Sapporo

Cross Hotel Sapporo

Contemporary design with a public bath on the top floor facing the city lights. Between Odori and Susukino.

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JR Tower Hotel Nikko Sapporo

A tower connected directly to Sapporo Station, with an onsen and a panoramic view on floor 22. A real advantage in winter, when you do not want to go out into the cold.

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The Royal Park Canvas Sapporo Odori Park

An eco-friendly wooden hotel facing Odori Park, where the Snow Festival is held in February. The rooms facing the park are worth the extra.

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Hokkaido · Hell Valley

Noboribetsu Onsen

The well-known onsen town in Hokkaido, an hour and a half from Sapporo. Nine different types of water in one town, and Jigokudani, Hell Valley, which you can walk around for free. Ryokan from ¥20,000 per person including two meals. It also works as a day trip with a day-use bath.

¥20,000 · ≈ $127MapsSource

Jozankei · Families

Jozankei Tsuruga Resort Spa Mori no Uta

Jozankei Onsen is the town bath of Sapporo, about fifty minutes by car from the center, and much closer than Noboribetsu. A resort in the forest with a Japanese and Western buffet and open-air baths. From ¥21,000 per person per night including dinner and breakfast. It works as one night within a stay in Sapporo, without moving the whole route.

¥21,000 · ≈ $133MapsSource

Onsen · Sapporo, Teine

Teine Onsen Honoka: hot baths after the mountain

You finish the mountain at a large onsen in the neighborhood near Teine Station, with indoor and outdoor baths.

¥1,450 · ≈ $9MapsFull itinerary

Sapporo · Seafood

Sapporo Curb Market (Jogai Ichiba)

About 60 shops next to the central wholesale market, a seven-minute walk from Nijuyonken Station. Seventy to eighty percent of them sell fish. 6:00 to 15:00, and the large shops until 17:00, but a shop that runs out of stock closes at noon, so come in the morning. The restaurant area opens at 7:00. Larger and more local than Nijo Market in the center, and less touristy.

¥2,500 · ≈ $16MapsSource

Market · Sapporo

Nijo Market: kaisen-don with uni and crab

You start in a small market in the city center, with seafood stalls and breakfast restaurants: a rice bowl with uni, ikura and crab costs ¥2

¥3,000 · ≈ $19MapsFull itinerary

Sapporo · Wooden house

MORIHICO. main store, Maruyama

A wooden house about seventy years old next to the forest of Hokkaido Shrine, which the artist Ichikawa renovated over three years and opened as a cafe in 1996. From here grew a chain of 14 branches in Sapporo and Asahikawa, each with its own concept, but this house is the origin. Beans roasted in-house and coffee brewed cup by cup. 9:00 to 20:00 with last order at 19:00, open all year except the New Year holiday. Four minutes from Maruyama Koen Station.

¥800 · ≈ $5MapsSource

Break · Sapporo

Shiroi Koibito Park: the cookie factory with the courtyard

The factory of the 'White Lover' cookie (white chocolate between two cookies, the Hokkaido souvenir), in a building that looks like a Europe

¥800 · ≈ $5MapsFull itinerary

Central Sapporo · Free

Odori Park

A park 100 meters wide and 1.5 km long that cuts through the center of Sapporo: fountains, grilled corn in summer (¥400), and in February the ice sculptures of the Snow Festival. Free.

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✓ Price checked September 2026

Central Sapporo · Viewpoint

Sapporo TV Tower

A tower at the eastern end of Odori Park with an observation deck at 90 meters, from which you see the whole length of the park. ¥1,200 since January 2026. During the Snow Festival this is the angle from which all the sculptures are photographed in a row.

¥1,200 · ≈ $8MapsSourceTickets on Klook

✓ Price checked September 2026

Central Sapporo · Historic building

Sapporo Clock Tower

A wooden clock tower from 1878, the symbol of the city, which is considered one of the most disappointing attractions in Japan because it is small and surrounded by buildings. ¥200 for the display inside. Three minutes from the outside are enough, and that is fine.

¥200 · ≈ $1MapsSource

✓ Price checked September 2026