札幌 (Sapporo)

On Hokkaidō, ⽇夲 (Nippon¹), on a low narrow neck separating the bulk of the island from the spindly southern end is 札幌 (Sapporo). It has a metropolitan population of 2.656 million.² The tallest building as of early 2014 is the JR Tower (38 stories, 2003).³

External references

Sapporo skyline, Nippon (Japan)

Historical maps

Footnotes

1. Informally also called Nihon in Japanese, and known as Japan in English.
2. 2012 calculation from world-gazetteer.com, accessed 2/6/2013.
3. Emporis.com, accessed 6/30/2014.