Sapporo Travel Guide – What to Do in Sapporo. Winter Travel Tips.

Sapporo is a northern city of Japan in Hokkaido. In this video, this is my vlog of winter wonderland of Sapporo and show you what to do in Sapporo when you visit, and special foods from Sapporo. You will also find out how to get from New Chitose Airport to Sapporo city center.

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Okido is a northern island of Japan abundant in natural beauty for Four Seasons and foods from a large farmland and Northern ocean make it a popular travel destination for both Japanese and international tourist and the capital of hokido is saporo saporo is a city 2 million people live and a center of

Economy and the half of transportations in Hokkaido the city is known for heavy snow gets during the winter season and saport hosted Olympic game in 1972 you can also access to Major skill results such as l n and huro in a few hours from saporo during your stay in

Saporo you can enjoy this city with Beau scenery and hoods that are brought from land and ocean of Hokkaido being in the convenience of the big city just like Tokyo today I’d like to introduce you to my travel in saporo in snowy winter Time The most common way to fly to saporo is taking flight to New chto International Airport which is located 45 km 27 M southeast of saporo the flight between Tokyo and saporo is one of the busiest route in the world and there are frequent flight by Japan’s two major

Flag carriers and air do sky mark from Han airport and other lccs from n airport new airport also had Direct fights from other parts of Japan such as Osaka and Goa if you are flying into from Asian countries there are also Daily flights from most of the major

Asian cities in the winter time sap also have a small airport which is much closer to the city center called okadama airport but the flight you can take from there is limited to flights to other cities in Hokkaido and some more if you prefer trains you can also enter support

By trains in this case you can take to H hokido shans to Shin hakodate hokto station near city of hakodate and take limited called hokto the BL train sha ra hasn’t reached support yet so it takes about 8 hours from Tokyo as of today the train fair in regular class is a little

Less than 30,000 yen without any discount you can consider the raid pass too j e South Hokkaido ra pass is 35,000 Yen and covering the areas between Tokyo and saporo including the lion Shas and limited Express so if you are going run trip by train and drop by different

Parts of South Hokkaido and to HW area it’s a great path once you arrive nto airport there are mainly two ways to get to the sa City Center by public transportations Airport bus is operated by two companies HTO Co and CH bus and each of them has different time table so

I was a little bit confused fast but four to five buses are running power no combined you cannot make reservation for this route so you can proceed to the countdown the arrival floor and get a ticket for your bus you can use great card at the counter you can also skip

The counter and proceed to the bus but the payment method is different depends on the bus the bus operated by two or C you can use I card such as Su but uh bu operated by HTO you can use Visa touch and other touch functions of a crate

Card instead of IC card either way you touch twice when you get on and get off The Bu stop is located right behind the counter outside the price is 1,300 yen to support City Center and it takes about 70 minutes to susino and 80 minutes to sapo station if your hotel is

Near the bus stop it’s a good idea to take the bus from the airport J’s train called rapid Airport takes you from light under the airport Tam 2 SAO station in about 40 minutes this rapid airport is running every 10 to 12 minutes and it’s 1,150 yen Oneway you can use IC from other cities such as sua or pasmo in Tokyo and ikoka from Osaka but if you run Hokkaido and don’t have one yet you can get icy C of jail Hokkaido which is called kitaka and you can use kitaka in other major cities in

Japan too but icy Card is only used around saporo so when you do EXT ensive travel in Hokkaido area get a ticket or any Rail Pass such as jail Hokkaido rail pass this time I arrived by airplane from Tokyo and took rapid airport train to saporo city center the airport and

Saporo have distance so the weather can be different especially in winter time this day there was a storm coming and as the train approached to sapo station Crow start to cast over the train this car number four is uh used seat and it’s a reserving

Seat this is a station it’s like a hub for many different trains going across part The Limited Express let’s get out of the station once and see outside this is sa poo station house entrance and this side we’ll go continue to the city center of sapo now I arrive at sapo station let’s

Head to the hotel and drop luggage first so I like to take Subway number from here too station for my hotel sapo has full choice of hotels especially it has a lots of business hotels to premium business hotels there are some major Japanese band hotels such

As KO Plaza Prince Hotel and J Tower hotel connected to the J station somehow sapo hasn’t had many major International brand hotels especially luxury one at this point but after 2025 marot InterContinental and hayat is going to open in saporo there are so many choices of clean and convenient business hotels to

Mid-range hotels in saporo I arrived holiday in susino this time I chose holiday in in susino area for the first night I sit here with the points I had but even with paying with cash it was about 6,500 y or so per night with breakfast which is about $45 us nothing

