Kotoni Tondenhei Residence

The agricultural machinery of the time, and daily tools.

A farmer-soldier village of Kotoni where the first Japanese farmer-soldiers settled. 208 houses were built in total and soldier house no. 133 was rebuilt in its current location. The resident was Senjiro Seino from Miyagi.

5 Chome-1-12 Kotoni 2 Jō, Nishi-ku, Sapporo-shi



5 minutes walk from Kotono Subway Station
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Kotoni Tondenhei Residence
Kotoni Tondenhei Residence(琴似屯田兵村兵屋跡,Kotoni tondenhei-son heioku ato)
The tondenhei (屯田兵) were former samurai recruited from 1874 as farmer-soldiers, to farm and potentially defend Hokkaido.