About this app

Have Sapporo tourist information close at hand! Sapporo Info – an official smartphone application developed by the City of Sapporo!

Sapporo, the biggest city in Hokkaido, is surrounded by beautiful scenery of its dynamic nature, and there are various tourist spots to visit and activities to partake in. Visitors can also enjoy delicious food gathered both from the sea and the mountains.
Sapporo is an attractive city that is known for various international events, including the Sapporo Snow Festival. To make your trip to Hokkaido and Sapporo more enjoyable, the City of Sapporo has released this tourism application, called Sapporo Info.

★This is the first official application created by the City of Sapporo. The application offers a wide variety of contents including discount coupons.
Sapporo Info provides over 160 videos and images introducing various tourist attractions in Sapporo. The application also offers a location service, the latest events and recommended local information, and useful tourist tools include maps and brochures. You can use this application as you plan your trip before departure and also while you are actually travelling in Sapporo. There are also some discount coupons that are only available to users of this application at selected tourist spots in Sapporo. These are provided free of charge.

★The application is provided in multiple languages and is available without being connected to the Internet.
“Sapporo Info” is available in English, Chinese (simplified Chinese and traditional Chinese), Korean and Thai apart from Japanese.
This application provides offline caching. Once the content is downloaded, you can access it without being connected to the Internet (excluding the content based on location service and some streaming videos). People from other countries can also enjoy tourist maps and discount coupons using this application without being connected to the Internet.

Enjoy visiting Sapporo with this application!

＜Main contents＞
■Tourist map (central Sapporo map, regional map and subway map)
■Tourist information of Sapporo (transportation information, tourist information centers)
■Discount coupons and tickets
■Brochures and video contents for foreign visitors
■Recommended tourist courses and videos of tourist spots in Sapporo (25 courses and about 100 videos)
■Recommended information on enjoyable seasonal events and attractions
■Promotional videos and slideshows of Sapporo
■Content introducing events, nature, art, culture and sports
■Major foods of Sapporo

*When starting this application for the first time, the initial content is downloaded.
It is recommended that people from other countries download the initial content before using the application in Sapporo.

＜Main functions＞
■Tourist spots introduced by videos using positional data
■Tourist spot search function
■Navigation function for strolling around the city
■Camera function, “Co Co Camera,” with its special photo frames
■Offline cache function that makes the contents available without being connected to the Internet
■Social network linkage function
Information on tourist spots can be directly added to your Twitter, Facebook or Sina Weibo account.

＜Supported OS＞
Android OS 4.4 or later
*Operation is not guaranteed for all models.

＜Supported languages＞
Japanese, English, Chinese (simplified Chinese and traditional Chinese), Korean, Thai

＜Fees＞
This application is free of charge. You will not be charged any fees for viewing the contents and accessing the information (your Internet access fee is separate).

＜Credits＞
Planning and operation: City of Sapporo
Developer: Hokkaido Broadcasting Co., Ltd.
In cooperation with: Greater Sapporo Tourism Region Promotion Committee

*The copyright of all information on this application, excluding third party content, belongs to the City of Sapporo.

New features

Deletion of the functions that uses location information in the background

App Permissions

Allows applications to open network sockets.
Allows applications to access information about networks.
Allows an app to access precise location.
Required to be able to access the camera device.
Allows an application to write to external storage.
Allows access to the vibrator.
Allows access to the list of accounts in the Accounts Service.
Allows using PowerManager WakeLocks to keep processor from sleeping or screen from dimming.
This constant was deprecated in API level 21. No longer enforced.
Allows an application to read from external storage.