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Location Information:
Sapporo is the fifth-largest city in
Japan by population. It is the
capital of Hokkaidō Prefecture,
located in Ishikari Subprefecture,
and an ordinance-designated city of
Japan.
Sapporo is best known outside Japan
for hosting the 1972 Winter
Olympics, the first ever held in
Asia, and for the annual Yuki
Matsuri in the city, internationally
referred to as the Sapporo Snow
Festival, which draws more than 2
million tourists from around the
world. The city is also home to
Sapporo Brewery and the famous white
chocolate biscuits "White Lovers"
exclusively sold in Hokkaido.
Sapporo is a city located in the
southwest part of Ishikari Plain and
the alluvial fan of the Toyohira
River, a tributary stream of the
Ishikari River. Roadways in the
urban district are laid to make grid
plan road. The western and southern
part of Sapporo are occupied by a
number of mountains including Mount
Teine, Maruyama, and Mount Moiwa, as
well as a lot of rivers including
the Ishikari River, Toyohira River,
and Sousei River.
Sapporo has many parks, and among
them, Odori Park is located in the
heart of the City and is one of the
places that a number of annual
events and festivals are held
throughout the year. Moerenuma Park
is also one of the largest parks in
Sapporo, and was constructed under
the plan of Isamu Noguchi, a
Japanese-American artist and
landscape architect.
Neighbouring cities are Ishikari,
Ebetsu, Kitahiroshima, Eniwa,
Chitose, Otaru, Date, and towns are
Tōbetsu, Kimobetsu, Kyōgoku, and a
village is Akaigawa.
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