Isn’t your behavior dangerous when taking photos?
Trains cannot stop suddenly. A collision with a train may result in a fatal accident.
There was a train accident that a foreign tourist was killed in Hokkaido.
Follow the rules below and enjoy your trip in Hokkaido.
With the winter tourist season approaching, buses between Sapporo City and Jozankei Onsen are becoming extremely crowded.
If you are planning to visit Jozankei Onsen, please consider taking a cab.
Also, please take advantage of our same-day baggage delivery service between central Sapporo and Jozankei from January 15 (Wed.) to February 28 (Fri.).
Please click here for details.
The City of Sapporo will open a temporary baggage storage facility so that tourists can comfortably enjoy the Sapporo Snow Festival and sightseeing in Sapporo.
We hope you will take advantage of this service.
■Location
・Odori Station: Near the west ticket gate of the Tozai Line on the first basement floor of Odori Subway Station
・Sapporo Station: West concourse of JR Sapporo Station, in the Hokkaido Sapporo Tourist Information Center
■hours
Tuesday, January 28, 2025 – Wednesday, February 12, 2025 9:00 – 19:30
■Fees
1,000 yen per piece of baggage
■Payment Methods
Cash, electronic money, credit card, QR code
*The fee is the same regardless of the size of the baggage.
*Please pick up your baggage on the same day it is checked in.
*Baggage must be picked up on the same day it is checked in.
Items requiring refrigeration or freezing cannot be checked in.
Sapporo Hitsujigaoka Observation Hill will hold “Snow Sculpture Challenge 2025”.
In this experience program, visitors can make a “mini snow sculpture” using the same production method as that used for the Sapporo Snow Festival, a unique experience unique to Sapporo and only possible in winter.
Participants will be supported by instructors who have created large snow sculptures for the Snow Festival, so even inexperienced snow sculptors can participate without anxiety.
The program takes 2 to 3 hours, and all the necessary tools for snow sculpture making are provided free of charge.
Why don’t you create winter memories at the Sapporo Hitsujigaoka Observation Hill?
We look forward to seeing you there.
■Date and Time
February 4, 2025 – February 11, 2025 11:00 – 17:00 (Last admission 14:00)
■ Location
Sapporo Hitsujigaoka Observation Hill (1 Hitsujigaoka, Toyohira-ku, Sapporo)
■Fees
33,000 yen per snow sculpture
*One to five people can participate in one snow sculpture.
The City of Sapporo provides a Medical Communication Hotline to support foreign residents, including tourists, when they visit medical institutions.
After registering the necessary information via the application form or phone call, a representative will make an appointment at the hospital and provide an interpreter on the day of the visit.
This service is free of charge and does not require registration, so please take advantage of this service for emergency support at accommodations and tourist facilities.
■Contents of services
・Interpreter operators will interpret reservations and inquiries to hospitals in Sapporo.
・Telephone interpretation service is available when you visit a hospital.
・Volunteer interpreters in English or Chinese can accompany you to the hospital.
※This service is available only for hospitals in Sapporo City.
For more information, please click here.
The “National Highway 230 Outing Map” created by the National Highway 230 Collaborative Road Management Study Group has been updated.
Please check below.
National Highway 230 Outing Map
【For inquiries, please contact:】
Hokkaido Development Bureau
Sapporo Development and Construction Department
TEL: 011-611-0111
Check in with your smartphone to receive a gift!
Sep.12th (Tue) – Oct.31th (Tue), 2023
*We have extended the duration.
Hokkaido Sapporo Tourist Information Center
【Address】JR Sapporo West Concourse, Kita 6-jyo Nishi 4-chome, Kita-ku, Sapporo, at the Hokkaido Sapporo Food & Tourism Information Center
【Business Hours】8:30 to 20:00
★Gift
100 yen discount coupon for Shakotan Blend Coffee
(Available for use at the Hokkaido Sapporo Tourist Information Center and Shakotan Produce Market)
【Pickup Location】Hokkaido Sapporo Tourist Information Center
Kamui Banya
【Address】Kamui Banya Restaurant, 92 kozakicho Shakotan, Shakotan District, Hokkaido
【Business Hours】11:00 to 17:00
【Parking】Available
★Gift
Arrival certificate
Folding fan *limited to the first 20 people
【Pickup Location】Shakotan Gift Shop and Kamui Banya Restaurant
Shakotan Sightseeing Association
【Address】Funama-380-6 Bikunicho, Shakotan, Shakotan District,
at the Shakotan Tourism Center
【Business Hours】8:00 to 17:00
【Parking】Available
★Gift
Arrival certificate
Blue soft serve ice cream *limited to the first 20 people
【Pickup Location】Shakotan Sightseeing Association
Shokudo Rinkou
【Address】209 Irikachō, Shakotan, Shakotan District, Hokkaido
【Business Hours】7:00 to 18:00
【Parking】Available
★Gift
Arrival certificate
Reusable bag *limited to the first 20 people
【Pickup Location】Shokudo Rinko
↓You can see the Check point from this “Google Map”.↓
https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=1U67NeYM7XyOfbo765qNsmmaL5FMkEPg&usp=sharing
Shakotan Sightseeing Association 0135-44-3715
Sapporo, the host city for the Tokyo Olympic Marathon ,race walk and football, is a city with abundant nature in every season, a comfortable urban environment, and a cultured, sophisticated lifestyle. Residents and visitors are enchanted by Sapporo, with this popular city ranked as one of the top 3 most attractive cities in Japan.
Contents
The marathon course is a mostly flat, irregular circuit course that starts and finishes at Odori Park in the city center, and includes sightseeing spots throughout Sapporo.
After the start, it makes a large 20km north to south lap around Odori Park, and then two 10 km laps of the north side of the course including Hokkaido University.
