Sapporo Tours & Trips

Starting from Sapporo with a convenient 1.5-hour Hokkaido Chuo Bus transfer from New Chitose Airport, this tour features 4-star hotel stays and personalized trips. Take a 1-hour train to Otaru to see the historic Otaru Canal, then visit Kitaichi Glass Studio to watch traditional glassmaking.

This 6-day private tour from Sapporo includes the Sapporo Snow Festival at Tsudome and Susukino Sites, where you'll see ice sculptures over 15 meters tall and illuminated fantasy castles. You'll stay at a traditional ryokan in Noboribetsu Onsen with kaiseki dinners and walk through Jigokudani (Hell Valley), a steaming volcanic crater, then check out the gaslit Otaru Canal and Tanuki Koji Shopping Arcade for grilled lamb and fresh seafood.

You'll stay 3 nights in downtown Sapporo with breakfast included, close to great restaurants and transport. See the peaceful Hokkaido-Jingu shrine, watch fresh melon pans being made at Shiroi Koibito Park, and wander through Tanuki Koji Shopping Mall's lively arcade with day trips to Asahiyama Zoo and the blue waters of Shirogane Blue Pond.

Head to the sacred Hokkaido-Jingu shrine, then walk along the historic Otaru Canal and spend time at Shiroi Koibito Park's chocolate wonderland. Check out Shikisai-no-oka's 15-hectare gardens with 30+ flower varieties like lavender and sunflowers, then see Asahiyama Zoo's polar bears and penguins gliding through glass tunnels.

You'll stay at Tokyu Rei Hotel in Sapporo and spend a night at Noboribetsu Manseikaku hot spring resort while exploring Hokkaido. Walk through the steaming Noboribetsu Hell Valley geothermal area, see Biei's Shirogane Blue Pond with its bright azure waters, and stroll the historic Otaru Canal with stops at Kitaichi Glass Otaru. Lake Toya sits within Shikotsu-Toya National Park.