Sapporo Walking Tour: Explore Modern and Traditional Sides

Discover the dynamic and ancient city of Sapporo on a half-day private tour with a government-licensed guide. Explore both modern and traditional sides of the city and customize your itinerary to visit your must-see spots.

Duration: 4 hours
Cancellation: 24 hours
Highlights
  • Sapporo Snow Festival - The Sapporo Snow Festival (さっぽろ雪まつり, Sapporo Yuki Matsuri) is held during one week every February in Hokkaido’s capital Sapporo. It is one of Japan’s most popular winter events.
    The Sapporo Snow Festival was started in 1950, when high school students built a few snow statues in Odori Park. It has since developed into a…
What's Included
  • Meet up with guide on foot within designated area of Sapporo
  • Licensed Local English Speaking Guide
  • Customizable Tour of your choice of 2-3 sites from ‘What to expect’ list
What's Not Included
  • Transportation fees, Entrance fees, Lunch, and Other personal expenses
  • Private Vehicle
  • You cannot combine multiple tour groups.
  • Guide Entry fees are only covered for sights listed under What to Expect.
Additional Information

Enjoy an efficient, half-day walking tour of Sapporo accompanied by a government-licensed, experienced English-speaking guide! Your guide will help you explore Sapporo while introducing both modern and traditional sides of this dynamic, ancient city.
Sapporo City, on the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido, may be more famous for its winter activities,…

Location
Sapporo Snow Festival
4 Odorinishi, Chuo-ku, Odori Park
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

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N4614rb_
Feb 13, 2025
Enjoy Sapporo 4 hours - The history and the stories from the local guides themselves made me feel it with all five senses. I have heard about Sapporo many times on tour, but I am 200% satisfied with my request. They also took many commemorative photos.
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Stephuchino
Feb 9, 2025
Thank you Tom! - I loved this customizable tour with our tour guide Tom! He was both helpful and very knowledgeable, offering great recommendations and insight into Sapporo. Tom was very responsive during the planning of our tour and gave great suggestions on where to go. He also offered to take lots of pictures for us which was very nice of him. We ended up going over our tour time at the last location and we let him know that he could leave if he needed to, but he stuck with us and made sure we got home without getting lost. I would highly recommend this tour! My only regret was not doing it sooner, so we could do more of his other suggestions before we left Sapporo!
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289hanw
Jan 5, 2025
Wonderful Traipse around town - Kumiko is knowlegeable,thoughtful, and took care of us,a rag tag family from 18 to 87. We did the Clock Tower, TV Tower, Hokkaido Jungu Shrine, Tanukikoji shopping street, squeezed in a fabulous soba lunch. We did not feel rushed at all. Gave us many useful tips about town and a deeper appreciation of life in Sapporo. Thank You.
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G5102beannied
Dec 27, 2024
Sapporo, Hokaido Winter Escapade - We had an experienced tour guide who gave us a good history of sapporo and explained some of the areas we passed by. A great place with a lot of winter magic place.. snow is powdery and illumination is everywhere.. great experience! Thank you mam Kate (Katsuko Kemanai)
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Chrishoiboi
Oct 23, 2024
Great tour! - Roy was super nice and fun! He was very knowledgeable and friendly. He took us to the prominent landmarks and told us about the history of the places. Would recommend!
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Jen
Oct 20, 2024
Tour of Sapporo Hokkaido Japan - Tour of Sapporo Hokkaido Japan. Ryoei Akoi, Licensed Tour Guide. Excellent! Knowledgeable of content and super interpersonal skills. Tour Guide is exceptionally competent and fair-minded with touring.
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344adryr
Oct 6, 2024
Great experience - It was a lovely experience to visit Sapporo with Michiko San. To visit the city with a very experienced guide, gave us the opportunity to use our day very well. I highly recommend It.
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Amelietravels
Oct 3, 2024
Friendly knowledgeable guide kept us out of the rain! - Great tour by Roy, taking into consideration the rainy, foggy day. He adjusted our itinerary to suit and keep us out of the worst of the wet weather. His English is excellent and he continues to learn and fine tune his language skills and also his historical and factual knowledge base as well. He very kindly helped us search out stamps for postcards I wanted to send home and also gave us a crash course on taking trains and subways in Sapporo. We made it back to our hotel in Otaru tired but happy to have made our train connection. Great tour Roy and thank you again!! Highly recommend this tour.
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Miller
Aug 11, 2024
Good intro to Sapporo - Our guide was very knowledgeable about the history and customs of Sapporo and made sure we saw a wide variety of things. We especially liked Hokkaido Shrine and Odori Park.
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Gametogenesis
Oct 26, 2024
Good but not as expected - We booked this 4-hour private tour hoping to gain some in-depth insights into our first time in Sapporo. Tom showed us around and tried his best but we felt the necessary tourist-guide interaction was somewhat incomplete/impersonal. We did, however, get some insights into this marvelous city and for that we're thankful, especially for showing us the ramen alley.
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