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Sapporo TV Tower illuminated at night during the winter light festival, with glowing trees, Christmas decorations, and crowds enjoying the snowy evening. (๊ฒจ์šธ ๋น› ์ถ•์ œ๋กœ ํ™˜ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋น›๋‚˜๋Š” ์‚ฟํฌ๋กœ TV ํƒ€์›Œ์™€ ํฌ๋ฆฌ์Šค๋งˆ์Šค ์žฅ์‹, ๋ˆˆ ๋‚ด๋ฆฐ ์ €๋…์„ ์ฆ๊ธฐ๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค)

๐ŸงŠ Sapporo & Otaru in December(์‚ฟํฌ๋กœ & ์˜คํƒ€๋ฃจ, 12์›”์˜ ๊ฒจ์šธ)

Snow-covered streets, sparkling holiday lights, and silent evening walks โ€” each moment felt like a page from a winter postcard.

๋ˆˆ ๋ฎ์ธ ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ, ๋ฐ˜์ง์ด๋Š” ๊ฒจ์šธ ๋ถˆ๋น›, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๊ณ ์š”ํ•œ ์ €๋… ์‚ฐ์ฑ… โ€” ๋ชจ๋“  ์ˆœ๊ฐ„์ด ๊ฒจ์šธ ์—ฝ์„œ ์† ํ•œ ์žฅ๋ฉด ๊ฐ™์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

A beautiful winter night scene featuring a large tower with a digital clock and colorful lights, surrounded by a festive atmosphere with holiday decorations, and people gathered below.

Sapporo TV Tower illuminated in vibrant colors during the winter light festival, with a glowing Christmas tree leading the way.

๐Ÿ“ Location & How to Get There (์œ„์น˜ & ์ฐพ์•„๊ฐ€๋Š” ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•)
Sapporo โ€” Capital of Hokkaido, famous for its snow festival, ski resorts, and winter illuminations.
์‚ฟํฌ๋กœ โ€” ํ™‹์นด์ด๋„์˜ ์ค‘์‹ฌ ๋„์‹œ๋กœ, ๋ˆˆ ์ถ•์ œ์™€ ์Šคํ‚ค ๋ฆฌ์กฐํŠธ, ๊ฒจ์šธ ์ผ๋ฃจ๋ฏธ๋„ค์ด์…˜์œผ๋กœ ์œ ๋ช…ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Otaru โ€” A charming port city known for its romantic canal, glassware, and music box shops.
์˜คํƒ€๋ฃจ โ€” ๋‚ญ๋งŒ์ ์ธ ์šดํ•˜์™€ ์œ ๋ฆฌ ๊ณต์˜ˆ, ์˜ค๋ฅด๊ณจ ์ƒ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์•Œ๋ ค์ง„ ๋งค๋ ฅ์ ์ธ ํ•ญ๊ตฌ ๋„์‹œ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

From Sapporo to Otaru: JR Hakodate Main Line (about 35โ€“40 min).
์‚ฟํฌ๋กœ โ†’ ์˜คํƒ€๋ฃจ: JR ํ•˜์ฝ”๋‹คํ…Œ ๋ณธ์„  ์•ฝ 35โ€“40๋ถ„ ์†Œ์š”.

From New Chitose Airport to Sapporo: JR Rapid Airport Express (about 40 min).
์‹ ์น˜ํ† ์„ธ ๊ณตํ•ญ โ†’ ์‚ฟํฌ๋กœ: JR ์พŒ์† ์—์–ดํฌํŠธ ์•ฝ 40๋ถ„ ์†Œ์š”.

A daytime view of a brick train station building with a clock, with cars and people moving around outside.

Description: Otaru Station โ€” A charming retro-style railway hub with a brick faรงade and clock tower, welcoming visitors to the historic port city of Otaru.
Image source: Google Maps Street View / Otaru Station

โ„๏ธ Seasonal Highlights (๊ณ„์ ˆ๋ณ„ ๋งค๋ ฅ)

December โ€” Christmas markets in Sapporo, Otaru Snow Light Path early illumination.
12์›” โ€” ์‚ฟํฌ๋กœ ํฌ๋ฆฌ์Šค๋งˆ์Šค ๋งˆ์ผ“, ์˜คํƒ€๋ฃจ ๋ˆˆ์˜ ๊ธธ ์ดˆ๋ฐ˜ ์ ๋“ฑ.

Januaryโ€“February โ€” Sapporo Snow Festival, ski slopes in nearby resorts.
1~2์›” โ€” ์‚ฟํฌ๋กœ ๋ˆˆ ์ถ•์ œ, ์ธ๊ทผ ์Šคํ‚ค ๋ฆฌ์กฐํŠธ์—์„œ์˜ ํ™œ๊ฐ•.

Winter in Otaru โ€” Snow-covered streets, warm cafรฉs, and canal lights at night.
์˜คํƒ€๋ฃจ์˜ ๊ฒจ์šธ โ€” ๋ˆˆ ๋ฎ์ธ ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ์™€ ๋”ฐ๋œปํ•œ ์นดํŽ˜, ๋ฐค์˜ ์šดํ•˜ ์กฐ๋ช….

A winter night scene with a green-lit building, snow-covered streets, and people walking along the snowy road illuminated by streetlights.

