JR Sapporo Station is a layer-cake of shopping, but the layers have changed with station-area redevelopment and Hokkaido Shinkansen construction. The most useful areas for visitors are the active JR Tower shopping zones around the station, including Sapporo Stellar Place and Apia, together with nearby department stores, electronics retailers, bookstores, souvenir shops, and specialty stores within walking distance.
Stellar Place
Stellar Place entrance
Sapporo Stellar Place remains one of the main active shopping centers directly connected to JR Sapporo Station. It has fashion, lifestyle goods, cafes and dining, with shopping floors from B1 to 6F, restaurants on 6F, and Sapporo Cinema Frontier on the Center 7F. This is the station-area choice for visitors who want a broad indoor mall connected to the JR concourse, Daimaru, Apia, and the surrounding station complex. Read More
Stellar Place shops
Daimaru Sapporo Department Store
Located in the southwest sector of the station, this free-standing department store frames Sapporo Station’s outdoor plaza and connects directly with JR Sapporo and Subway Sapporo.
Daimaru Department Store at Sapporo Station
For many Sapporo shoppers, bored with Odori’s dominating Marui Imai and Mitsukoshi department stores, the advent of opulent Daimaru signified that Sapporo (a city of nearly two million people) was finally being taken seriously. Indeed, the ground floors offer opulent boutiques (Hermes, Bulgari, Gucci, Tiffany’s etc.) commensurate to Sapporo’s size, and it’s worth an escalator ride to browse Daimaru’s upper levels.
Daimaru Department Store brand name shopping
There is, naturally, a gourmet restaurant floor at the top. But the must-see is Daimaru’s basement floors. Bustling designer-sweets booths and freshly-made food stalls may tempt you into foregoing any restaurant in Sapporo, and just taking a freshly-wrapped hot boxed dinner back to your hotel room. Read More
Food Hall in the basement of Daimaru Department Store
Marui Imai Sapporo Department Store
Marui Imai is a department store with a long history in Sapporo which occupies two main buildings in the center of the city close by Odori Park. These two buildings are the Odori Building and the Ichijo Building which stand across from each other and are connected by walkways at the B1 basement level and at the 5th and 7th floors. There is also a Nishi Building (also called the West Building) which stands beside the Ichijo Building, but this has only two floors and stocks only Louis Vuitton products. Read More
Apia Underground Shopping Center
Apia is an underground shopping center on the south side of JR Sapporo Station. Here you can find a variety of fashion boutiques, souvenir stores, including Sanrio’s Hello Kitty store, pharmacies, convenience stores, cafes, fast food diners, and Japanese restaurants. Read More
Nijo Market & Other Popular Markets in Sapporo
Nijo Market is a well-known fish market in central Sapporo which is popular for both its fresh seafood restaurants and for its colorful stalls which are heaped with displays of crab, salmon, tuna, sea urchin, salmon roe, and shellfish. Read More
Daimaru Fujii Central
Daimaru Fujii Central is a large department store in Sapporo which is almost entirely devoted to stationery, office supplies, and art supplies. This is a great place to shop for high quality pens, traditional Japanese paper, stationery printed with your favorite characters, and colorful gift wrapping supplies. The 4th floor, however, also has a lot of traditional Japanese goods and accessories which makes it a good place to shop for souvenirs. Read More
Rokkatei Sapporo Main Store
Rokkatei is a famous confectionary company based in Hokkaido which produces a wide range of Japanese and Western style sweets. As a brand, Rokkatei is closely associated with Hokkaido, sourcing the best ingredients from the prefecture’s farms and dairy industry, and fittingly, the name Rokkatei (literally “six flower pavilion”) was inspired by a poetic word for snowflakes. For many visitors to Hokkaido, Rokkatei’s sweets are an essential souvenir when visiting this snowy northern island, and their fancy packaging helps to make them a popular gift too. Read More
Sapporo Factory
Sapporo Factory is a massive shopping, dining, and entertainment complex in central Sapporo. The complex was built on the site of the historic Kaitakushi Brewery (a predecessor of Sapporo Breweries) and includes some of the old red-brick brewery buildings. Altogether there are seven interlinked buildings in Sapporo Factory. Among them you will find about 150 shops and restaurants, plus sports and outdoor stores, lifestyle and interior goods, cafes, a cinema, brewery-related attractions, event spaces, and a hotel. Read More
Sapporo Tokyu Department Store
Sapporo Tokyu Department Store is a major department store close to Sapporo Station which has 10 floors of shops and restaurants above ground as well as a basement level food hall. Sapporo Tokyu stocks a great range of fashion for men and women, as well as children’s wear, sportswear, bags, accessories, cosmetics, household goods, and furniture.
Hokkaido’s best known confectionery brands and other edible souvenirs can be found in the food hall. Upper floors include large tenants useful for travelers, including Bic Camera on the 5th and 6th floors, Uniqlo and GU on the 7th floor, and Hands on the 8th floor. Read More
Sapporo Parco Department Store
Sapporo Parco is a major department store in central Sapporo located in the busy shopping district to the south of Odori Park. Parco has eight floors above ground and two basement levels. Here you can find clothes, cosmetics, bags, watches, jewelry, interior goods, beauty products, sports equipment, food, and souvenirs. Read More
Akarenga Terrace
Akarenga Terrace is a five-story commercial center in central Sapporo which is filled mainly with restaurants and cafes, but also has some shops and other services. The main architectural feature of Akarenga Terrace is its large central atrium which acts as a traditional nakaniwa or courtyard garden, giving the building’s interior a bright and airy appearance. Read More
The Kurashi Store of Hokkaido (Hokkaido Kurashi Hyakkaten)
The Kurashi Store of Hokkaido is a chain of select stores that sells only select Hokkaido produce. This store is also called Hokkaido Kurashi Hyakkaten in Japanese. “Kurashi” means “lifestyle” and “hyakkaten” means department store. However, for the most part this store sells gourmet food and drinks, as well as a variety of groceries and craft products that you can only find in Hokkaido. Here you can find a wide range of specialty goods from every region of Hokkaido that make for excellent souvenirs and gifts. Read More
Kinokuniya Books
West of the station, Kinokuniya Sapporo Main Store occupies the Sapporo55 building near JR Sapporo Station’s South Exit. This multistory bookshop stocks Japanese books and magazines, stationery, CDs and DVDs, and a foreign-books section, including English and other language titles. It remains a useful stop for guidebooks, maps, magazines, and a slower browse away from the station concourse.
There are several large souvenir shops within Sapporo Station offering last minute gifts and delicacies from Hokkaido region
Hokkaido Dosanko Plaza at Sapporo Station
Hokkaido Dosanko Plaza is a gift shop showcasing and selling the very best souvenirs of Hokkaido in the JR Sapporo Station building. This is not a huge shop, but it sells a great range of goods that you can only find in Hokkaido. Although it resembles a small supermarket, this promotional store sells around 2,000 specialty food and drink products sourced from different areas of Hokkaido. Read More
Finally, if you need shopping or sightseeing help around Sapporo Station, stop by the Hokkaido-Sapporo “Food & Tourism” Information Center in the JR Sapporo Station west concourse by the North Exit. The tourist information counter supports Japanese, English, Chinese, and Korean, and the same area also includes Hokkaido Dosanko Plaza and a JR Information Desk for overseas visitors.
Article by Michael Lambe. All rights reserved. Last updated 18-Aug-2026.
