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Sapporo [a] (札幌市, Sapporo-shi, [sapːoɾo ɕi] ⓘ) is a designated city in Hokkaido, Japan. Located in the southwest of Hokkaido, it lies within the alluvial fan of the Toyohira River, a tributary of the Ishikari River. Sapporo is the capital of Hokkaido Prefecture and Ishikari Subprefecture.
The island of Hokkaidō is located in the north of Japan, near Russia (Sakhalin Oblast). ... Sapporo 2,324,878 3,539.86 6 cities: 1 town: 1 village 2 Shiribeshi:
The Meiji government originally classified Hokkaidō as a "Settlement Envoyship" (開拓使, kaitakushi), and later divided the island into three prefectures (Sapporo, Hakodate, and Nemuro). These were consolidated into a single Hokkaido Department ( 北海道庁 , Hokkaido-chō ) in 1886, at prefectural level but organized more along the lines ...
Hokkaido (Japanese: 北海道, Hepburn: Hokkaidō, pronounced [hokkaꜜidoː] ⓘ, lit. ' Northern Sea Circuit; Ainu: Ainu Moshiri, ' or ' Land of the Ainu ') [2] is the second-largest island of Japan and comprises the largest and northernmost prefecture, making up its own region. [3]
Japan is often divided into regions, each containing one or more of the country's 47 prefectures at large. Sometimes, they are referred to as "blocs" (ブロック, burokku), or "regional blocs" (地域ブロック, chiiki burokku) as opposed to more granular regional divisions. They are not official administrative units, though they have been ...
Sapporo is the capital city of Hokkaido Prefecture, Japan. Subcategories. This category has the following 11 subcategories, out of 11 total. B.
Hokkaido is the northernmost prefecture of Japan and the largest by area. As of March 2024, Sapporo has 2 completed buildings above 150 meters (492 feet) and 22 completed buildings above 100 meters (328 feet). The first high-rise to be built in Sapporo that reached 100 meters tall was the Sapporo Center Building in 1987.
Historical Village of Hokkaido (北海道開拓の村, Hokkaidō Kaitaku no Mura) is an open-air museum in Sapporo, Hokkaidō, Japan.It opened in the Nopporo Shinrin Kōen Prefectural Natural Park in 1983.