beadyeye 0 Posted September 1, 2008 Share Posted September 1, 2008 Hi all, new here. Just wanted to say hi. Good to find this place. Used to live in Kyushu but changed that all around now and am in Sapporo. Great city. If anyone is ever up here give me a shout! Link to post Share on other sites
grungy-gonads 54 Posted September 1, 2008 Share Posted September 1, 2008 Haro Good city. I will be there. Link to post Share on other sites
thursday 1 Posted September 1, 2008 Share Posted September 1, 2008 Great place. Link to post Share on other sites
Yuki's Passion 1 Posted September 1, 2008 Share Posted September 1, 2008 I love Kyushu - where bouts were you? Sapporo is great too! Some delish Ramen, just like Hakata! Maybe youre a ramen connoisseur? Link to post Share on other sites
tsondaboy 0 Posted September 1, 2008 Share Posted September 1, 2008 Sapporo is nice. Link to post Share on other sites
Oyuki kigan 0 Posted September 1, 2008 Share Posted September 1, 2008 Yeah, Sapporo is nice, for a Japanese city. Good food, ski hills that you can take public transportation to, and... KING XMU!!!! Link to post Share on other sites
scouser 4 Posted September 2, 2008 Share Posted September 2, 2008 Everyone seems to like Sapporo. Can't say that about many Japanese cities. Link to post Share on other sites
tsondaboy 0 Posted September 2, 2008 Share Posted September 2, 2008 Tokyo is not bad either, if you like big cities that is. Fukuoka rocks! Link to post Share on other sites
gerard 6 Posted September 2, 2008 Share Posted September 2, 2008 for Kobe too Link to post Share on other sites
Yuki's Passion 1 Posted September 2, 2008 Share Posted September 2, 2008 ger has never been to Kobe, dont listen to him Link to post Share on other sites
journey_man 0 Posted September 3, 2008 Share Posted September 3, 2008 I prefer Asahikawa... Link to post Share on other sites
Ezorisu 0 Posted September 3, 2008 Share Posted September 3, 2008 Originally Posted By: Oyuki kigan KING XMU!!!! Is that still open? Haven't really been near that part of Susukino in a while... Link to post Share on other sites
zebedee 1 Posted September 4, 2008 Share Posted September 4, 2008 How do you pronounce that?! I went to Sapporo once. Nice city. Link to post Share on other sites
Greenroome 0 Posted September 4, 2008 Share Posted September 4, 2008 Sapporo is ace. Friendly people, great bars, virtually flat for cycling, and a festival around every corner. You've just missed the beer festival featuring the attack of the six-litre Kirin beer towers (marketing genius), but you're right on time for the 'Sapporo Autumn Fest - since 2008'! http://www.welcome.city.sapporo.jp/english/event/september.html#autumnfest Enjoy... Link to post Share on other sites
skidaisuki 0 Posted September 4, 2008 Share Posted September 4, 2008 You lucky, lucky person. With great food (crab, ghengis khan, and ramen), friendly people, a comfortable climate, mountains nearby - and municipal ski resorts within the city limits...! - what more can you possibly need from a city, I ask you? I hope that your heater works OK... that's all. Link to post Share on other sites
thursday 1 Posted September 4, 2008 Share Posted September 4, 2008 ・West 5 Hokkaido gourmet and ramen noodle festival 2008. 15 popular ramen shops will be open. There will also be gourmets like "Okhotsk Kitami salt yakisoba", "Nihon Sea Shrimp and octopus gyoza", "Furano Omelet-curry". ・West 6 Odori Bazaar Amigo! An open cafe during daytime, and a special bar at night, will be open with the collaboration of 6 restaurants of Odori area and "Sapporo Tapas". You can discover every day the "food" and "culture" of Sapporo downtown. Music and performances are to be held on stage. ・West 7 Hokkaido sake and appetizers. Presentation of appetizers and food made from Hokkaido sake and ingredients, especially in the Odori Park 7-chome Bar where you can try good sake. There is also a concierge corner where food writers will present their suggestion of Sapporo restaurants. ・West 8 Sapporo Odori Furusato Market Formerly named “Linkage up Festivalâ€, it is held every weekend. More than 100 cities, towns, and villages will sell their freshest fishes, seafood, vegetables, beers and juices. West 7 Link to post Share on other sites
Greenroome 0 Posted September 5, 2008 Share Posted September 5, 2008 I'm not joking, folks here in Sapporo seem to start getting edgy if there hasn't been a festival for a day or two. I recently thought I'd made it through a day's riding around without riding into the middle of festival, and then I turned a corner and rolled straight into what appeared to be a fire services festival. It had extendo-ladder rides for the kids, 'see if you can hold on to this high-pressure hose' challenges, 'try and light these flame-retardant babies clothes' opportunities, and a jazz band smack in the middle of it. The winner for me was the smoke alarm demo tent. I was ushered into a tent filled with dry-ice smoke, screeching smoke alarms and an unknown number of other people. Visibility was zero so I was encouraged on my way in to clap my hands so that I didn't bump into other distressed fire victims. I would have gladly obliged had I not been pissing my pants laughing... Around the next corner was four closed-off streets worth of street-drinking and eating - a rehearsal for the real Susukino Festival, apparently. Sapporo, as I said, is ace. Link to post Share on other sites
thursday 1 Posted September 5, 2008 Share Posted September 5, 2008 I like Sapporo very much, even without the festivals. The atmosphere and the food and drink really is ace. Link to post Share on other sites
Ezorisu 0 Posted September 5, 2008 Share Posted September 5, 2008 It's a great place - even without the festivals. Link to post Share on other sites
Pete the Shoemaker 0 Posted September 8, 2008 Share Posted September 8, 2008 I hear many times of Sapporo being great. What exactly makes it so? Link to post Share on other sites
Ezorisu 0 Posted September 9, 2008 Share Posted September 9, 2008 If you look above, it seems that the majority of opinion is about the food and festivals. There is good seafood and produce here. Sapporo is clean, reasonably quiet, and has a good public transportation system (and is ace for cycling, as Greenroome pointed out). I'm sure that could be said for a lot of Japanese urban centers, so Sapporo isn't really unique in that way. Add quick access to nature - whether that be the ski fields in winter or parks and hiking courses in summer - and a slightly more laid-back atmosphere, and that's why it's great IMHO (but I'm biased). Link to post Share on other sites
iiyamadude 6 Posted September 11, 2008 Share Posted September 11, 2008 Sounds good to me that. Must go. Link to post Share on other sites
SKI 15 Posted September 16, 2008 Share Posted September 16, 2008 I like Sapporo too. It is a good city. Sendai is another city that I have enjoyed visiting. I am hoping to explore the area a bit more this coming winter. Link to post Share on other sites
izza 0 Posted September 17, 2008 Share Posted September 17, 2008 Going to Sapporo for 2 weeks in Feb. Part work part fun. Will be first time. Tanoshimi! Link to post Share on other sites
Ezorisu 0 Posted September 18, 2008 Share Posted September 18, 2008 During or after the yukimatsuri? Link to post Share on other sites
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