[2025 Sapporo Attraction] Travel Guide for AOAO SAPPORO (Updated May)

A relaxing 1-day trip, a little sightseeing and then back to the hotel ✈️ 👉🏻 First, we started at AOAO Sapporo, an aquarium in the middle of the city. It's easy to get to, and the entrance fee is around 2,000 yen per person. Inside is a real lab. We saw staff in white uniforms working. That day, we were lucky enough to meet staff feeding penguins. They were so cute! 🐧 👉🏻 After seeing the penguins, we took the train for 2-3 stops and got off at Maruyama Park, a large park near Hokkaido Jingu Shrine and Maruyama Zoo. In early March, there was still a lot of snow, so it was beautiful to take pictures. The way to Hokkaido Jingu Shrine is also very beautiful. If you come here, you'll definitely get some great pictures to take back home. 👉🏻 When it was almost evening, we took the train back to Sapporo and got off at Susukino Station. We went up the Ferris wheel at NORBESA. This Ferris wheel is on the 7th floor. If you go in the evening, the light is very beautiful and very romantic! 🌆 There will be a ticket vending machine. We bought it for 2 rounds at once for 2,200 yen. It was really fun. If anyone comes, I recommend it. #SapporoTravel #Sapporo #HokkaidoTravel

#JapanTravel #SapporoTravel #Sapporo #Penguin #GoodsShop #Aquarium 🐠 A cute goods store in Sapporo Tanukikoji Shopping Street Susukino Street where you can buy pretty fish and penguin dolls 💙 📍AOAO sapporo : 3 Chome-20 Minami 2 Jonishi, Chuo Ward, Sapporo, Hokkaido 060-0062 Japan 📍Opening hours: 10:00~22:00 🐧 Introducing the goods store of AOAO Sapporo, an urban aquarium with emperor penguins and various marine animals! Those who don't have enough time to leisurely look around the aquarium can have a healing time just by looking at the goods shop. 🌊 You can find everything from aquarium design books to stationery and trendy doll keychains. 🐳 It's a stylishly branded aquarium, so it's also good to look at the logo and store layout. If you go to Susukino Street, I recommend you also check out the AoAo Sapporo Goods Shop!

Attraction: AOAO SAPPORO (アオアオサッポロ) 📍Address: Moyuk SAPPORO 4th to 6th floor, Minami 2-jo Nishi 3-chome 20, Chuo-ku, Sapporo 🕰️Business hours: 10:00~22:00 💰Average consumption per person: ¥2000~ 💞Recommended reasons: Hokkaido's first urban aquarium will officially open at the end of 2023, located in the bustling Susukino Tanukikoji shopping street "moyuk SAPPORO" shopping mall. The 1st to 3rd floors are department stores, and the 4th to 6th floors are the aquarium. Transportation tips: Get off at Sapporo Tram Tanukikoji Station. Take the Sapporo Metro Namboku Line, get off at Odori Station or Susukino Station, and walk towards Tanukikoji. The business hours are from 10 am to 10 pm. The ticket office is on the 4th floor. There are three touch-screen ticket machines and a manual counter. An artificial seawater making machine is displayed at the entrance. The seawater in the museum is recycled by this machine. Walking further inside, it feels like entering a laboratory, with incubators of all sizes displayed, used to cultivate new life or care for sick marine life. Seaweed of various sizes is kept in a circular aquarium, and the display method is quite novel. There are so many species that you can see Japanese eels, salamanders, hermit crabs, and horseshoe crabs that you have never seen in Hokkaido before, which is amazing. The 5th floor has the aquariums commonly seen in general aquariums. Each aquarium has a different theme. The lighting in this area is particularly dim, but you can clearly see the vitality of the creatures in the aquarium. The other area returns to the layout of a laboratory. There is no gorgeous decoration in this area, but the configuration of the aquarium allows a 360-degree view. Some marine creatures have never been seen in other aquariums, and some relatively unfamiliar marine creatures are also raised. The 6th floor is the highlight of the entire aquarium. The open exhibition area cleverly uses a pool to separate the penguins from the tourists. In fact, you can really touch the swimming penguins with your hands. These little blue penguins and northern crested penguins have different personalities, so those who like penguins must come here. On the other side of the 6th floor, different species of jellyfish are displayed. The dreamy and mysterious blue lights are also very attractive, and it is very therapeutic to sit and watch. There is also a light meal cafe where you can drink coffee while watching penguins playing in the water. Before leaving, you can go to the digital art space "Blue House", where lights and projections make you immersed in the seabed. Finally, go back to the 4th floor where there is a simple store with a lot of salamanders and frogs... I originally thought that it would only take an hour to finish the tour, but it took three hours.

