64% of Sapporo area is covered with forest (Sapporo City green basis plan book).

　If you look at Sapporo from 10,000m above it, you will see lights shining in a fan shape, and irradiating toward the suburb. But you will also see in the heart of the city some areas with no lights at all: that would be Hokkaido University, Nakajima Park, or Makomanai Park. The South West and the West parts of Sapporo will be dark too: this is where the mountains of Shikotsu Toya National Park lie.

　118 rivers take their source in Sapporo City. Brown bears, deer, woodpeckers, foxes lives in those deep mountains.

　Lots of people of Sapporo spend their holidays in forest, looking for birds or plants, having fun in rivers, touring waterfalls, etc.

Nature walk and waterfalls
　Information about hiking courses, and routes for nature observation or forest walking, located within one hour's drive from Sapporo.

Campsites inside Sapporo
　Presentation of camp and auto camp sites located inside Sapporo.

Going down canyon by canoe
　Presentation of camp and auto camp sites located inside Sapporo.

Brown bears live in the mountains of a big city
　The presence of bears in forests is the proof that those forests are wealthy. Brown bears keep living in the mountains of the 1.8 million people City of Sapporo.

(September 2007, trld. July 2008)

Sapporo's history
　 Thanks to its high quality water, life is easy in the city of Sapporo.

A city with a national park
　 Shikotsuko Toya National Park occupies one quarter of Sapporo City area.