SAPPORO HOTELS & TRAVEL GUIDE
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Travel Guide to Sapporo Japan including hotels (Save up to 70%
on Sapporo Hotels), Sapporo Snow Festival, attractions and map.
Sapporo (札幌) is the capital and largest city of the northern island of
Hokkaido, Japan. One of Japan's newest cities, Sapporo's population has
grown from 7 in 1857 to nearly two million today.
Sapporo is known as the home of the Sapporo beer and miso-flavored
Sapporo ramen. The entertainment district Susukino is among the
largest and most well known in Japan. The 1972 Winter Olympics were
held in Sapporo. This was the first Winter Olympics to be held in Asia
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Sapporo at night from Sapporo TV Tower. Picture by
Kinori
Center high buildings are two Hotels. The far left
building is JR Tower and the lights of the Sapporo Station make a
horizontal line from its left. Sosei River (Sosei Gawa) and The
Soseigawa Road run from this right side.
Sapporo Sight Seeing
 The Sapporo TV Tower, at the eastern end of Odori, is a tourist trap
carbon copy of the Eiffel Tower with an observation deck at 90m (entry
¥700).
The Clock Tower (時計台 Tokeidai, close to Odori station) has become a
symbol of Sapporo, mostly by being the oldest building still standing;
it was constructed in 1878 for the Sapporo Agricultural College and
would not look out of place in Smalltown USA.
The Sapporo Beer Museum (North 7, East 9; tel. 01-1731-4368), run by
the Sapporo Brewing Company, offers free guided tours covering the
history of beer in Japan and the process of brewing. At the end of the
tour you can "taste" all the beer you want for 30 minutes or so; as
you might expect, this makes the tour quite popular, so advance
reservations are recommended in summer. Open 9 AM to 3:40 PM, get
there on the Loop 88 Factory bus line from Odori Station.
 The
Sapporo Snow Festival is held in the first week of February and is
Sapporo's largest event. The festival is best known for the ice
sculpture competition attracting artists from around the world,
competing to create the largest and most elaborate artworks from ice
and snow. (See separate article on
Sapporo Snow Festival)
Sapporo Food
Sapporo is famous for hairy crab (kegani), an expensive treat
available at any seafood restaurant, and miso ramen, a more affordable
local variation of the ubiquitous noodle dish with miso paste added to
the stock. The ramen in particular will warm you up nicely on a chilly
winter day.
Sapporo Drink
The Susukino area to the south of the centre is one of Japan's largest
nightlife (and red-light) districts. Get there on the subway Namboku
line, Susukino station.
The drink of choice when in Sapporo is obviously Sapporo beer.
Sapporo Transport
Sapporo is Hokkaido's main transport hub.
By plane
All international and inter-island flights land at
New Chitose Airport (CTS) to the
south of the city. The route from Tokyo is the most heavily travelled
in the world, with several dozen Jumbos flying daily on a variety of
carriers and flights as low as ¥10000 one way if you book in advance.
From the airport, JR trains run every 15 minutes directly to Sapporo
station (36 mins, ¥1040). There is also a Skybus providing a
door to door service (info@skybus-jp.com or +81 80 3266 5685).
A few flights within
Hokkaido also land at the older Okadama
Airport (OKD) to the north of the city.
By train
JR sleeper trains run from
Tokyo directly to Sapporo via the
Seikan Tunnel, taking around 16 hours for the journey. These are
popular, so book in advance. Note that even if travelling by Japan
Rail Pass, supplements totalling around ¥13000 will be charged for a
B2-class sleeper and various night express surcharges.
Trains also connect Sapporo to most major cities in
Hokkaido, including
Hakodate, Otaru and Asahikawa.
The JR Sapporo station is at North 2, West 1 on the subway Namboku
line.
By bus
Express buses connect to most points in
Hokkaido. The main terminal is next to the
Bus Center-Mae station of the subway Tozai line. (Article
based on
Wikitravel article
by Wikitravel users Jpatokal. Based on work by Anonymous user(s) of
Wikitravel. Article used under
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 1.0.)
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