Brief Guide to Sapporo, Sapporo, Japan

My trip to聽Japan聽began in聽Sapporo, in聽Hokkaido, because I didn鈥檛 want to get聽swallowed up by excessive Tokyo on my arrival. I wanted to聽relax in order to聽adapt to Japan smoothly and I therefore聽chose this large island in the north, snowy, almost聽uninhabited聽and ultimately not that聽Japanese鈥�

Yeah, because Hokkaido is actually home of the聽Ainu, the indigenous people made a聽minority when at the end of the XIX century the聽Japanese in search of fortune began to colonize it by forcing the integration of the natives. Their cultural specificity has been recognized by the Government only in 1998 and now there are聽many museums, cultural centers and sculptures designed to make this culture leave and spread out. Once landed in Tokyo I took a direct Vanilla Air flight (65 鈧�) from Narita Terminal 3 and arrived at New Chitose-Sapporo in 1h40.

It鈥檚 the capital of Hokkaido and architecturally speaking is a newly designed very Western city, where聽wide tree-lined boulevards cross regularly parks and gardens. Despite the winter frost I found it very liveable and lively, with always open countless shops and restaurants and many聽izakaya, literally shops where you sit to drink sake, but here they also serve delicious typical snacks. ...... (follow the instructions below for accessing the rest of this article).

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Guide Name: Brief Guide to Sapporo
Guide Location: Japan » Sapporo
Guide Type: Self-guided Walking Tour (Article (B))
Author: Silvia Moggia
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