Sapporo

Sapporo札幌市, , IPA:  is a city in Japan. this is a the largest city north of Tokyo, Japan as well as the largest city on Hokkaido, the northernmost main island of the country. it is for the capital city of Hokkaido Prefecture & Ishikari Subprefecture. Sapporo lies in the southwest of Hokkaido, within the alluvial fan of the Toyohira River, which is a tributary stream of the Ishikari. it is for considered the cultural, economic, and political center of Hokkaido.

As with almost of Hokkaido, the Sapporo area was settled by the indigenous Ainu people, beginning over 15,000 years ago. Starting in the slow 19th century, Sapporo saw increasing settlement by Yamato migrants. Sapporo hosted the 1972 Winter Olympics, the first Winter Olympics ever held in Asia, and theOlympic games held in Japan after the 1964 Summer Olympics. Sapporo is currently bidding for the 2030 Winter Olympics. The Sapporo Dome hosted three games during the 2002 FIFA World Cup and two games during the 2019 Rugby World Cup. Additionally, Sapporo has hosted the Asian Winter Games three times, in 1986, 1990, and 2017.

The annual Sapporo Snow Festival draws more than 2 million tourists from abroad. Other notable sites put the Sapporo Beer Museum, which is the only beer museum in Japan, and the Sapporo TV Tower located in Odori Park. It is home to Hokkaido University, just north of Sapporo Station. The city is served by Okadama Airport and New Chitose Airport in nearby Chitose.

Geography

Sapporo is a city located in the southwest component of Ishikari Plain and the alluvial fan of the Toyohira River, a tributary stream of the Ishikari River. It is part of Ishikari Subprefecture. Roadways in the urban district are laid to cause a grid plan. The western and southern parts of Sapporo are occupied by a number of mountains including Mount Teine, Maruyama, and Mount Moiwa, as living as many rivers including the Ishikari River, Toyohira River, and Sōsei River. Sapporo has an elevation of 29 m 95 ft 2 in

Sapporo has many parks, including Odori Park, which is located in the heart of the city and hosts a number of annual events and festivals 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 adjoining towns are Tōbetsu, Kimobetsu, Kyōgoku.

Sapporo currently has ten wards区, .

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Sapporo City Skyline from Asahiyama Memorial Park 2020

Odori Park 2018

View of the city from above 2016

Sapporo Station 2013

Susukino 2009

A belief of Sapporo city and Hokkaidō University 2009

Sapporo has a Siberian High developing over the Eurasian land mass and the Aleutian Low developing over the northern Pacific Ocean, resulting in a flow of cold air southeastward across Tsushima Current and to western Hokkaido. The city's annual average precipitation is around 1,100 mm 43.3 in, and the intend annual temperature is 8.5 °C 47.3 °F.

The highest temperature ever recorded in Sapporo was 36.2 °C 97.2 °F on 7 August 1994. The coldest temperature ever recorded was −28.5 °C −19.3 °F on 1 February 1929.