sapporo winter sports museum

This was a great day out. The chair lift to the top of the ski jump was good and the view from the top scary, for a ski jumper, and impressive.The Museum was very informative with great interactive games for young and old., a lot of fun.A nice shop for the nicnacs to take home and a good little coffee shop for a snack.Very clean, inside and out.

We went here on new years day and it was not crowed at all. The main attraction of this place is the interactive exhibits where u can act out sports like the ski jump, bobsled and speed skate. It was fun, but once you're past that there's not mch else.

The museum is not big and it's quite dated. The sports simulators aren't as exciting as they look. Overall, it's a waste of time. Rather, pay the money to go up the chairlift on top of the ski jump.

I went to winter sports museum just after my visit to Mt. Okura Observatory which is very close to museum. Actually I advise you to buy the lift's and the museum's tickets together. Because if you buy them seperately it costs 1100 yens but if you buy them together it costs 1000 yen. And the museum was very different and interesting. In first floor there was memorials of 1972 Sapporo winter olympics. In the other floors you can find some simulators about winter sports. And I think you should participate all of them. It was very amusing. The big ski jumping simulator is the best. And the staff was very friendly and they will show you how simulators work. Especially when I visited the museum, there were some families with children having lots of fun.

Everything about this place was fantastic. Great fun experiences to be had for children and for adults. Do not miss.

It's a nice place to experience and understand winter sports like ski jumping, bobsledding, skiing, and speed skating, especially for folks like us coming from tropical countries. You get to experience a bit of it through the simulators. Not a whole lot of people in the museum, so you can try the different simulators without having to wait.

I was a bit disappointed in this place. It's quite a trek to get there, metro, bus then walk.None of the displays are in English, which was a surprise as there's an English language flyer!That makes the 1000yen ticket (with chair lift ride to the top of the ski jump) quite expensive for me! Although the view of sapporo from the top was nice.Also the displays are quite dated. There's no modern ski equipment on display, and the electronic experience rides are a bit lame.All in all, not worth the trip unless you have a day spare and are a winter sports enthusiast, and to be honest for the money I'd rather go get drunk somewhere (would be more fun )A nice surprise on the way home, was that the next bus to the station was in 20mins so I decided to walk along the snowy streets, which turned out to be a nice walk an I also stumbled upon the Hokkaido shrine which looked cool all covered in snow!

Wakanai,Sapporo,Akita.For the return to Sapporo I changed to a one train complete trip which cut out the local trains and gave me the up market model but I was happy to have tried the local ones. A few things I forget to mention about Wakkanai was that many shops including the Post Office was open on the Sunday, at the lights because of the snow when the lights change a buzzer sounds in case of a 'white out'. I also noted that some streets has music playing from the tops of lamp posts!No large cars mainly small 4 doors. Taxis are all one company and they drive around all the time, maybe they would freeze up if the engine was turned off or the drivers would freeze, they are all Toyota ? Could not see the name as they were covered with snow. Dogs are taken for very fast walks!! I saw a rubbish truck come along and by the time the driver had thrown the bags in the back and got in the drivers seats a flock of black crows had desended on the bags and were ripping them open. It must be hard on the bird life up there.This train has heated seats in base and back and also heated foot rail to dry and warm the feet.Its a four hour ride from Sapporo to Hakodate. Many bikes in stands at the station, do they have studded tyres. Saw a golden fox just standing in a white field close to the rails, maybe waiting for the threat to pass.The next train had dark blue leather seats with pale pinewood arms etc and again all nice and warm.This section includes the underwater tunnel between islands......just dont think about it! All doors between carriages open when you touch them.This night I stayed at the Comfort Hotel in Akita. It is a business hotel so every thing you need without too much space. Down the street in front of the station easy to find and fast check-in. Clean,warm and being on the 10th floor......all windows are firmly sealed!Today starts my journey down the west coast, Japan Sea, with the snow down to the high tide mark.I went into the booking office and reserve my seat for the next three days and today I am the only one in first class. This train is more for the locals than tourists I would say as the facilities are not to the high standard experienced until now ie using a 'squatter' toilet on a moving train!A 4 minute train change did fasten the heart! So when the hostess came with her trolley I asked for a cold drink and was offered a can of 'Pocari Sweat', it tastes ok but reads on the side 'that it replaces close to that of human body fluid' on reading that I instantly thought of an undertaker!!I have not seen any graffitti which is good but there seems to be many barber shops. Light wieght trees have a centre pole planted through them with strings coming off it like a 'maypole which supports the branches with the weight of the snow.Arriving at Kanazawa was another spectacular station with huge covered glass entry. Here I had booked for three nights into the Pongy Hostel. This is one I would strongly recommend to anyone wanting a quiet,clean,friendly and close to the station hostel. It is run by a retired monk and two lovely ladies, who have good English. The bunks with plenty of head room for ladies are upstairs and the men down. Drapes around so you can read at night and not disturb others. Really comfortable and free internet. The building is 120 years old and used to be a Kimono shop. Genuine walls floor etc. When they confirm your booking you will receive colour photos emailed of each corner you will come to when walking from the station, a great help indeed. Small supermarket on the corner.Because of the massive snow delivery the train was a little late into Osaka so I had two hours to wait which is not really a problem if you like shopping. There appears to be six floors above and seven floors underground and all high class shops. I stopped for a coffee and there was no sugar but pots of 'gum syrup'!There are 9 people in line for this train and 8 of them have their heads bowed over their phones and 1 old man looking around! Because of missing the previous train, I will need to get off this one at Kamigori and change to another on a private line costing an extra $40nz and then from Chizu to Tottori back onto JR Lines. In fact I stay in the same seat all the way but have to pay for the train using the section of line belonging to the other company.

