| Pricing Guide | ￥300- ￥500 |
| Opening Hours | All day |
| Closed | - |
| Notes | System is in Japanese |
| Location / Getting There | Multiple locations |
Where can you wash your car in Sapporo? For automobile owners, or for rentals, there are two ways to give your car or bike a good wash if you don’t have the room (or the time) at your residence. The first, and more expensive, is at the gas stations where you can sit back and have a coffee. The second, and more economical option is at the self service car wash stations that are dotted around Hokkaido. Each station has about 3 to 5 car bays with a heavy duty water spray and a machine to select the washing course.
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Spray machine
About the same size an ATM, the water spray machines are green or blue but they do the same thing. There are 6 washing courses to choose from and they are pretty simple to use. There is a simple water wash, a soap wash, and a wax course and they last from 5 to 10 minutes. Simply follow the three steps:
1. Place your money into the machine.
2. Choose which course you want and push the button. This symbol 押
3. Pick up the water spray and then press the start button
The standard course, is a water wash, a soap wash, then a water rinse. The long course is the same but longer for a large vehicle. The spray machines are in Japanese, for a translations in English, please see the image below.
| Pricing Guide (Avg. cost per person) | Each dish from ￥200- ￥1000 each |
| Opening Hours | 11:00 - 23:30 |
| Closed | - |
| Contact | 011-213-5608 |
| Notes | Japanese Izakaya |
| Location / Getting There | Located in Paseo West at Sapporo station 060 0806 Hokkaido Sapporo City Kita-ku Northern 6th west 4-3-1 Paseo 1F |
Grilled chicken
Tori yo Sakana yo (which translates to “chicken! fish!”) is a Japanese style bar/restaurant. As with all Izakayas in Japan, this restaurant serves up small dishes of Japanese cuisine. There is a good selection of salads, seafood and meat. Grilled chicken, and grilled pork on skewers is a popular dish. As is the large selection of delicious sashimi and grilled fish. Not all the dishes are Japanese, however. There are pizzas, pastas, and a nice serving of avocado with melted cheese.
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Succulent sashimi
As with the food menu, the drink menu offers beer, a wide range of spirits, soft drinks and juices. There is a “Nomihodai” option (all you can drink), which goes for 2 hours. The nomihodai includes tap beers, and a selection of spirits. The “Tori Yo Sakana Yo” Restaurant restaurant is located in the Paseo restaurant section. It’s in a convenient area, and close to the station and Stellar place department store and Daimaru department store, so it’s a good spot for some lunch or dinner.
| Pricing Guide (Avg. cost per person) | ￥1500 - ￥2500 |
| Opening Hours | 11:00 - 22:00 |
| Closed | - |
| Contact | 011-213-5660 |
| Notes | English menu |
| Location / Getting There | Located at Sapporo station Paseo 〒060-0806 Hokkaido, Sapporo, Kita, Kita 6 Jonishi, 2 Chome, Paseo West 1F |
Hamburger soup curry
Okushiba Soup Curry is a delicious soup curry restaurant based right near Sapporo station. This soup curry restaurant offers a few traditional soup curry dishes plus some unique ones, in a nice retro Japanese setting. Along with the soup curries they also excel in shrimp soups and puddings, plus fried chicken and beef cutlets. The staff are very friendly, and the menu does come in English with photos which is easy to follow. The hard part, is which dish to choose!
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Cool décor
The owner, Yosuke Okushiba, has based the shrimp soup (of which this restaurant is themed) on his grandmothers traditional recipe, that has been passed down from generation to generation. The soup curry servings are big and the bowls are HUGE, which will leave any customer content. They have the traditional vegetable dishes, chicken, and pork dishes. The unique dishes include the hamburger patty with egg soup curry, sliced beef curry, and their original karage (fried chicken) soup curry.
| Admission | Adults : ￥420 Aged 7 - 15 : ￥300 6 and under : free |
| Opening Hours | 9:00 - 16:30 (16:00 last entry) |
| Closed | Mondays（on Tuesday when Monday is a National Holiday） Winter - November to April |
| Contact | 011-221-0066 hubg@fsc.hokudai.ac.jp |
| Notes | Wheelchairs available to borrow The botanic garden does not allow pets on garden grounds. Service animals are permitted. Toilets available. No car parking Parking available for motorcycles and bicycles. |
| Location / Getting There | North3, West8, Chuo-ku, Sapporo, 060-0003, Japan 10 minute walk from Sapporo station |
Woodlands
The Hokkaido University Botanical Gardens were established in 1886 as a part of the Old Sapporo Agricultural College. They were opened by Dr. Miyabe Kingo, a graduate of Sapporo Agricultural College (now Hokkaido University). The gardens cover 13.3 hectares and are the second oldest botanical gardens in Japan! The collection of plants and trees numbers over 4,000 species. These include alpine plants, and wild plants from Hokkaido, and can be enjoyed in the Spring, Summer, and Autumn.
