Hokkaido
Central Circuit
Sapporo

Nishi

Nishi is a ward of composed of residential neighborhoods mostly arranged in grid patterns, with some areas of farmland and forested mountainous terrain mostly near its western and southern edges.
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  • Type: Suburb with 214,000 residents
  • Description: one of the ten wards in Sapporo city, Japan
  • Also known as: “Nishi Ku”, “Nishi Ward”, “Nishi-ku”, and “Nishi-ku, Sapporo”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Okurayama Ski Jump Stadium and Sōen Station.

Stadium
Photo: Hwoarang17, Public domain.
The Ōkurayama Ski Jump Stadium, also known as the Ōkurayama-Schanze is a ski jumping venue located in the Miyanomori area in , Hokkaidō, .

Railway station
Photo: Mister0124, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a railway station in , , Japan, operated by the Hokkaido Railway Company. The station is numbered S02.

Shinto shrine
Photo: Daigaku2051, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Hokkaidō Shrine, named the Sapporo Shrine until 1964, is a Shinto shrine located in , , . Sited in , , , , the Hokkaido Shrine enshrines four kami including the soul of the Emperor Meiji.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Kita-ku and Chūō-ku.

Suburb
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a ward of 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. is situated 3½ km northeast of Nishi.

Suburb
Photo: Kuriki, Public domain.
is one of the ten wards in , , . means "central ward" in Japanese. City administration and entertainment facilities are centred in this ward. is situated 4 km southeast of Nishi.

Suburb
Photo: saname777, CC BY 2.0.
is one of the 10 wards in , Hokkaidō, . It is directly translated as "east ward", and is neighboured to , , , Ebetsu, Tōbetsu. is situated 5 km east of Nishi.

Nishi

Latitude
43.0746° or 43° 4′ 28″ north
Longitude
141.301° or 141° 18′ 4″ east
Population
214,000
Elevation
304 metres (997 feet)
Open location code
8RM338F2+R9
Open­Street­Map ID
node 364095601
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­suburb
Geo­Names ID
7429559
Wiki­data ID
Q1135640
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Catalan to Yue Chinese—“Nishi” goes by many names.
  • Catalan: “Nishi (Sapporo)”
  • Catalan: “Nishi”
  • Cebuano: “Nishi-ku (subdistrito sa Hapon, Hokkaidō)”
  • Cebuano: “Nishi-ku”
  • Chinese: “西区”
  • Chinese: “西區”
  • Esperanto: “Okcidenta Kvartalo”
  • French: “Nishi-ku”
  • German: “Nishi-ku”
  • Hungarian: “Nisi-ku”
  • Indonesian: “Nishi-ku, Sapporo”
  • Irish: “Nishi-ku”
  • Italian: “Nishi-ku”
  • Japanese: “Nishi-ku”
  • Japanese: “にしく”
  • Japanese: “ニシク”
  • Japanese: “札幌市西区”
  • Japanese: “西区”
  • Korean: “니시구”
  • Persian: “نیشی-کو، ساپورو”
  • Polish: “Nishi-ku”
  • Polish: “Nishi”
  • Spanish: “Barrio Nishi”
  • Thai: “เขตนิชิ”
  • Turkish: “Nishi, Sapporo”
  • Ukrainian: “Нісі”
  • Ukrainian: “Район Ніші”
  • Vietnamese: “Nishi, Sapporo”
  • Yue Chinese: “西区”
  • Yue Chinese: “西區”
  • “Nishi-ku”

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