Hokkaido
Hokkaido is the second-largest and northernmost of Japan's four main islands. Together with its surrounding islands, it comprises the largest and northernmost prefecture, making up its own region.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: prefecture of Japan with 5,110,000 residents
- Description: prefecture of Japan
- Also known as: “Hokkaidō”, “Hokkaido Prefecture”, “Hokkaidō Prefecture”, “Hokkaido region”, “Hokkaidō region”, “JP-01”, “Prefecture of Hokkaido”, and “Prefecture of Hokkaidō”
- Neighbors: Aomori, Russia, and Sakhalin Oblast
Places of Interest
Highlights include Hokkaido Ishikari Subprefectual Bureau and Odori Park.
Hokkaido Ishikari Subprefectual Bureau
Government office
The Central Circuit covers the western and central parts of the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido.
Odori Park
Park
Photo: redlegsfan21, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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 Clock Tower
Museum
Photo: Balon Greyjoy, CC0.
Sapporo Clock Tower is a wooden structure and tourist attraction located at North 1 West 2, Chūō-ku, Sapporo, the largest city on the island of Hokkaidō, Japan.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Sapporo and Kita-ku.
Sapporo
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.
Kita-ku
Suburb
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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
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.
Hokkaido
- Category: dō
- Location: Japan, East Asia, Asia
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Hokkaido” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “هوكايدو”
- Armenian: “Հոկայդո (նահանգապետություն)”
- Armenian: “Հոկայդո”
- Asturian: “Hokkaidō (prefeutura)”
- Asturian: “Hokkaidō (Xapón)”
- Asturian: “Hokkaidō”
- Asturian: “prefeutura de Hokkaidō”
- Azerbaijani: “Hokkaydo prefekturası”
- Belarusian: “Губернатарства Хакайда”
- Belarusian: “прэфектура Хакайда”
- Belarusian: “прэфэктура Хакайда”
- Belarusian: “Хакайда (прэфектура)”
- Belarusian: “Хакайда (прэфэктура)”
- Belarusian: “Хакайда”
- Catalan: “Hokkaidō”
- Catalan: “prefectura d’Hokkaidō”
- Catalan: “prefectura de Hokkaidō”
- Cebuano: “Hokkaidō (prepektura sa Hapon)”
- Cebuano: “Hokkaidō”
- Chechen: “Хоккайдо (префектура)”
- Chechen: “Хоккайдо”
- Chinese: “北海道”
- Croatian: “Hokkaido, prefektura”
- Croatian: “Hokkaido”
- Czech: “prefektura Hokkaidó”
- Danish: “Hokkaido prefektur”
- Dutch: “Hokkaidō”
- Dutch: “Prefectuur Hokkaido”
- Dutch: “Prefectuur Hokkaidō”
- Esperanto: “Gubernio Hokajdo”
- Estonian: “Hokkaido prefektuur”
- Estonian: “Hokkaidō prefektuur”
- French: “Hokkaidō”
- French: “Préfecture d’Hokkaidō”
- French: “préfecture de Hokkaidō”
- Galician: “prefectura de Hokkaidō”
- German: “Hokkai Do”
- German: “Hokkaidō”
- German: “Nordmeerpräfektur”
- German: “Nordmeerreichskreis”
- German: “Nordmeerroute”
- Greek: “Χοκκάιντο”
- Hebrew: “הוקאידו”
- Hungarian: “Hokkaidó prefektúra”
- Indonesian: “Hokkaido”
- Indonesian: “Hokkaidō”
- Indonesian: “Prefektur Hokkaido”
- Indonesian: “Prefektur Hokkaidō”
- Irish: “Maoracht Hokkaido”
- Italian: “Prefettura di Hokkaido”
- Italian: “prefettura di Hokkaidō”
- Italian: “Prefettura di Hokkaidō”
- Japanese: “Hokkaidō”
- Japanese: “ほっかいどう”
- Japanese: “ホッカイドウ”
- Japanese: “北海”
- Japanese: “北海道”
- Javanese: “Hokkaido”
- Kara-Kalpak: “Xokkaydo prefekturası”
- Kara-Kalpak: “Xokkaydо”
- Korean: “북해도”
- Korean: “호까이 도”
- Korean: “호까이도”
- Korean: “호까이도오”
- Korean: “혹가이 도”
- Korean: “혹가이도”
- Korean: “혹까이 도”
- Korean: “혹까이도”
- Korean: “홋까이 도”
- Korean: “홋까이도”
- Korean: “홋카이 도”
- Korean: “홋카이도 지방”
- Korean: “홋카이도”
- Korean: “훗카이 도”
- Korean: “훗카이도”
- Korean: “흣카이 도”
- Korean: “흣카이도”
- Latvian: “Hokaido prefektūra”
- Latvian: “Hokaido reģions”
- Mingrelian: “ჰოკაიდოშ პრეფექტურა”
- Northern Sami: “Hokkaidō prefektuvra”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Hokkaido prefektur”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Hokkaidō prefektur”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Hokkaido prefektur”
- Occitan (post 1500): “prefectura de Hokkaidō”
- Ossetian: “Хоккайдо (префектурæ)”
- Ossetian: “Хоккайдо”
- Pampanga: “Hokkaidō labuad”
- Persian: “هوکایدو”
- Polish: “prefektura Hokkaido”
- Portuguese: “Hokkaido”
- Romanian: “Hokkaido”
- Romanian: “Hokkaidō”
- Romanian: “Prefectura Hokkaido”
- Romanian: “Prefectura Hokkaidō”
- Russian: “Префектура Хоккайдо”
- Russian: “Хоккайдо”
- Scots: “Hokkaido Prefectur”
- Scots: “Hokkaidō Prefectur”
- Scots: “Hokkaidō”
- Scots: “Prefectur o Hokkaido”
- Serbian: “Хокаидо”
- Slovenian: “Hokaido”
- Slovenian: “Hokkaido”
- Spanish: “Prefectura de Hokkaido”
- Swedish: “Hokkaido prefektur”
- Swedish: “Hokkaidō prefektur”
- Tajik: “Prefekturai Hokkajdo”
- Tajik: “Префектураи Ҳоккаидо”
- Tajik: “Префектураи Ҳоккайдо”
- Tajik: “Ҳоккайдо”
- Tatar: “Хоккайдо (префектура)”
- Tatar: “Хоккайдо”
- Thai: “จังหวัดฮกไกโด”
- Thai: “ฮกไกโด”
- Ukrainian: “Префектура Хоккайдо”
- Ukrainian: “Регіон Хоккайдо”
- Ukrainian: “Хоккайдо”
- Vietnamese: “Hokkaidō”
- Western Frisian: “Hokkaidō”
- Western Frisian: “Prefektuer Hokkaido”
- Yue Chinese: “北海道”
- “ma Okawito”
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