Sapporo — Sights
Snow on a grid of wide streets, and a bowl of miso ramen to come in from it.
- Odori Park — A 1.5 km strip of lawn through downtown that turns into a festival ground every season
- Sapporo TV Tower — A 90 m deck looking straight down the length of Odori Park
- Sapporo Clock Tower — A white wooden clock tower among office blocks, still chiming after 140+ years
- Mt Moiwa Ropeway & Summit — Ride up 531 m and the whole city's lights spread out below
- Susukino — Ramen, lamb grills and bars under the Nikka Whisky man
- Nijo Market — Go early for a bowl of sea urchin and salmon roe
- Sapporo Beer Museum — A pint of pioneer-era beer in a red-brick brewery
- Shiroi Koibito Park — The Shiroi Koibito cookie factory, mock-European and hands-on
- Former Hokkaido Government Office (Akarenga) — The red-brick government hall, reopened after five years of work
- Hokkaido Shrine (Hokkaido Jingu) — Hokkaido's main shrine at the end of a forest path
- Moerenuma Park — A whole park designed as one sculpture by Isamu Noguchi
- Okurayama Ski Jump Stadium — Sapporo from the top of an Olympic ski jump
- Jozankei Onsen — An hour from downtown: a hot-spring town in a river gorge
- Otaru Canal & Sakaimachi Street — A stone-warehouse canal under gas lamps, plus music boxes and glass
- Biei & Furano (Blue Pond, Farm Tomita) — A milky-blue pond and rolling flower hills, a full-day haul
- Makomanai Takino Cemetery (Hill of the Buddha) — A giant Buddha head peeking out of lavender
- Hokkaido University Sapporo Campus & Poplar Avenue — Ginkgo and poplar avenues, free to walk
- Hokkaido University Botanical Garden — A pioneer-era garden in the middle of the city
- Sapporo Maruyama Zoo — Polar bear tunnel and Ezo animals
- Maruyama Park & Hokkaido Shrine Stroll — Woods in the city for cherry blossoms and leaves
- Sapporo Factory — Old brewery bricks wrapped around a glass atrium
- Sapporo Dome Hiroba Observation Deck — Sky deck of the dome whose pitch slides out
- Sapporo Winter Sports Museum — Ski-jump simulators and Olympic history
- Hitsujigaoka Observation Hill (Clark statue) — Sheep on a hillside and the Clark statue
- Sapporo Art Park & Sculpture Garden — Sculptures scattered through a forest park