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Shiroishi-ku, Sapporo

Shiroishi-ku (白石区) is one of the ten wards in Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan.

Shiroishi-ku, Sapporo
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The place

Shiroishi-ku (白石区) is one of the ten wards in Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan.

As of August 31, 2021, the ward has a population of 213,704.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Shiroishi-ku, Sapporo

9 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Sapporo Dome

    The Sapporo Dome, a.k.a. the Daiwa House Premist Dome for sponsorship reasons, is a stadium located in Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan, and is primarily used for association football.

    3.6 km · Multi-purpose stadium in Sapporo, Japan · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Sapporo Beer Museum

    The Sapporo Beer Museum is a museum located in the Sapporo Garden Park in Higashi-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaidō, Japan. Registered as one of the Hokkaidō Heritage sites in 2004, the museum is the only beer museum in Japan.

    4 km · museum in Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Hokkaido Prefectural Sports Center

    Hokkaido Prefectural Sports Center is an indoor sporting arena located in Toyohira-ku, Sapporo, Japan. Sometimes called Kitayell, the capacity of the main arena is 8,000.

    2.3 km · building in Toyohira-ku, Hokkaido Prefecture, Japan · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Hokkai-Gakuen University

    Hokkai Gakuen University is a private university in Sapporo, Hokkaidō, Japan. The precursor of the school was founded in 1885, and it was chartered as a university in 1952.

    3 km · private university in Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Sapporo Factory

    The Sapporo Factory is a complex that includes a shopping mall, office, multiplex movie theaters, and museum, located in Chūō-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaidō, Japan. The building was formerly a brewery that belonged to the Kaitakushi, the old government of Hokkaidō prefecture, and later owned by the Sapporo Beer Company, the predecessor of the Sapporo Brewery.

    3.9 km · building in Chuo-ku, Hokkaido Prefecture, Japan · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Guardian Angels Cathedral, Sapporo

    The Guardian Angels Cathedral also called Kitaiciho Church is the cathedral of the Diocese of Sapporo in the city of Sapporo, Japan. The church follows the Roman rite and serves as the seat of the diocese, which was raised to its current status by Pope Pius XII with the Bull "Iis Christi" in 1952.

    3.7 km · Catholic Church church building in Sapporo, Japan · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Tsukisamu Dome

    Tsukisamu Dome, also called Tsukisamu Green Dome, was an indoor arena located in Toyohira-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan. The full capacity of the arena was 5,831.

    2.3 km · building in Sapporo, Hokkaido Prefecture, Japan · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Hokkai School of Commerce

    Hokkai School of Commerce is a private university in Toyohira-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan. It was originally set up in 1977 as the Commerce Faculty of the Kitami campus of Hokkai Gakuen University; it was spun off as a separate university in April 2006, at which point it moved to Sapporo.

    2.9 km · private university in Japan · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    SAPPORO CONVENTION CENTER

    Sapporo Convention Center also known as SORA, is a convention center located in Shiroishi-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan.

    1.7 km · building in Shiroishi-ku, Hokkaido Prefecture, Japan · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

Getting to Shiroishi-ku, Sapporo

Airports
New Chitose (CTS), 38 km · Hakodate (HKD), 150 km · Aomori (AOJ), 264 km
Stations
Shiroishi Station, 1 km · Naebo Station, 3.5 km · Bus Center-Mae Station, 3.9 km · Fukuzumi Station, 2.9 km · Higashi-Sapporo Station, 1.7 km
  • Hakodate → Shiroishi-ku, Sapporo
    151 km · quickest by road, 4h 6m · ¥2,720–3,710
  • Aomori → Shiroishi-ku, Sapporo
    254 km · quickest by road, 8h 32m · ¥4,700–6,400
  • Natori → Shiroishi-ku, Sapporo
    544 km · quickest by air, 5h 28m · ¥29,480–42,760
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Shiroishi-ku, Sapporo

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Shiroishi-ku, Sapporo. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inAlthough Sapporo is inland, there are two major ferry ports nearby: Otaru and Tomakomai.
  • Get inBoth have scheduled car and passenger ferry service to points outside Hokkaido.
  • Get inSee Hokkaido for routes and ports near Sapporo or the section in the main Japan article for general Japanese ferry information.

From Wikivoyage: Sapporo, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

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Around it

Next door to Shiroishi-ku, Sapporo

Shiroishi-ku, Sapporo is 5 km from Sapporo, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Toyohira-kuone of the ten wards in Sapporo city, Japan4 km