It's the AAO Aquarium, located in downtown Sapporo, and is easily accessible. The fish are well managed and you can see a variety of species. The penguins are really cute, and you can see them up close! If you book in advance on Trip.com, the discount is even better!

0800 early birds have breakfast to eat, the hotel is very close to "Nijo Market", 5 minutes walk to Nijo Market to eat seafood rice (4580yen), seaweed is very fresh and sweet, great satisfaction! ❤️ Get up early to drive nearly three hours to "Twenty Roads Cherry Blossom Street Tree", to be quite disappointed, because the cherry blossoms have withered, thought they were seeing the red leaves🙈, so do not stay, fly to "Toda Memorial Cemetery Park" See 8,000 cherry blossom trees in full bloom at Toda Memorial Cemetery Park in Atsuta, Hokkaido, Japan. Until recently, it was thought that the cherry trees in the area were impossible to bloom. Atsuta is the hometown of Toda Josei (1900-1958), the second president of the Soka Gakkai. President Toda died on April 2, 1958, at the age of 58. He devoted his life to reviving the spirit of Buddhism in modern times. When the third president Daisaku Ikeda established the Toda Memorial Cemetery Park there on October 2, 1977, he imagined Japan's famous Somei Yoshino cherry blossoms - the cherry blossoms beloved by his mentor, President Toda, would be in full bloom in the park. He imagined how they would delight local residents. However, the trees here never grew. Temperatures that drop below minus 18 degrees Celsius (about 0 degrees Fahrenheit) can freeze the roots of trees, crack their trunks, and have many other natural obstructions. The park’s chief gardener, Tadashi Sasaki, decided to accept the challenge. For ten years, Mr. Sasaki worked tirelessly to carefully wrap the trunk of each tree to keep it warm and meticulously trimmed unnecessary branches and improved soil. Eventually, he succeeded in what many considered impossible challenges—the cherry blossom trees in Atsuta bloomed beautifully and lushly. “Today, Mr. Toda’s statue gazes at his hometown of Hokkaido like a loving father, surrounded by 8,000 cherry blossom trees… This eternal oasis of tranquility is indeed a symbol of Soka’s triumphant struggle,” said President Ikeda. Return to Sapporo for a round of food and drink, to avoid cherry blossom fatigue, in the evening 2000 temporary add trip to AOAO SAPPORO to see penguins (entrance fee 2200yen) Walk to 2200 to have dinner しゃぶしゃぶ豚神開到0400 One person before Shabushabu chose the Shiretoko pork package, plus a drink (2770yen) The portion is not much, the taste is good, the price is not too high value for money for Japan, but satisfies the appetite. Hotel Accommodation: VIA INN PRIME Sapporo Odori - JR West Japan Group

📍Shirokuma Bakery & A photogenic cafe inside the aquarium. They sell bread, drinks, parfaits, and more! If you take a photo in front of the jellyfish area🪼, you can take a fantastic photo✨ 【INFORMATION】 Shirokuma Bakery & 📮6F moyuk SAPPORO, 20 Minami 2-jo Nishi 3-chome, Chuo-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido 060-0062 🕑10:00-22:00 #Spring 0 yen trip

The penguins are worth seeing, so you don't have to be exposed to the sun or the wind. The ticket is expensive at ¥2,200. The route is not very smooth, so you can go for a stroll if you are not in a hurry.

#Japan #JapanTravel #SapporoTravel #aoao #Aquarium If you want to spend some leisurely time in the city and heal yourself when you go to Sapporo, I recommend the AOAO Aquarium :) Take the escalator from the 1st floor of the Moyuk Sapporo building to the 4th floor, and you will find the entrance. You can purchase tickets on the travel ticket site, and if you show the QR code, the staff will scan it for you without having to print it separately, so you can enter easily. The cute penguins are on the 6th floor. If you want to see the penguins eating or coming out, you can go to the 6th floor first, or if not, you can go up slowly from the 4th floor and look around. The 4th floor is an aquarium in the form of a research center that conducts water quality research. The 5th floor is an aquarium full of aquatic plants, small fish, snakes, sea anemones, and other marine life. The 6th floor has penguins and jellyfish, and there is also a cafe where you can have a light meal. Among them, there is a separate area where there are fairy penguins, so be sure to visit!! 📍Location: Moyuk SAPPORO 4-6th floor

📍Overview of the trip, easy travel 🚩Travel route Sapporo Otaru 🏖️ Must-see attractions Moai, shrines, chocolate factories 🚇How to get there Subway, trams, buses 📷Photo spots throughout the city Odori Park, Clock Tower, Old City Hall 🍜Recommended food Nijo Fish Market, Otaru Fish Market 🏠Recommended accommodation Dormy Inn Susukino near Tanukikoji shopping street 💡Caution: Drunk people in the morning from 3:00 AM to 5:00 AM