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Travel Home > Directory > Destinations > Asia > Japan > Sapporo
Sapporo Hotels Reservation including – Park Hotel Sapporo, Keio Plaza Hotel, Kourakuen Hotel, Excel Tokyu Hotel, Prince Hotel, Grand Hotel Sapporo, Odori Hotels, Susukino Hotels and Hokkaido Hotels.
With 188 rooms, this property contains all the amenities and services you would expect from a 4-star hotel. The hotel in Sapporo also has wheelchair accessible, morning call, city transfers, travel counter, dry cleaning and laundry, conference rooms, and room service. The hotel is located at the New Chitose Airport Terminal Building and is very popular with business travellers.
New Chitose Airport (IATA: CTS, ICAO: RJCC), is an airport located in Chitose and Tomakomai, Hokkaidō, Japan, serving the Sapporo metropolitan area. By land area, it is the largest airport in Japan. The airport has a single semicircular terminal building (similar to the terminals at DFW Airport), which handles domestic and international flights.
Sapporo is the fifth-largest city in Japan by population and the third-largest by geographic area. It is the capital of Hokkaidō Prefecture and an ordinance-designated city of Japan. Sapporo is best known outside Japan for hosting the 1972 Winter Olympics, and the annual yuki matsuri in the city, internationally referred to as the Sapporo Snow Festival, which draws more than 2 million tourists from around the world. The city is also home to the eponymous Sapporo Breweries.
One of Japan's newest and nicest cities, Sapporo's population has grown from 7 in 1857 to nearly two million today. Being a new city, especially by Japanese standards, means it has little in the way of traditional architecture and the like of cities such as Kyoto. But what it lacks in "Japanese-ness" it makes up for with its lovely open, tree-filled boulevards to enjoy in summer and excellent snow (and facilities to cope with said snow) in the long winter.
In June 1876, Seibei Nakagawa, who had recently returned from Germany where he studied the art of beer making, was chosen as brewmaster to oversee construction of a beer factory. That September, the Kaitakushi Brewery was completed. The following year, Sapporo Lager was born, prominently displaying the Pioneers' symbol, the North Star.
The 1972 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XI Olympic Winter Games, were celebrated in 1972 in Sapporo, Japan, the first Winter Olympics to be held outside Western Europe and the USA, and only the 3rd Games (Summer or Winter) held outside of the above mentioned regions, after Tokyo and Mexico City.
