This paper aims to clarify a possibility that a model of the civic center plan in Yamagata city by Michitsune Mishima in early Meiji was the Sapporo prefectural office plan. Tatsuyuki Usui who was a government employee in the Ministry of Hokkaido development had an opportunity to know the Sapporo prefectural office plan. It is quite likely that he who became a local government employee in the Yamagata Prefecture suggested a civic center plan in imitation of the Sapporo prefectural office plan, and Michitsune Mishima who trusted him accepted it as a governor of Yamagata Prefecture.