Then, return to Odori Park to finish the race.
Odori Park, the start-finish point of the Marathon, is an urban oasis home to approximately 5,000 trees that stretches 1.5km east to west through the city center. Various events, such as the world-famous Sapporo Snow Festival, are hosted in this park all year round.
Just off the course is Sapporo’s most famous tourist spot, the Sapporo Clock Tower. Built in 1878 as a military drill hall for the Sapporo Agricultural College, the predecessor of Hokkaido University, the clock tower has been used for various purposes over the years, but today, as the oldest existing clock tower in Japan, it rings every hour of the day on the hour in Sapporo.
Athletes will run through the center of Susukino, the largest entertainment district in northern Japan, filled with about 3,500 restaurants, bars and entertainment facilities.
After passing through Susukino, you will come across Nakajima Park, surrounded by rich nature with a different look every season. The park has a Japanese garden with a teahouse and a concert hall that is the pride of Sapporo, making it a cultural center in the city. The runners will continue southward along the park.
The Toyohira River, known as the river where salmon return to every fall, serves as a valuable example of the harmonious combination of rich nature and urban functionality. The riverside path is also a popular running course for local runners.
Soseigawa-dori, which runs north to south through the city center, is a 3-kilometer long straight road. In the median strip, there is an 820-meter-long promenade with art works, making it a place of relaxation like an open-air museum.
The Sapporo TV Tower is a 147.2m tall radio tower built in 1956 to mark the start of TV broadcasting in Sapporo. From the observation deck, which is about 90 meters off the ground, you can enjoy a spectacular view of Odori Park, which changes its appearance with each season and event, making it a popular tourist attraction in Sapporo.
First opened in 1876 as the Sapporo Agricultural College, Hokkaido University is a national university with a long history. Athletes will run in the shade of trees such as elm and ginkgo while looking at the historic buildings and museums that still exist today on the vast and beautiful campus, providing them with the best competition environment.
A brick building built in 1888 as the government office of Hokkaido, the Former Hokkaido Government Office Building is a symbol of Hokkaido that has been designated as a national important cultural property. This point, where athletes will run against the backdrop of the red brick, will be one of the main spots for Sapporo scenery in the course.
After this, runners will head to the finish point at Odori Park.
The race walk will go around main street “Ekimae-dori”, the face of Sapporo.
The race will be held in the city center where Sapporo’s charms are concentrated, such as areas lined with commercial facilities and office buildings, Odori Park filled with greenery, and the lively entertainment district, Susukino.
The Sapporo Dome, the venue of football competition in Sapporo, serves as a year-round, all-purpose space for sporting and various events.
The world’s first “special hovering technology” allows natural and artificial turf to be easily interchanged to accommodate a variety of large-scale of events, such as Rugby World Cup 2019TM and the 2017 Sapporo Asian Winter Games.
It is also home to a pro football team and a pro baseball team.
We follow the trajectory of the Sapporo Olympic Winter Games.
The Olympic facilities inside Sapporo city retain the atmosphere of the time.
The Sapporo Olympics (The 11th Winter Olympiad) was held from February 3 to 13, 1972. Events were organized in and around Sapporo city, including Makomanai Park, where the opening and closing ceremonies were staged, and the atmosphere of that time remains today all through the seasons.
If you would like other images, go to the “Sapporo sightseeing photo Library”.
Please be sure to read the following important information.
Copyrights for the picture files belong to the city of Sapporo. Please observe the following guidelines when using the images.
･Image use is limited to that which positively contributes to the tourism promotion of Sapporo.
･Picture files can be used for commercial or individual use.
･There is no application procedure required for use, and credit does not need to be given.
･Commercial use of images as products (photographic collections or libraries, picture postcards, etc.) is prohibited. ･Redistribution of images is prohibited.
If you wish to use the following video materials, please submit the application form by e-mail.
After that, we will e-mail back the download URL to you.
Submission destination：Sports Affairs Bureau , City of Sapporo
e-mail address : t-2020(at)city.sapporo.jp
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As of 11:00 PM on March 18th, 2020
This is information about temporary facility closures and changes to opening hours to prevent the spread of novel coronavirus. Please check the official website for each facility for the latest information.
※Periods are subject to change
Please check the website below for closing information for other facilities.
City of Sapporo 『Closing information for city-owned facilities』
NoMaps MUSIC FESTIVAL is one of the best music festivals in Sapporo, which will be held on October 12, Saturday at six venues located around the central city. The festival features 36 live acts playing variety of genres as dance, electronic, hip hop, R&B, rock, idol(girl pop band) etc. through day and night.
As part of Sapporo city tourism promotion program, this event is admission free for foreign visitors and also residents. NoMaps committee, who organizes this festival, sees that this trial will be a good opportunity to provide evening entertainment but to promote Japanese music to foreign people.
To attend the festival, you need to pick up free festival wristbands at pick-up spots: KRAPS HALL and COLONY. Fore more information, take a look at the event’s flyer.
NoMaps MUSIC PARTY
The Former Hokkaido Government Office Building is closing temporarily from
October 1st, 2019 for renovations.
At Okurayama, a certified Japan Night View Heritage site, the observation deck lift was operating on specially extended nighttime business hours from July 26th to September 30th, and in accordance with the Late Night Sapporo campaign, we will be extending the period for these nighttime hours as shown below.
Okurayama Observatory Lift Extended Nighttime Hours
〇Period: October 1st – 31st, 2019
〇Hours: 8:30 – 20:00 (Lift normally closes at 18:00)
※Tickets will be sold until 19:45.
〇Price: Adults: 500 yen / Children: 300 yen
※Tickets come with coupon for the Late Night Sapporo campaign.