Special no public bus no kind of new building and no amazing breakfast maybe but it’s something really czy uh being kind Big Brand Hotel to clean thisable sleepers so there aren’t many Channel but you can watch CNN on English too there a vending machine for the regular

Drink and beer and some alcohol drinks it’s the price is actually not that high the hotel was close to sukino station and it was very convenient to go out to eat and walk around the town when you search hotels in saporo you see most of the hotels are located in the area from

Sap poo station to Nakajima park each area has different convenience sa poo station is where the train to other parts of Hokkaido leaves and you also have direct access to the airport so when you arrive with big suitcases or have plans to go other parts of Hokkaido

It might be a good place to stay if you like quiet and clean area this around the oor street and between SAO station has lots of hotels it’s more more like an office area so it’s quiet environment the Merit of odor area is you can take similar Subways so it’s convenient when

You travel to other parts of saporo by Subways too if you like to hang around at night and like to stay closer to other crowd sukino is a good area to stay you can walk out of your hotel and find lots of places to eat quickly the

Only thing is it’s also like a night town so you see those stores Bard over red right District on the back street but no matter where you choose it’s not that far from the other areas saporo station to susino is actually walking distance and it’s connected with a big

Underground Street you can either walk or take Subways easily between these areas so it might not that big matter which area to stay as long as you are in the area if you tring during the snow season and using the public transportations you may want to make

Sure to make get the hotel near the train station or Subways or underground entrance so it’s a little difficult to carry suitcases on this kind of Street when it’s snowing winter it’s difficult to carry suitcases on snow if the snow is deep it’s just difficult but

If snow is start to M it can be really wet so if you are staying in support J winter time it might help to get a hotel near the station or near the entrance to the underground the holiday in ice St was one or 2 minutes from susino station so it was

Convenient next day was even worse storm so I chose to stay at hotel Gracy in the last minute hotel gracery sapo is located right in front of the station and it’s connected directly to the underground mall I booked a night before and it was about 7,500 Y which is about

52 with CLI exchange rate a night with breakfast this is a hotel gra saport single room I said that two different places this time to find out the feeling of staying at different areas but I really don’t recommend to change hotels often as a member of frequent forget of

Belongings during travel it takes time just to make sure nothing is left in the room once you dropped your luggage it’s time to explore saporo in saporo the major transportation method in the city is this Subway there are three lines nuk line toai line and Toho line Subway runs

Every 6 to 7 Minutes in the daytime how you get on subway is the same as other parts of Japan if you purchase your ticket you can insert the ticket at the gate pick the ticket and you insert again at the destination station if you

Use icy car such as sua Oraka you can touch when enter the station gate and when you leave the station gate all stations are made barrier free and equipped with elevator from the ground to the platform Support also has a Trum that runs like Loop in case you take Trum

That price is flat rate of 200 y you get on the trun from behind and pay when you get off from the front right next to the driver you can use icy car too same for the bus but in case you take bus with cash you take a small

Paper ticket when you get on this is to prove where you go on the bus I recommend you to get IC card and keep it charged for easy process of using transportation in major cities in Japan when it comes to the side seeing of saporo many of the attractions of

Saporo are various different styles of observation decks in the City or surrounding areas and western style historical buildings parks and museums and exhibitions related to the history of Hokkaido some of them are in the walking distance in the city center and many attractions are in the surrounding area

That you can access by Subways trums or bus some of them are in the same direction and some of them are in the other side of the city so it might help to do some planning to get down the city effectively if you are visiting during

Winter time you might also want to be ready that some attractions are closed during my stay unfortunately many popular attractions such as ropeways and lift were closed due to the strong wind okay maybe I should the other side Hokkaido is about the history of the new development of the land and lots of

Technology from the United States were used for agriculture and farming between the TV Tower and saport station there’s a saporo clock tower the clock tower used to be a building of sapo agricultural College which is a former form of Cento University so this is support Clock Tower

The one of the most popular tourist attraction it’s also said it’s also a disappointing attraction that basically this is it I remember I came here when I was a elementary school and kid I thought it’s just nice but uh I don’t remember actually what I thought we the

Kit but I think it’s actually beautiful in Winter it has lots of snow and in summer I’m sure it has lots of nice green and so beautiful as people move to Hokkaido and garment develops Ido in the 19th century Hokkaido put importance on farming to produce Dair products

