[2026 year edition] the tourist attraction 8 election recommended in winter in Sapporo

In winter Sapporo, the pleasure, fully. 8 of Activity which feels snow by the whole body and event the season when it snows selected tourist attraction of the recommendation I'd like to hold carefully. Even if it's cold weather, when wearing tightly, it's OK. Won't you go out to enjoy beautiful scenery and nature fully?

The light which flashes in a town is romantic exceptionally.

The fantastic scenery wrapped in multicolored light
The fantastic scenery wrapped in multicolored light

The "Sapporo white illuminations" which start from the end of ordinary year November. During a period, the center of Sapporo is colored by illuminations. The atmosphere different respectively can enjoy the meeting place divided into more than one points such as Odori Park and a station square of Sapporo Station, and it's also recommended to enjoy oneself concerning each meeting place.
The symbol art object designed every theme up to 5-Chome from 1-chome flashes at Odori meeting place.

A special sense shops in enough shopping area.

A chest seems to throb with space like a foreign market unconsciously.
A chest seems to throb with space like a foreign market unconsciously.

It's conventional that whole time frame of Sapporo white illuminations "Munich Christmas city in Sapporo" is also held at the same time at Odori 2-Chome meeting place. It's derived from Sapporo's being a sister city in Germany Munich that a German traditional annual event "Christmas city" is performed in Sapporo.
A mug of limitation and original products of a masking tape are also a basic as a gift of commemoration, and it's said that there are a lot of local people looking forward to this event every year, too.

▼ Munich Christmas city in Sapporo
URL:https://www.sapporo.travel/white-illumination/event/munich/
Time frame: 2025 year November 21 (Fri)-December 25 (Thu)11:00-21:00
A meeting place: Odori Park (2-Chome, Odorinishi, Chuo-ku, Sapporo-shi)
Inquiry: 011-206-6780

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Illuminations at the Sapporo-shi center are a date spot of this time basic. Illumination is brilliant in white snow, and photograph shine is also securely.

Sapporo white illuminations
  • The addressOdori meeting place (Odorinishi, Chuo-ku, Sapporo-shi, Hokkaido 1-chome-6-Chome)
    Street near the train station meeting place (4 articles of north-4 articles of south)
    Minami-1jo-dori meeting place (an article of south, Nishi 1-chome-3-Chome)
    Sapporo-shi north 3 article square meeting place ( (4-Chome of north 2 article west and 4-Chome of north 3 article west))
    Sapporo Station south exit station square meeting place (3-Chome of north 5 article west) MAP
  • Business hours2025 year November 21 (Fri)-March 14 (Sat)16:30-22:00 in 2026
    ※ It's different depending on meeting places. It's subject to confirmation in HP.
  • TEL080-5830-6001 (Sapporo white executive committee of illuminations)
    One besides event time frame, 011-281-6400 (general corporate judicial person Sapporo tourist association))
  • ParkingI don't have that.

The statue of snow which is so big that I look up, indeed, highlights

The 71st time UPOPOI (folk symbiosis symbolic space),Ⓒ HTB
The 71st time UPOPOI (folk symbiosis symbolic space) ⒸHTB

When saying winter Sapporo, there should be a lot of people who visit the "Sapporo snow festival" learned about pleasantly nationwide, too. The center of Sapporo-shi will be a main stadium, and the whole town doesn't discount whole period for about 1 week to the coldness, and I enliven.
One of highlights of an event is a big statue of snow in the Odori meeting place where a snow festival is also a symbol. Even if I go, how many times should there be surprise though it's huge, because modeling which makes closely and is crowded is different in the design every year? The character fashionable the year and the topical personality often appear on a citizen statue of snow, and the form of the person who takes a ceremonial picture doesn't cease in front of the popular statue of snow.

In all except for Odori Park, the pleasure is much.