市内観光ツアーで参加しました。大倉山競技場にあり、札幌五輪の展示やウインタースポーツのバーチャル体験ができます。どのコーナーもとても楽しくてあっという間に時間が過ぎてしまい、もう一度来たいと思いました。

ミュージアムというと展示中心に思われるかもしれませんが、ここはスポーツが体験できるところです。かなり楽しめました。フィギュアスケートのスピンを体験できるものもあるのですが、ものすごい目が回りますので、気をつけて体験して下さい。

大倉山ジャンプ台の麓にあります。中には札幌オリンピックの記録映像や当時の道具たちが展示されています。ウィンタースポーツを、体験できる施設もありジャンプやアイスホッケーのキーパー、クロスカントリー、スピードスケートなどがバーチャルで体験できます。子供向けな感じですが意外と楽しめました。

体験ゾーンが楽しめました。メインはジャンプ台の映像に向かって、足を開いたり閉じたりして距離を測るもの、他にはジャンプの踏切りのタイミングを試すもの、リュージュ、フィギュアのスピン、等々盛りだくさんでした。展示物は札幌オリンピックにちなんだものや、葛西選手まで。皇族のスキー板などもありました。

冬季オリンピックの歴史や札幌オリンピックの展示から、割と最近のスキージャンプ原田選手・舟木選手、スピードスケートの清水選手など有名選手のユニフォームや使用していたギアを展示してあります。また、ウインタースポーツを体験できるゲームコーナーなどもあって、大画面でスキージャンプも体験できます。

1972年、笠谷選手の金メダルを昨日のように思い出す。。。という人には是非おすすめ。札幌のウインタースポーツの歴史がよくわかる博物館である。すすきのの若いホステスに「え～札幌でオリンピックやったのぉ、知らな～い」といわれショックを受けた私は、東京からの友人を案内し、大倉山のジャンプ台頂上の眺めを楽しんだあと、このミュージアムを訪れた。いろんな体験コーナーも楽しいが、古いスキー道具などの展示物に目が釘付けでした。

北海道と言えば、ウインタースポーツ！雪国ですからこれはもうお約束。もちろん札幌もウインタースポーツが盛んな土地。毎年冬になると数々のスキージャンプ大会が行われます。この会場ともなる大倉山シャンツエのお隣にこんなミュージアムがあります。その名も札幌ウィンタースポーツミュージアム！もともとは中島公園に冬のスポーツ博物館というのがあって、こぢんまり系のちっちゃな資料館だったんですけど、宮の森への移転を機にグレードアップして本格的なミュージアムになりました。スキーやスケート、冬季オリンピックに関する資料展示をはじめ、選手なりきり系の疑似体験コーナーなど、なかなか面白いものが多く、とても楽しめます。カフェも併設されてるのがありがたいですね。ココのソフトクリームは美味しいですよ。