Sapporo City is located in the Central Hokkaido region of Hokkaido and belongs to the Ishikari Promotion Bureau.It is the location of the Ishikari Promotion Bureau as the location of the prefectural office, and because it is the location of the prefectural office, it is also called the “Dohto” and is the center of politics, economy, and culture.It is an ordinance-designated city with the largest population in Hokkaido (about 1.96 million people).
It is the northernmost ordinance-designated city in Japan, and has the fourth largest population after Yokohama, Osaka, and Nagoya, and is about 40% (about 36%) of the total population of Hokkaido.Occupy.It is a primate city in Hokkaido and forms the Sapporo metropolitan area.Ezo, where the Ainu people lived, was renamed Hokkaido in 1869 (Meiji 2), and the construction of Sapporo Honfu began with a pioneer.The first Tondenhei settled in 1875 (Meiji 8).The construction plan for Sapporo was conceived by Yoshitake Shima, a pioneer judge at the time, and the city planning based on Kyoto was based on the east side of the Sosei Bridge, with the Sosei River as the east-west axis and the north-south axis as Watashima-dori (currently Minami 1 Jo).(Dori) was advancing the division (currently the north-south axis is Odori Park).For this reason, in many of the central areas, the cityscape is in a grid pattern.
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