Sapporo snow festival (Odori meeting place)
Sapporo snow festival (Odori meeting place)

Other curling Experience how to enjoy oneself a snow festival is various by a meeting place, and which are a statue of snow and a projection mapping at Odori meeting place. It can be satisfied with the world of a fantastic ice image at a meeting place of Japanese pampas grass, at a TSUDOMU meeting place, a tube slider and an attraction of a snow raft, Experience, can, to the extent it's difficult for everything to go around in one day. Adult and a child are fact guaranteeing which can be enjoyed.

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The event I devised such as snow park golf and each stage event is held at a meeting place. Such as taking a break at a store around here if it becomes cold, please be careful so that it isn't also forgot to heat up a body.

Sapporo snow festival
  • The addressOdori meeting place (Odorinishi, Chuo-ku, Sapporo-shi, Hokkaido 1-chome-11-Chome of west)
    Meeting place of Japanese pampas grass (southern 4 article expert-southern 7 article expert)
    TSUDOMU meeting place (885-1, Sakaemachi, Higashi-ku, Sapporo-shi, Hokkaido) MAP
  • Business hours2026 year February 4 (Wed)-11 day (Wednesday . national holiday)
  • ParkingI don't have that.

The ski area where Direction is outstanding from the Sapporo center

You can get a bird's-eye view of the night view of Sapporo by a night game.
You can get a bird's-eye view of the night view of Sapporo by a night game.

Good of Direction is charm for "Sapporo Moiwayama ski area" with about 30 minutes by car from Sapporo Station. They're also able to go sightseeing in the daytime and spend actively with a night game from the evening because traveling time from the center is short. Rental of the ski equipment and a skiwear is also enriched. The night view which is seen in the air by which winter became clear can get a bird's-eye view of streets in Sapporo, and very beautifully, would become a good memory of travel.
If I'd like to enjoy the night view, "rabbit plain (DAIRA) course" is recommended to an expert. Besides even a beginner can also enjoy the upper part of "dynamic course", and it's popular.

The slope kids can practice surely

The program such as a one-shot lesson and a group lesson in a few days is various.
The program such as a one-shot lesson and a group lesson in a few days is various.

The environment that even a beginner, the person who skis after a long time and a small child can slip surely is complete, and family's guest is enjoying ski in particular during a period of the winter holidays.
It's a wonderful point that myself can choose a favorite lesson from a rich program because there are no ski schools of direct management, but I cooperate with various ski schools and clubs. Please confirm the details of a school in HP.

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A fashionable cafe is here and there near the ski area. How about having time slowly in before and after skiing and the waiting time?

Sapporo Moiwayama ski area
  • The address1991, Moiwashita, Minami-ku, Sapporo-shi, Hokkaido MAP
  • DirectionIt's a car more than Sapporo Station, about 30 minutes
  • Business hours2025 year December 20 (Sat)-March 15 (Sun) in 2026
  • AdmissionLift ticket (1-day ticket): Adult (more than 16 years old), 7000 yen and a senior (more than 65 years old), 6000 yen and a junior (more than 4 years old, less than 16 years old), 5000 yen
    Night game (16-21:00): 3000 yen
    Rental: A ski set of 7500 yen-and a wear set of 13,500 yen-
  • TEL050-3662-8715
  • ParkingFree

It's satisfied with the beautiful scenery while being flooded in Outdoor hot spring.

Even if it's a little crowded, open Outdoor hot spring isn't interested.
Even if it's a little crowded, open Outdoor hot spring isn't interested.

One-day visit hot spring where it's in a suburb for about 20 minutes by car from Sapporo Station. The unusual spot which can be satisfied with hot spring of source 100% and the purity 100% which isn't doing total Ka warm water addition. It's the very popular hot-spring quality even between hot spring lover by the Sodium Calcium Hydrogen Carbonate and the Chloride spring called a common name "beauty's hot water".
In Outdoor hot spring, a president, the chair rock by which one can carry a rock more than Yotei-zan and sit exactly and the way of being particular that I slept and arranged hot water as you sprawled. You can relax and have time to your heart's content while looking at the mountains which ranges far.

