Sapporo, Japan Travel Blogs

Yuki Matsuri...
Feb 10, 2008 (48 photos)

... at the YHA some three months prior, and it turned out to be a fantastic place... After flying up to Sapporo from Tokyo on one of Japan's budget airlines, I soon discovered that it was pretty darn cold, with temperatures around minus ten! This didn't ...

Sapporo - The Snow Festival
Feb 8, 2007 (10 photos)

SAPPORO Every year, the Snow Festival attracts many visitors from Japan and other countries to gather at the Odori Park, about two million people come to Sapporo to see the beautiful snow statues and ice sculptures which line Odori Park and the main ...

Life discovered in Japan
Feb 9, 2005

1,000's of tiny snowmen!
Apr 14, 2008 (135 photos)

... made some snow sculptures in a park. It's evolved into a HUGE outdoor festival in and around a large park in central Sapporo. It attracts almost 2 million people from all over the world every year. In addition to massive sculptures as big as office ...

Adventures in Hokkaido, Month of Gluttony
Aug 31, 2007 (151 photos)

... the city and enjoyed the Summer Beer Festival! There is a huge park called Odori Park that lies in the center of Sapporo, lined with large trees, beautiful fountains and plenty of green space with actual grass (seems like a luxury in Japan due to ...

The Wrath of Ghengis Khan
Feb 10, 2005 (7 photos)

Snow Festival in Hokkaido!
Feb 13, 2007 (59 photos)

... designed according to North American style rectangular street system and thus is one of the easiest cities to navigate in Japan! Sapporo became world famous in 1972 when the Olympic Winter Games were held there. Today, the city is well known for ...

Sapporo-Tomakomai-Tsuruga
Dec 22, 2008 (15 photos)

Sailing amidst the roaring ocean is a great experience yet so risky.It is the road less traveled. The beauty of the ship is worth-remembering yet the best month to travel is summer time.

Sapporo, Gateway to Hokkaido
Jun 26, 2008 (11 photos)

... the figure skating made us both feel sick. After our sports musuem, we headed to the Sapporo beer museum. Sapporo is one of the major beer brands in Japan, it produces lots of various beers. Unfortunately, the museum itself was all in Japanese, but they ...

Nights out with Mason
Dec 28, 2006 (17 photos)

Here is a random collection of different nights out with friends.

Beer fest!
Jul 17, 2009 (3 photos)

... ;Sapporro being the beer capital of Japan, we headed to the beer museum.  Fascinating though it was, we were still below Japan's drinking age and therefore felt a little left out of the festivities.  The beer museum was adjacent to a crazy huge ...

Dining with Mason
Dec 1, 2006 (15 photos)

Here's some of my cooking experiements as well as some of my favourite places to eat out.

Straight and Narrow
Feb 8, 2008 (8 photos)

... experience again, especially after flying. The scenery was great but bum fatigue really hit us as we continued to travel. Arrival into Sapporo was at 11:56pm, after which we descended into the Subway to go to Susukino. There was a bit of a crowd out ...

Sapporo
Aug 15, 2002

wet and rainy

Sapporo
Feb 9, 2009 (9 photos)

... place called Ramen Alley which is a tiny alley lined with noodle shops. Yum! I also (inevitably) visited the Sapporo brewery (the first brewery in Japan). Met some kiwis there and we did a bit of tasting. I also headed up the ski jump from the Sapporo ...

Gettin' 'Er Done at Rising Sun
Aug 21, 2005 (2 photos)

... speed limits low, say around 50 km, but everyone usually goes about 80 or faster. After staying at a friend's apartment in Sapporo, we regrouped on friday morning and headed to the festival, which is actually in Ezo, about 20 minutes outside the city ...

Hokkaido - School Trip
Jan 29, 2005 (8 photos)

Imari Koukou Shougako Ryokou or Imari High's School Trip was to Hokkaido this year. In our really cool uniforms, along with two hundred some other students, I went skiing and walking around in the snow - good time had by... most. :)

Sapporo
Sep 5, 2006 (16 photos)

... and fish staring at you while you eat them (Bex this was worse than yours still had all the guts in Michelle nearly cried!) Sapporo is a huuuuuuuuge city laid out very American style but I won:t bore you with a history lesson (did that to Michelle all of ...

Back again
Apr 6, 2006

... continuing to snow. The train left at 7.30 and took considerable longer than the last train going in the other direction took. Sapporo to Hakadake took 3 hours 50 minutes. The trains in Hokkaido were not up to scratch compared with the rest of Japan, they ...

Just Passing Through.
Jul 29, 2005

... our day of travel. Myself, and 55 other individuals, headed to Haneda airport to fly out to Chitose, which is actually southwest of Sapporo...If anyone plans on coming to see me you will also have to fly out of Haneda as there are no flights from Narita to ...

The lift
Apr 5, 2006

... time to get back and get tickets, and buy a shirt (last years as it was £20 who gonna know outside Japan, it was £60 for this years!) at the Sapporo dome. The ground was only half full not surprising I suppose as it was 40000 capacity. The plus side was ...

Cold weather, slides, and ski jumps
Jul 16, 2009 (8 photos)

We emerged from our miserably long train ride exhausted, groggy, unshowered, and...freezing?!  Apparently we were farther north than we had realized.  Our second problem involved a the time.  We stumbled out of the train station at around ...

Hokkaido Snow Festival
Feb 9, 2008 (94 photos)

... how much snow, cold, and central heating makes me feel right at home. The festival was held in Sapporo (the biggest city on the northern most island of Japan) and had all sorts of things to keep us entertained and amused in the freezing temps. Snow ...

Home Sweet Home
Nov 16, 2006 (19 photos)

Flew from YVR non-stop to Narita, Tokyo, 9 hours. Then after a 5 hour delay connected to Chitose, Sapporo, 1.5 hours. Took my first Japanese train from the airport into the city and was greated by a massive and confusing JR Station. Then it was off to the ...

Sapporo
Apr 4, 2006

... The Sapporo beer museum sounded like a good place to start. Sapporo beer was the first beer to be produced in Japan. The first factory was built in Sapporo in 1877. The brew master behind the beer was Mr Seibei Nakagawa who had studied the art of brewing ...

Sapporo -- Beer City?
Aug 22, 2007 (57 photos)

... , The North Face, etc...  This made so much sense given that Hokkaido is basically a "frontier" area of Japan.  Outside of Sapporo there isn't much beyond small towns, mountains, hot springs, and prairie.  Thus, this place is a backpacker's ...

First day in Sapporo
Aug 19, 2007 (29 photos)

... up many city blocks and is an oasis of green in a sea of concrete.  It is interesting to note that Sapporo is one of the few large cities in Japan that is built on a grid street pattern.  This gives Sapporo a sense of order that is lacking in ...

Sapporo's Snow
Feb 10, 2008 (34 photos)

... busy intersection. Following on from lunch we walked down to view the Susukino Ice Festival, a defacto part of the overall Sapporo Snow Festival. The ice sculptures were all very intricately carved and it was interesting to note that they were made up ...

Sightseeing with Mason
Dec 10, 2006 (8 photos)

Here's the most common sights and sounds o\in the city of Sapporo.

Sapporo...I Hardly Knew Ye.
Aug 28, 2005 (5 photos)

... uses the cardinal directions to specify your location (ie, North 4, West 2). The locus of the whole system is the "famous" Sapporo clock tower. Supposedly, you are provided with the "3rd best view in all of Japan" from its platform. Unfortunately, I did ...