Live Webcams in Sapporo

Sapporo is the capital of Hokkaido and the largest city north of Tokyo, laid out on a grid on the Ishikari plain, and the live webcams in Sapporo watch a city built around its winter: the station plazas and crossings of the centre, the wide avenue of Odori Park, the ploughs and heated pavements at work, and the snow piling on the rooftops from December. Sapporo keeps Japan Standard Time, UTC+9, with no daylight saving, so its morning rush falls in the European small hours. Some 1.96 million people live here, and the city takes several metres of snow in a normal winter. February brings the Snow Festival to the centre, June to September the mild summers that draw the rest of Japan north.