The curry which is also famous at localness is hitsushoku.

There are a lot of guests looking forward to curry like hot spring, too.
There are a lot of guests looking forward to curry like hot spring, too.

And it's the Indian curry which can be tasted at the cafeteria in Property that it has a good reputation like hot spring. I say that about tens of kinds of spice ordered from foreign countries is devised in the taste which is used real curry and suits the Japanese taste.
Nepali's chef has completed a nan of local specialty especially using a local iron pot, the gusto to which MOTCHIRI and the soft food texture give themselves up. The pain of the curry can choose something you like from 5 stages, so the person who doesn't like anything spicy is carefree, too.

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Outdoor hot spring circled by the mountains can taste feeling of opening fully more than hot spring in a neighborhood. During the landscape of the each season, how about refreshing oneself free from all cares?

Hohei-kyo hot spring
  • The address608-2, Jozankei, Minami-ku, Sapporo-shi, Hokkaido MAP
  • DirectionIt's a car from JR Sapporo Station, about 20 minutes
  • Business hoursBathing available hours 10:00-22:30 (last reception 21:45)
    Restaurant business hours Indian food 11:00-21:00L.O. and Japanese food 11:00-14:00/17:00-20:00L.O.
  • AdmissionA nyuuizumiryou adult of 1300 yen and a child of 600 yen
  • TEL011-598-2410
  • ParkingFree

Play with snow spot popular with local people a little way from a downtown, too

Sleigh play seems to rise at a wide and long slope (c,︎ MOERE marsh park).
Sleigh play seems to rise at a wide and long slope (c ︎MOERE marsh park).

"MOERE marsh park" fits the person who would like to enjoy play with snow more easily than ski and a snowboard. I'm also bustling with many people in a winter mainly by a family by the location it's also easy to go to which in time cold for the distance between about 30 minutes and winter by car from the center of Sapporo.
When you'd like to take a rest, please drop in at "pyramid of" glass next to Parking. Equipment in the other Nursing Room able to warm up and enjoy shopping by a shop is also enriched.

The silver world which is spread in the front page where I can't think in Sapporo-shi

Adult  and a child seem to get rapturous in play with snow (c,︎ MOERE marsh park).
Adult and a child seem to get rapturous in play with snow (c ︎MOERE marsh park).

It's different from a good park, sleigh slipping at a MOERE marsh park is force perfection. There are a gentle part and a steep part in Mt. MOERE of height 52m, and when choosing a slid part, sleigh slipping of the long distance can be enjoyed fully from a child to an adult. There is a charge and a sleigh is borrowed, so it isn't all right to have a play with snow tool. It's also possible to rent a snow shoe, the ski I walk and boots respectively.
There are also no spots which can do sleigh play at the long inclination to here in the city easily. Please visit by the clothes by which an adult can play with snow, too by all means.

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The blue sky seen through a pyramid of glass is very beautiful on the day which cleared up. It's also a nice place to visit art as an enjoyed winter walk.

MOERE marsh park
  • The addressHigashi-ku, Sapporo-shi, Hokkaido MOERE marsh park 1-1 MAP
  • DirectionIt's a car from JR Sapporo Station, about 30 minutes
  • Business hours7:00-22:00 (It's different depending on each Property in the park.)
  • Days closedI don't have that (There is days closed in each Property in the park.)
  • TEL011-790-1231
  • ParkingFree
  • MemoWinter sports rental of articles
    Time frame: The middle ten days) close down on※ Monday in (Tue)-March on January 6, 2026 (in case of a holiday, Tuesday).
    Time :10:00-16:00 (the last return time)
    Rent place: Pyramid 1F of glass A shop ※ ID Card is shown.

The rich play with snow program which isn't only Clark doctoral image

A Experience charge is free respectively in Activity which can be chosen.
A Experience charge is free respectively in Activity which can be chosen.

