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The Blue Canal, Otaru

Date2024/11/1 (Fri) to 2025/1/31 (Fri)

Time: Sunset to 10:30pm. The lights get turned at sunset (roughly 4pm) and stay on till about 10:30pm.

Address: Otaru Canal, Minatomachi, Otaru-shi, Hokkaido 047-0007

Open: 24 hours

Admission: Free

URL: https://otaru.gr.jp/citizen/winter-blue-canal

2023/11/1 (Wed) to 2024/1/31 (Wed)

November 1st (Tue), 2022, to January 31st

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Sapporo Munich Christmas Market

Phone: 011-206-6780 (Japanese)

When: November 22 – December 25, 2024

Time: 11am to 9pm

Area: Odori Park 2 Chome

GPS: 43.06079370474163, 141.35441103534345

Website: https://www.sapporo.travel/en/event/event-list/munich_christmas_market/

German Christmas Market in Sapporo

The market has been held in Sapporo since 2002, when the city marked the thirtieth anniversary of its sister-city ties with Munich, Germany. Stalls

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Asahikawa Winter Festival 2025: Hokkaido's Second Largest Winter Event (2/6-2/11)

Phone: 0166-25-7168

When: The beginning of February / February 6th, 2025 (Thu) to February 11th, 2025 (Tue)

Where: 4044 Tokiwakoen, Asahikawa, Hokkaido 070-0044

Time: 10am to 10pm

Charge: Free Entry

Fireworks: On the First and Last Day

Length of Festival: Roughly 1 Week

URL: https://asahikawa-winterfes.jp/

2024:

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Odori Park, Sapporo

Phone: 011-251-0438 (Odori Park Kanri Jimusho)

Address: Odori Nishi 1-chome to Odori Nishi 12-chome, Central Ward, Sapporo

Open: 24 Hours

Charge: Free

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/explore/locations/221925511/odori-park

URL: https://odori-park.jp/en/

For The Taxi Driver:
札幌市大通公園

GPS: 43.06057447476167, 141.35198487755383

In 1871, a firebreak was built to cut Central Ward in

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Sapporo Snow Festival - Early February

When: Usually February 4th to February 11th

Where: Odori Park, Susukino & Tsudome

History: The Snow Festival began as a one-day event in 1950, when six local high school students built six snow statues in Odori Park. In 1955 the Japan Self-Defense Forces from the Makomanai base joined in and built the first massive snow

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Sapporo White Illumination | Events

When: Late November to Late February

Time: 4:30pm to 8pm

Area: Odori Park, Ekimae Street, the Minami Ichijo Dori Site, the Sapporo Kita 3-jo Plaza (Akapla) Site, and the south plaza exit of Sapporo JR Station

GPS: 43.06001623159241, 141.3481707082898

Website: https://white-illumination.jp/

This winter light-up is held at five different locations in

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Sapporo Yosakoi Soran Festival 2024 (6/5-9)

When: The middle of June / 2024, June 5th (Wed) to June 9th (Sun)

2023, June 7th (Wed) to June 11th (Sun)

2022, June 8th (Wed) to June 12th (Sun)
 2022, June 10th (Fri): 4:30pm to 9:30pm
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Otaru Canal

Otaru Canal (小樽運河, Otaru Unga) was used to transport goods to warehouses along the canal long ago. The canal became obsolete when new docking facilities allowed direct unloading of larger vessels. Part of the canal was restored in the 1980s instead of being filled in. The warehouses were turned into museums, shops and restaurants.

It's a nice

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Ebetsu Fireworks 2025

Phone: 011-398-4560 Ebetsu Fireworks Executive Committee

When: Ticket sales start on 2025/6/1 / The event will probably be 2025/7/19 (Sat) or on Sunday the 20th if the weather is bad on Saturday.

2024/7/20 (Sat) or on Sunday the 21st if the weather is bad on Saturday.
2023/07/22 (Sat), 7:20pm to about 9pm
2022/07/16 (Sat), 7:45pm

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Hill of Buddha (Buddha Hill) Makomanai, Sapporo

Phone011-592-1223 (Makomanai Takino Cemetery)

Address: Makomanai Takino Cemetery, 2 Banchi, Takino, South Ward, Sapporo, Hokkaido 005-0862

Open: 9am to 3pm

URL: https://www.takinoreien.com/pages/49/#block398-2137

GPS: 42.92057956085291, 141.3627875680047 (Google Maps)

For The Taxi Driver: 〒005-0862  札幌市南区滝野2番地

Description

Architect: Tadao Ando

Built: December 2015

The Hill of Buddha is a Buddhist shrine

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Sapporo Archives Museum (Former Sapporo Court of Appeal)

Phone: 011-251-0731

Address: Odori Park, West 13, Central Ward, Sapporo, Hokkaido 060-0042

Admission Fee: Free

Open: 9am to 7pm

Closed: Monday

URL: https://www.s-shiryokan.jp/

GPS: 43.05860337079381, 141.33747387731665

This museum has 3 sections. The old law court, the Sapporo history section and Oba Hiroshi's art gallery. Oba

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Old Hokkaido Government Office Building, Akarenga

Phone: 011-204-5019 (Hokkaido Cho - Weekdays 8:45 to 5:30pm - Japanese)
011-204-5000 (Hokkaido Prefectural Government Main Office Sat, Sun & Holidays)

Address: North 3 West 6, Central Ward, Sapporo

Fee: Free

Open: 8:45am to 6pm

Closed: The end and beginning of the year.

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