Sapporo is the fifth-largest city in Japan by population. It is the capital of HokkaidÅ Prefecture, located in Ishikari Subprefecture, and an ordinance-designated city of Japan.Sapporo City is best known outside Japan for hosting the 1972 Winter Olympics, the first ever held in Asia, and for 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 Brewery.
Sapporo tity has ten wards
Atsubetsu-ku , Chuo-ku, Higashi-ku, Kita-ku, Kiyota-ku, Minami-ku, Nishi-ku, Shiroishi-ku, Teine-ku, Toyohira-ku.
Sapporo Climate
Sapporo has a humid continental climate (Koppen Dfa), with a wide range of temperature between the summer and winter. Summers are generally hot but not humid, and winters quite cold and snowy. It snows a lot in winter, enabling it to hold events and festivals with snow statues and objects. Boasting 630 cm (248 inches) on average , it is one of the few metropolises in the world with such heavy snowfall. The city's annual average precipitation is around 1,100 mm (43 inches), and the mean annual temperature is 8.5°C (47°F).