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Natural History Museum
The gardens also contain a tropical greenhouse, a natural history museum, memorial building, and early Hokkaido homes. The natural history museum was built in 1884, and is the oldest museum in Hokkaido. Its old and spooky facade houses Ainu artifacts, biological specimens, and the stuffed body of ‘Taro’, one of two surviving sled dogs from Japan’s 1958 Antarctica mission. The exhibits documenting the lives of the Ainu and Uilta (indigenous peoples of Hokkaido) were collected from 1870 – 1930. There is also the Miyabe Kingo Memorial Building with displays of articles belonging to Miyabe, the first director of the botanical gardens.
Rose garden area
Other features of the Botanical Gardens are a Herbaceous Plants Garden, a Rose Garden with 200 rose bushes from 20 different varieties, a Canadian Rock Garden (in commemoration of the partnership between the University of British Colombia and the University of Hokkaido) ,and the Alpine Plants Rock Garden with over 600 species of alpine plants home to Hokkaido and its climate. The Northern Peoples Ethnobotanical Garden has around 200 species of plants used by the indigenous peoples of North East Asia for building, clothing, food, hunting, medicine and rituals.
The botanical gardens, are only a 10 minute walk from Sapporo station on the south exit. It is also a few minutes on the west side of the Old Hokkaido Government Building so you can fit the gardens into a sightseeing schedule. The gardens are a nice spot to walk around, sit on one of the many lawns, and take in the nature. Visitors can enjoy the seasonal flowers and the autumn leaves.
| Pricing Guide (Avg. cost per person) | From ￥1000- ￥2000 |
| Opening Hours | 11:00 - 23:00 |
| Closed | - |
| Contact | 011-213-5454 *Parco department store |
| Notes | Credit cards accepted Menu in English + photos Non smoking Seating 76 |
| Location / Getting There | Located on 8th floor of Parco Department Store 3-3 Minami-Ichijo Nishi, Chuo-ku, Sapporo City, Hokkaido |
Views into the kitchen
Benitora Gyozabou is a fusion Chinese restaurant located on the top floor of the Parco Department store. It is one of 8 restaurants in the Parco food court. It is open throughout the day until late into the evenings. There is a special lunch set menu and a dinner set menu. The menu is in English and has plenty of information about each dish. Benitora Gyozabou has plenty of seating, and has a nice layout with Chinese modern art, an open kitchen and a good design.
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The menu offers all kinds of Chinese cuisine. There are dumplings (5 different flavors), Chinese vegetables, Szechwan flavored noodles, including the hot & spicy Dan Dan noodles, which are probably the one of the spiciest things you can eat in Sapporo! Stir fried shrimp, sweet & sour pork, fried rice, salads, and side dishes are also on the menu. If you have room, then there is a delicious dessert menu as well! Alcohol and non-alcoholic drinks are also served. Lunch sets and dinner sets include a drink, soup and a dessert.
| Admission | Free |
| Opening Hours | 9:00 - 17:00 (including prayer room) |
| Closed | - |
| Contact | 011-521-2565 |
| Notes | Prayer room available for reservations. Available for weddings & funerals |
| Location | Nakajima Park 1- 8, Chuo-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido 5 minute walk from Nakajima park station |
“Torii” located at the entrance
Iyahiko Shrine is located in Nakajima park on the east side. It’s a small Shinto shrine and when you are in
Nakajima Park it’s another nice little spot to visit to get some nice photos, to pray, or to buy a souvenir or prayer amulet. Feel free to walk around the small grounds, or sit for a coffee and enjoy a piece of Japanese culture. There are special events at the shrine that take place throughout the year, especially around New Year. Summer and the Obon festival are also big on the calendar. Iyahiko Shrine is especially beautiful during the autumn and winter seasons.
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“Komainu” statue guarding the temple
Prayer rooms and prayer times are daily. For specific blessings, for things such as company prosperity, baby blessings, or for family health and safety then a priest is available. The cost ranges from ￥5000 to ￥15,000. Before coming to visit for a blessing, it is recommended to contact the shrine as there are occasions where the priest is absent at a visit. And as with all religious or spiritual places, the shrine is available for weddings or funerals. The amulets and trinkets available from the shop cover things from health, luck to money and prosperity.
