Sapporo

Sapporo is the famous city of northern Japanese island, Hokkaido. Sapporo is perhaps most known of it's famous product, Sapporo beer. Also, Sapporo has the famous yuki-matsuri, a snow festival every February.

The Japanese aboriginals ainu, named this city in ainu language to important river flowing through a plain. Although Sapporo is currently Japan's fifth largest city, in year of 1857, the city's population was exactly seven people. This makes Sapporo also a very young city.

Interesting detail about Sapporo is that the streets are lined in a grid, similarly than in New York.

Sapporo has famous beer museum, "Sapporo Factory" which is a famous youth hangout, Mount Moiwa, Susukino entertainment district and a chokolate factory Shiroi Koibito Park.

To get into Sapporo, one will usually use the New Chitose airport, which is the junction of transportation to Paris, Honolulu, Hongkong and Guam. You may also use trains: JR Tohoku Shinkansen- Jr Hakucho limited express - JR Hokuto limited express.

Sapporo is also near to Otaru, interesting city dedicated to glass art.

People in Sapporo are more calm and have different sense of humour and culture than people in Tokyo. This difference is often illustrated in movies by Shunji Iwai, such as Shigatsu Monogatari.

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