Description: Otaru streets at night, illuminated by warm streetlights and colorful building lights, creating a festive winter atmosphere.
Image source: Photo by Dominic Kurniawan Suryaputra on Unsplash

๐Ÿž๏ธ Things to Do (๋ณผ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ & ์ฆ๊ธธ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ)

Sapporo Odori Park Illumination โ€” Iconic winter light-up in central Sapporo.
์‚ฟํฌ๋กœ ์˜ค๋„๋ฆฌ ๊ณต์› ์ผ๋ฃจ๋ฏธ๋„ค์ด์…˜ โ€” ์‚ฟํฌ๋กœ ์ค‘์‹ฌ๋ถ€์˜ ๋Œ€ํ‘œ ๊ฒจ์šธ ๋ถˆ๋น› ์ถ•์ œ.

Otaru Canal Cruise โ€” Short boat rides offering magical snowy canal views.
์˜คํƒ€๋ฃจ ์šดํ•˜ ํฌ๋ฃจ์ฆˆ โ€” ์งง์€ ๋ณดํŠธ ์ฒดํ—˜์œผ๋กœ ์ฆ๊ธฐ๋Š” ๋ˆˆ ๋ฎ์ธ ์šดํ•˜ ํ’๊ฒฝ.

Sapporo Beer Museum โ€” Learn the history of Sapporo Beer and enjoy tastings.
์‚ฟํฌ๋กœ ๋งฅ์ฃผ ๋ฐ•๋ฌผ๊ด€ โ€” ์‚ฟํฌ๋กœ ๋งฅ์ฃผ์˜ ์—ญ์‚ฌ์™€ ์‹œ์Œ์„ ๋™์‹œ์— ์ฆ๊ธธ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๋ช…์†Œ.

๐Ÿ“Œ Recommended Itinerary (ํ•˜๋ฃจ ์ฝ”์Šค ์ถ”์ฒœ)

Morning โ€” Arrive in Otaru โ†’ Walk along the canal and visit glassware shops.
์˜ค์ „ โ€” ์˜คํƒ€๋ฃจ ๋„์ฐฉ โ†’ ์šดํ•˜ ์‚ฐ์ฑ…๊ณผ ์œ ๋ฆฌ ๊ณต์˜ˆ ์ƒ์  ํƒ๋ฐฉ.

Lunch โ€” Fresh sushi at Otaru Sushi Street.
์ ์‹ฌ โ€” ์˜คํƒ€๋ฃจ ์Šค์‹œ ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ์—์„œ ์‹ ์„ ํ•œ ์Šค์‹œ ๋ง›๋ณด๊ธฐ.

Afternoon โ€” Return to Sapporo โ†’ Explore Odori Park and nearby museums.
์˜คํ›„ โ€” ์‚ฟํฌ๋กœ๋กœ ๊ท€ํ™˜ โ†’ ์˜ค๋„๋ฆฌ ๊ณต์›๊ณผ ์ธ๊ทผ ๋ฐ•๋ฌผ๊ด€ ํƒ๋ฐฉ.

Evening โ€” Sapporo TV Tower night view with winter illumination.
์ €๋… โ€” ์‚ฟํฌ๋กœ TVํƒ€์›Œ์—์„œ ๊ฒจ์šธ ์ผ๋ฃจ๋ฏธ๋„ค์ด์…˜๊ณผ ์•ผ๊ฒฝ ๊ฐ์ƒ.

๐Ÿ’ก Travel Tips (์—ฌํ–‰ ํŒ)

Wear waterproof shoes โ€” snow can be deep and streets slippery.
๋ฐฉ์ˆ˜ ์‹ ๋ฐœ์„ ์ฐฉ์šฉํ•˜์„ธ์š” โ€” ๋ˆˆ์ด ๊นŠ๊ณ  ๋„๋กœ๊ฐ€ ๋ฏธ๋„๋Ÿฝ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Reserve hotels early in December โ€” rooms fill up quickly due to festivals.
12์›”์—๋Š” ํ˜ธํ…”์„ ๋ฏธ๋ฆฌ ์˜ˆ์•ฝํ•˜์„ธ์š” โ€” ์ถ•์ œ ์‹œ์ฆŒ์ด๋ผ ๊ฐ์‹ค์ด ๋นจ๋ฆฌ ๋งˆ๊ฐ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Use the Sapporo-Otaru Welcome Pass (approx. 1,700 JPY) for unlimited JR + subway rides in one day.
์‚ฟํฌ๋กœ-์˜คํƒ€๋ฃจ ์›ฐ์ปด ํŒจ์Šค(์•ฝ 1,700์—”)๋ฅผ ์ด์šฉํ•˜๋ฉด JRยท์ง€ํ•˜์ฒ ์„ ํ•˜๋ฃจ ๋™์•ˆ ๋ฌด์ œํ•œ ์ด์šฉํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Try regional sweets like Shiroi Koibito and LeTAO cheesecake in Otaru.
์˜คํƒ€๋ฃจ์—์„œ๋Š” ์‹œ๋กœ์ด์ฝ”์ด๋น„ํ† , ๋ฅดํƒ€์˜ค ์น˜์ฆˆ์ผ€์ดํฌ ๊ฐ™์€ ์ง€์—ญ ๋””์ €ํŠธ๋ฅผ ๊ผญ ๋ง›๋ณด์„ธ์š”.

A snowy street scene with a view of buildings, snow piles, and streetlights illuminating the path ahead, creating a cozy winter atmosphere.

Description: A snowy evening street in Otaru, with city lights stretching into the distance under a serene winter sky.
Image source: Photo by KWON YOUN on Unsplash

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A winter night scene along a canal, where a person stands against the snowy backdrop of old buildings, with people capturing the moment with their cameras.

Description: Snow-covered Otaru Canal during winter, with historic brick warehouses reflected in the still water under a clear blue sky.

Image source: Personal photo, edited with AI

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