Sapporo-shi

Sapporo is the capital and largest city of the northern island of Hokkaido. One of Japan's newest and most orderly cities, it has little in the way of traditional architecture.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Hokkaido Ishikari Subprefectual Bureau and Ōdōri Park.

Hokkaido Ishikari Subprefectual Bureau

Government office

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Ishikari Subprefecture is a subprefecture of Hokkaido Prefecture, Japan, located in the western part of the island. The subprefecture covers 3,539.86 square kilometres and on July 31, 2023 had a population of 2,379,802.

Ōdōri Park

Park

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Odori Park is a park located in the heart of Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan. Ōdōri means "large street" in Japanese. It stretches east to west through Nishi 1 chōme, Ōdōri to Nishi 12 chōme, Ōdōri, and divides the city into north and south sections.

Sapporo Beer Museum

Museum

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The Sapporo Beer Museum is a museum located in the Sapporo Garden Park in Higashi-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaidō, Japan. Registered as one of the Hokkaidō Heritage sites in 2004, the museum is the only beer museum in Japan.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Kita-ku and Higashi-ku.

Kita-ku

Suburb

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Kita-ku is a ward of Sapporo composed of residential neighborhoods mostly arranged in grid patterns, and each built surrounding a train station, broken up by areas of farmland and some light-industrial areas.

Higashi-ku

Suburb

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Higashi-ku is one of the 10 wards in Sapporo, Hokkaidō, Japan. It is directly translated as "east ward", and is neighboured to Kita-ku, Chūō-ku, Shiroishi-ku, Ebetsu, Tōbetsu.

Sapporo-shi

Also known as: “Sapporo”
Location: Hokkaido, Japan, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude

43.0667° or 43° 4′ north

Longitude

141.35° or 141° 21′ east

Elevation

26 metres (85 feet)

Open location code

8RM33982+M2

GeoNames ID

2128291

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In Other Languages

“Sapporo-shi” goes by many names.

Japanese: “札幌”
Japanese: “札幌市”

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