Agriculture fishing and beer brewery as industry to help the development of Hokkaido support agricultural College was established with the help of Faculty members from United States and in late 19th century the clock tower was built and this clock was made in New York for this clock tower and started to ring the

Standard time of sapor one of the faculty member clar became somehow famous in Japan and the word he left be gentleman and boys be ambitious became the iconic word showing the frontier Spirit of H door it seems most of the tourists left without entering inside but there’s a small exhibition space

That you can learn about the history of this clock tower and saporo the entry fee was y and 1,80 Yen if you go visit TV tower another western style building that Enlighten the city of saporo is hokkaido’s government building this is hokkaido’s Gant building it’s nice red brick

Building but actually it’s ding it’s under inovation things all the B like ra the roof used to stop or something but they have To sa TV tower is a symbol of saporo that was built in 1957 you can go up to the observation deck by the elevator just me the elevator and it’s so beautiful i i g good time even though the rise of the surrounding buildings and it’s not like

You can see everything in saporo the view of oori Park and seeing ski jump facility in the distance makes you feel that you came to the northern capital of saporo for the observatory you can also check JL Towers Observatory connected to J Towers in sapo station sapo is also

Surrounded by mountains and you can see the dynamic view of sapo from mountains too two other famous spots to S Sao is moama that you can go upway and AMA which has a ski jump facility which is used in the Olympic game you can go up there by lift

Unfortunately both of them are closed this time I arrived Mar Co station and it seems Hokkaido jingle is here so maybe in it 3 or 21 so this is mar bus you go to OK m is a bus leaving from here this is also a shine light

If you are looking for walking in the nature of Hokkaido you can visit marama Park a park located in the west of Sao City Center and there’s the marama zoo and Hokkaido jingu Shrine there are lots of parks and the saporo but this marama park has easy access from subway station

For the Park mo Numa Park is also a popular Park which you can see the Wide Open Spaces of Hokkaido if there’s a snow like this there’s no problem but if this kind of place like looks shiny and brown can really sleep so please be careful when you walk when you walk in

Sapo definitely it’s a must have to have the glove and the scarf and I got this kind of cap there’s also zoo in this park but I’m kind of debating how far is it in this snow I got hok banana milk coffee it’s say 0.4 de so it’s not that cold but it

Feels much colder than how it looks in the numers in the evening a good place to go is to skino sukino is one of the commercial center of saporo and more known as an entertainment and night life District the board of the whiskey brand born in hokido Nika is the symbol of the

Suino traffic light there are lots of dining auctions here so it’s a place you visit at least once during your stay in Sao very D so you do like this comes of C it doesn’t look that one reason to visit saporo is the hood of Hokkaido Hokkaido is like brand for

Japanese people any areas can be a brand in Japan but Hokkaido is the one you see the most Hokkaido is a land of Agriculture farming for daily products and surrounded by Northern ocean with lots of seafood now that you are in Hokkaido is the important factor of sapo

Travel in the cold weather of saporo something I really wanted to try is a bow of sap lamen when you like to try sap lamen there is a perfect spot in susino area called Len Yoko so in this Len Yoko 17 or 18 L shops here in L Yoko

It’s like only one minute from traffic right so it’s very convenient come place to come and you can choose your favorite Ramen there are many ramen shops in this small area and you can choose from the favorite Ramen store I chose this store called Haruka located by the entrance of

The lamen Yoko there are different opinions about what the sa lamen is and there no clear one definition but to me the image of saple ramen is a dark M Ramen with butter and corn on it it was very good and warming up somehow most of the international tourists were ordering

Spicy Mr Ramen so that might be more trending menu in case you visit Ramen Shop or seafood ball shop many store had a sign cash only so you might want to make sure to carry some cash of Japanese y they have such a City Style next day as I didn’t have

Breakfast at holiday in I walked to n market so this is a Nel Market kind of Morning Market a little Morning Market in city of sapoto so there a bigger one in outside the city but this one’s much easier to visit lots of kind of graphic which we

Don’t see much in Japan maybe it’s like a dangerous dangerous Market I don’t so this is the Nel market look like it’s 9:00 a.m. so probably it’s a busy time already finished and and some STS closed already let’s see any kind of seafood shop that you can purchase and also you can

Eat this is a main street to lots of people it’s a small Market in the middle of the city that you see some seafood shops and restaurants that you can eat seafood boat called kaisendon the price standard of seafood Bo is almost not existing so it’s

Difficult to find a place to eat but I visited this one store in front of the N Market I ordered 1,700 small bowl of the seafood with Ika scallops and salmon it came with a cup of the soup with lots of shrimps I asked if I can

