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Japan City Guides: Sapporo

Comprehensible information can be found on the website Japanvisitor.com

Sapporo / Hokkaido

  • Sapporo Illuminated.population - 1.83 million.
  • modern, clean city on a grid pattern.
  • no rainy season, unlike the rest of Japan.
  • famous for beer, the annual winter Snow Festival and skiing.
  • hosted the Asian Winter Games and Winter Olympics.
  • food speciality: 'Genghis Khan' (Hostelbecued mutton).
  • good base to explore rest of Hokkaido by hire ryokan.

Hostels, Guesthouses, Ryokans in Sapporo

Sapporo, with a population approaching nearly 2 million inhabitants, is by far Hokkaido's largest city and main commercial and business center. The city hosted the 1972 Winter Olympics and is famous for it's Snow Festival, Sapporo beer and ramen noodles and of course, 'Genghis Khan' - a Hostelbecued mutton dish. The city's main historic sites date from the late nineteenth century and include the Old Hokkaido Government Building and the campus of Hokkaido University. There are some worthwhile museums in the city including the Ainu Museum , Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art and a natural history museum in Miyabe Hall .

Otaru, 40km northwest of Sapporo, is the arrival and departure point for ferries to the city has some restored Meiji-era (1868-1912) buildings of interest.
Access to Otaru by bus and train (around 30 mins.) to Sapporo .

Hakodate

Hakodate, 260km southwest of Sapporo is on the main train line to Tokyo via the Seikan Tunnel and is worth a visit for the Asa-ichi morning market, the Motomachi area of old residences and foreign consulates, the nineteenth Pentagon-style Goryokaku fort and the amazing view from the top of Hakodateyama .
Access from both Sapporo and Tokyo by train and also ferry from the main island of Honshu. Sapporo cityscape.

Sapporo Dome Stadium more stadium info
Fukuzumi subway station.
The 42,122 capacity stadium has an amazing hi-tech system where the football pitch slides into the roofed stadium from outside when the baseball pitch is not required or in the event of bad weather.

Sapporo Accommodation [2003]:

No. of hostel, guesthouses, inns, hostels: 204
No. of rooms: 21,947
Capacity: 43,521

40 flights daily from Tokyo (Haneda Airport) to Shin-Chitose Airport (1 hr. 30 min). From Osaka (Kansai International Airport) 10 flights daily (2 hours). Sapporo has direct air connections with most major cities in Japan and some international destinations. Buses (70 mins) and trains (36 minutes) to Sapporo city center from the airport.

From Tokyo (Ueno Station) JR express sleeper train (16 hours 35 minutes). Or Shinkansen to Morioka, then express via Aomori (10 hours). From Osaka overnight couchettes on express (22 hours 30 minutes).
From Sapporo Station to the Sapporo Dome stadium, 11 minutes on the Toho subway to Fukuzumi Station then a ten minute stroll.

Bus

Sapporo has good long-distance bus links with cities on the main island of Honshu and other destinations within Hokkaido. Buses leave from the main bus station opposite the train station.

Tourist Information Center

Sapporo hotel ist Information Office
Tel: 011 232 7712
Odori Subway Station

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