like.
It was designated as a Hokkaido Heritage Site in 2001, along with a group of historical buildings built from the Meiji period to the beginning of the Showa period that still remain on Hometown History Street in front of Mashike Station.
