Sapporo (札幌市)

Sapporo (札幌市)


The area that is nowadays known as Sapporo was first settles over 15,000 years ago. The settlements slowly grew and nowadays Sapporo is one of the world's largest cities. It is the capital of Japan's Hokkaidō prefecture and best known as the place that hosted the 1972 winter Olympics and for its annual Snow Festival. Sapporo is an important winter sports center and during the winter (November-February) it is packed with holiday makers.

There are numerous point of interest in Sapporo, some of which are listed here:

Apaert from the museum at Hokkaidō University, there are numerous other interesting museums in Sapporo. Some of them include the Hokkaidō Museum, the Sapporo City Archive Museum, the Sapporo Beer Museum and the Sapporo Salmon Museum, located in Makomanai Park.

Other nice parks in Sappore are:

There are numerous hotels, bars, café's and restaurants in the city. Sapporo is 840 km north of Tokyo.


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Miscellaneous Information

Latitude:    43°05' N
Longitude: 141°21' E
Elevation:  n/a

Population: 2,000,000
Cost-of-living compared to Washington D.C.: 203%

Hours from UTC: 9
Daylight savings time: n/a

City phone code: 11
Country phone code: 81

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