The "Hitsujigaoka snow park" where Dr. Clark's image is held in winter at famous "Sapporo Hitsujigaoka Observatory" is an event of ordinary year popularity. Though I'm in Sapporo-shi, it's possible to enjoy play with snow at a vast and snow-white snowfield, a tube slip, the ski I walk and Activity such as mini making a snowman and a snow strike rider (2-5 year old limitation), Experience, can.
For one people and a tube for two are prepared for a tube slip, a small child, with adult , Experience, can, so, I'm very relieved.

▼ Hitsujigaoka snow park
URL:https://www.hitsujigaoka.jp/snowpark/? lang=ja#googtrans(ja|ja)
Date: 2026 year January 9 (Fri)-March 8 (Sun)10:00-15:00
The charge: It's small 1000 yen for an adult, a* junior high school student of 500 yen and preschooler no charge

After playing much, it'll become warm by a this place gourmet in Hokkaido.

Popular "lamb Grilled Mutton Dish Set Meal" (2300 yen)
Popular "lamb Grilled Mutton Dish Set Meal" (2300 yen)

To heat up the body which got cold by play with snow, Restaurant "Hitsujigaoka rest house". The menu which can taste Grilled Mutton Dish of Hokkaido local specialty is even richly in the wide store. A baking stand of Grilled Mutton Dish exclusive use is installed in each table, and good of the feeling which can have a meal slowly is also attractive while seeing grand nature outside the window.
Rice, miso soup and vegetables are also included, and the "lamb Grilled Mutton Dish Set Meal" with a little chuck of a habit is very popular. Please also taste original special bill sagging of meat and the store pride with the outstanding chemistry by all means.

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Admission is necessary, but a Experience charge and the one by which it doesn't require a rental fee are very attractive in each Activity. Soba Noodles also has Sapporo Dome and you can enjoy yourself throughout the day in this area.

Sapporo Hitsujigaoka Observatory
  • The addressHitsujigaoka, Toyohira-ku, Sapporo-shi, Hokkaido, 1st area MAP
  • DirectionEmbussment and "Hitsujigaoka Observatory" get off the subway Fukuzumi Station, immediately.
  • Business hoursObservatory 10-May 9:00-17:00 and 6-September 9:00-18:00 (for the last entrance, even before 15 minutes).
    Hitsujigaoka rest house 5-September 11:00-16:00 and 10-April 11:00-15:00 (L.O. closes, before 30 minutes)
  • AdmissionGeneral adult of 1000 yen and small size, a* junior high school student of 500 yen and preschooler no charge
  • TEL011-851-3080
  • ParkingFree

Please taste the fantastic view the winter.

The photo spot for which the art object lit up colorfully is ideal
The photo spot for which the art object lit up colorfully is ideal

Festival of the ice performed every year in Chitose-shi for about 1 hour by car in Sapporo-shi. Such as using a lake of "Shikotsu-ko Lake" where Japan in Chitose-shi takes pride in its eminent clarity, "Chitose Shikotsu-ko Lake kooritou (I ask about SHIKOTSUKO hail.) festival" is an event using the freezing climate of Shikotsu-ko Lake.
I puffed a lake into bones by a sprinkler and was made, big, small, various, an art object of ice is brilliant in natural blue at noon, and is lit up by multicolored light in the evening, and the fantastic world is produced.

Snow Activity enjoyed at another meeting place

A dynamic attraction winter appears.
A dynamic attraction winter appears.

A winter leisure spot in Chitose "north and snow Rand in Chitose" is open as another meeting place. Shikotsu-ko Lake kooritou festival is another meeting place, but about 15 minutes and Direction are very convenient by car from about 35 minutes and new Chitose Airport by JR from the Sapporo center. They're a tube slider, a four-wheel baggy and snowfall such as very popular snorer fitting and a mini snowmobile and Activity (part item payment required) can enjoy itself.
The exhilaration which runs through the aerial inside where winter was clear doesn't ask about the age and is fact guaranteeing to which I give myself up.