Eat shrimp but he said you can eat if you want but but bite very well and usually nobody eat it I saw Travelers are ordering very expensive uni ball which is a c arching in English the bow was more than 5,000 yen which is like $35 us when I visit hokkaido’s Countryside

In May I was told by a short person that uni ball is starts only from June so mostly uni seon is in summer and you probably get a better quality if you beat Hokkaido in summer the seafood ball is like a mystery world and price can be

Sky loated so it might be good to enjoy exploring the different shops and find your favorite balls I just ate at that restaurant behind here here in front of the newor market it was 1,700 for small ball and I think for looking at this locations maybe it’s

Not that bad I think it’s the taste is good and another thing you might want to get in Japan is this kind of heating part this is the one you just open up the pocket and uh it’s heat up for about 12 hours and this is almost a must item

When you come to sapo and you can get anywhere in like a drug store for really reasonable price think so in sapo something you don’t might want to have it’s also a cap it’s the snow is kind of accumulating on my head and it’s very cold it’s I need a and also very

Important to cover your ears cuz it’s very cold but actually sea food is one of the most difficult thing to find a good one and price can be no limit in the T spots or a big city like saporo so I thought I’m going to seek the place

That local people go I decid to go to the local chain Coit Park is also from this station it was 3 minutes walk from the last toop of toai line Mio zaa station so it’s easy to access to even for tourists and I did see some forign tourists here I arrived miosa

Station so let’s go to the this look like a very popular place I hope there won’t be too long Lin it’s like a nice suburb of sa area this one very close there are three major H chains and among them n hanamaru and toon already have branch in Tokyo so I chose one

Called Nagoya in ham area many of the menu in today’s recommendation was from other parts of Japan like kushu I was tempted but I came from Tokyo all the way so I only ordered something from Hokkaido she was good and fun okay it wasn’t something amazing like I lost

Wordss but it was definitely good quality it was also good find that I get similar quality at those hokido change restaurant in Tokyo for almost the same price if you have a big budget there are tons of places to go but the store was easy going for going by myself and I

Think it’s good for a big group or a family with children too if you are staying long in sapo it might be fun to try three different s chain restaurants from Hokkaido the last one I tried is jingis scan which is like a mton barbecue there are many shops around sukino and

Something easy to go in and popular is Saia Garden so windy and very nice atmosphere so this is a garden that way you can eat Jing so I have a reservation 430 so let’s see what the jingis G support to special for this so it’s up by 5:30 and Museum shop close

7:30 so it looks like there’s a museum and you can try some sample of beer that are crafted Here and restaurant in another building and there are some Museum shop of Sao beer this beautiful building is Museum and you can also try the beer of Sao beer next to the museum building there’s a horse you can eat jingis scan in the main H called Castle H you

Can e or you can eat buffet looking at the big Brewery machine this is the Jing come all you can eat buffet and so first this vegetable and some meat comes this is a beer called five star this the original beer of Tapo beer and you can only have in this Tapo beer

Garden jingis is a m barbecue that you cook on the table m is not something L eaten across Japan but somehow in okido this is a popular local food The Taste was good just like barbecue and nothing special flavor of brown it’s one of the top CH

Spots in saporo so it was easy to go in but I felt a bit out of place being myself so it might be fun place to come with friends or family in a big group and enjoy the atmosphere if you ask for more taste it might be better to go the authentic

Small restaurant in skino area because real good R is mindblowing it was really fun experience on the way back from sapor beia garden there is a shadow bus but I decided to take J train and it was a big mistake because the train wasn’t running

Often and it was delayed about 10 to 15 minutes four station one station next to the sa and from here you can walk to the Sao beer garden too obviously it was better to take the shallow bus from the beer garden but somehow the time I was

Waiting at this platform is the most memorable moment of this supp trip if you are visiting sa in Winter there are similar things you might want to pay attention if it’s not too late in Winter sapo can be very cold with the wind it can be colder than how it looks on the

Temperature as I mentioned in the hotel section it’s better to get hotels near the station or underground mall the underground is continuing from supp Station to all the way to suino station if you see the Google Map and Go closer you can see the underground in

The Le and also uh grab is a must have item it’s really difficult to walk without it and my hand will be freezing without it so it’s better to have some kind of GRA that you can touch your smartphone in case you take hold offer I hope I could show you how the

Support will be like during the winter time it was a very enjoyable trip that I could see lots of snow thank you for watching have a great trip to Japan how about great week until the next video