Where to Stay in Sapporo: 2 Hotels I Tried

In Sapporo, the easiest place to stay is close to an exit of Sapporo, Odori or Susukino Station. The three stations sit in a north–south line, so you can walk between all of them. Sapporo Station is closest for the airport and day trips, and Susukino is closest for food and shopping. For a family of three, the triple room at Bespoke Hotel right by Odori Station was great value, and for two, Sotetsu Fresa Inn in Susukino.

I stayed at both on a five-day trip with my parents in September 2025. With three people, two double rooms add up fast, and hotels with triple rooms are rarer than you'd think, so picking a place was the hardest part of planning.

Which area to stay in Sapporo

An underground passage links Sapporo Station to Susukino, so getting around was easy even on snowy days. If you stay on the Susukino side, though, it's a bit far to walk from Sapporo Station, and taking the subway one stop is the better call. Being close to a station exit mattered most.

For a family of three: Bespoke Hotel triple room

Bespoke Hotel is one crosswalk from Exit 35 of Odori Station. You can walk to Susukino Station, and Sapporo Station was about 15 minutes on foot. In September 2025 we paid about $130 a night for the triple room with breakfast, or about $85 without. A king room for two was about $70, or $100 with breakfast. It's popular and rooms go quickly, so book early, especially for winter, when Sapporo hotel prices climb.

Check-in is at 3 p.m. and check-out at 11 a.m. I handed my passport to the front desk and was checked in right away. Luggage storage is free before and after your stay, so timing wasn't an issue. The main door is locked from midnight to 5 a.m., and you tap your room key to get in.

The triple room has two beds by the window and a slightly smaller one against the wall. It's like a standard twin with a single bed where the desk would be, but it didn't feel cramped for three adults, and we could keep two suitcases open on the floor. There are outlets and USB ports at the head of each bed, and pajamas, slippers and towels for all three of us. The downsides: no large public bath, and the TV doesn't do YouTube or Netflix. There are coin laundry machines and a 24-hour microwave on the 13th floor.

I'd definitely add breakfast. It's on the second floor from 7 to 10 a.m. (last entry 9:30), served Japanese home-style with each side dish in its own little bowl, and there was lots of seafood like salmon roe, salmon sashimi and raw sweet shrimp. My dad doesn't eat seafood and still had a solid meal of tempura, meat and soup curry. We left early most mornings for tours to Biei or Otaru, so eating at the hotel made life easier. Outside breakfast hours, the second floor works as a lounge from 11 a.m. to midnight, which is handy for an evening snack if the room starts to feel small.

Budget pick for two: Sotetsu Fresa Inn Susukino

The other hotel from the same trip was Sotetsu Fresa Inn near Susukino Station. Susukino is the city's main dining and nightlife district, so the location was convenient. As of November 2025, a double room for two was about $50 a night, or about $65 with breakfast, which is cheap by Japanese hotel standards.

Check-in is at a self-service kiosk, but when I tried it myself, a staff member came over to help. The building has 13 floors, with a restaurant and lockers on the first floor and a laundry room, ice machine and microwave on the second. Amenities aren't in the room. They're set out in front of the lobby on the first floor, and you take as many as you need. You can leave your bags before check-in and after check-out.

Sapporo's main sights are lined up along those three stations, so as long as our hotel was close to a station exit, we could walk almost everywhere.