▼ NORTH snow Rand in Chitose
URL:https://www.northsnowland.com/
An address: Hokkaido Chitose Rankoshi 26
A period: 2025 year December 30 (Tue)-March 5 (Thu) in 2026
Admission: 500 yen for a schoolchild of students over junior high school of 800 yen is free less than 5 years old With※ optional rates of other ones.
Telephone: 0123-27-2121

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The art object of the ice lit up in the evening at lakeside in Shikotsu-ko Lake is worth a glance, but beauty also stands out also the ice seen under the blue sky of noon. A person with time go to both of noon and night, please.

Chitose and Shikotsu-ko Lake kooritou (I ask about SHIKOTSUKO hail.) are deified, NORTH snow Rand in Chitose
  • The addressChitose-shi, Hokkaido Shikotsu-ko Lake hot spring MAP
  • Business hours2026 year January 31 (Sat)-February 23 (Monday . national holiday) 10: 00-20:00
    Light up 16:30-20:00
  • AdmissionStudents over junior high school of 1000 yen (no charge below the elementary students)
  • TEL0123-23-8288 (Shikotsu-ko Lake festival executive committee)

It's OK empty-handed and you can ask to welcome and send off from the center, and convenient.

It's warm on the ice in the tent.
It's warm on the ice in the tent.

One and pond smelt fishing of the winter pleasure of Hokkaido are also Sapporo suburb, Experience, possible. A tent for pond smelt fishing equals thorny Togawa who flows from Sapporo-shi to Ishikari-shi (separation and WA) in a winter, and a guest in a wide time visits.
When using "Giro21" you welcome and send off by car to the hotel in Chuo-ku, Sapporo-shi or Kita-ku and the JR Sapporo Station north entrance, you even can move from a temporary address and a going out destination easily. There is also free rental of snow boots and pants against the cold, but when there are a hat against the cold, a hooded outer and gloves, I'm relieved.

By the cozy atmosphere, it's also Wake aye-aye in Experience.

The Pond Smelt Tempura which has been just fished is special.
The Pond Smelt Tempura which has been just fished is special.

All necessary tools are prepared, and how to fish and feeding can have a person as the first time guide pond smelt fishing clearly, too, so the worry is unnecessary. I also make a hole of the ice fished by oneself by a drill by the style local people are enjoying with the one of the support of Staff/staff member, and tempura is also fried together, and if, privacy sense enough memory making will be done. You can cooperate with the family and my companies, peddle and enjoy Experience where a body also warms a heart in the snow scene appropriate for Hokkaido.

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Maybe the coldness becomes worried about winter outdoor Experience, but it's warm and comfortable beyond expectation in the tent. You should be able to taste the feeling which entered Kamakura.

Pond smelt fishing Giro21.
  • The address(There is a pick-up service) for about 30 minutes by car from the Sapporo-shi center. MAP
  • Business hoursPond smelt fishing tour Before and after it depends on (Sat)-2026 year March 10 (Tue)※ freezing circumstances on January 10, 2026, I have that.
    Around 9:00-13:00 Pick-up service time inclusion for approximately 4 hours (I have that in case of change, it's subject to confirmation in HP.)
  • Days closedIt's subject to confirmation in HP.
  • AdmissionA half-day tour An adult of 9000 yen, •Takahiro Naka ••professional student of 8000 yen and a child (from 5 years old, 6th grader of elementary school), 7000 yen.
    Something included in the charge: Pond smelt fishing guide fee, tent fee for use, rental of a fishing tackle, boots and exaggerated pants, tempura sampling, pick-up service and insurance charge
  • Age restrictionMore than 5 years old, it's guardian accompanying below the※ elementary students.
  • MemoA reception is from more than 2 people. It's safe and the participation and accompanying of less than 5-year-old child and pregnant women are bad.
    When being cancelled, I have one in case of bad weather. It doesn't require cancellation penalty for the case.
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