Sapporo Audio Tour: Landmarks and Legends Audio Journey

Explore Sapporo at your own pace

A city of neon dreams and snow-laced secrets, Sapporo hides stories behind glass towers and on airwaves whispering from FM NORTH WAVE. Under the shadow of the soaring JR Tower, scandals have simmered and silent power struggles shaped the city's modern heartbeat.

This is your audio-guided ticket to Sapporo's unseen side. Discover tales that most travelers rush past in search of bright lights and shopping plazas.

What hidden message was once smuggled over FM NORTH WAVE's airwaves during a late-night broadcast? Who engineered the political showdown that shook Sapporo from the observation deck high above the skyline? And what strange item disappeared without a trace from the heart of JR Tower, baffling investigators for years?

Photo: Tomo M, Unsplash

Tour details

• Duration: 1 hour 4 minutes, entirely at your own pace
• Distance: around 2.2 km (1.4 miles)
• Stops: 13 landmarks, including JR Tower, Sapporo JR Tower, Sapporo Esta
• Audio: up to 33 minutes of narration
• Starts at: JR Tower

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How it works

• Book here and a redemption code arrives by email within minutes.
• Buying for a group? Choose one ticket per person: you get one code that works on every phone in your group.
• Download the free AudaTours app on your phone and enter the code.
• Download the tour once and the whole thing works offline.
• Walk to the first stop and press play. The audio for each landmark starts automatically as you approach it, so your phone can stay in your pocket.

There is no fixed date and no start time. The date you pick at checkout does not matter, and the tour stays on your phone permanently, so you can use it whenever you next visit and walk it again as often as you like.

What is included

• Professionally narrated audio that plays automatically at each stop
• An interactive map showing the walking route between landmarks
• Full offline access once downloaded, so you need no data or signal
• Freedom to start, pause and resume whenever you like
• Lifetime access - your code never expires

Photo: Pavita J, Unsplash

Where you will stop

• JR Tower
• Sapporo JR Tower
• Sapporo Esta
• Aiba
• FM NORTH WAVE
• Tsuchiya Home

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What is AudaTours?

AudaTours turns a walk through a city into a story. Our guides bring landmarks to life with the history, the scandals and the detail you would never get from a plaque.

• Immersive: real stories about the places in front of you, not a dry commentary
• Offline: download once and use it with no data, anywhere
• At your own pace: start, pause and resume whenever you want
• Accurate: every story is built from verified historical sources and checked before release

Good to know

• This is a self-guided audio tour on your own phone. There is no in-person guide.
• It does not include entry to any building or site along the route.
• The landmarks on the tour are not affiliated with AudaTours.
• You need a smartphone with Android 7.0 or later, or iOS 16 or later.
• Bring headphones and start with a charged phone.

Who it suits

Solo travellers, couples, families and small groups who would rather explore on their own schedule than follow a guide and a fixed departure time. It suits a first visit, and it suits anyone who has already seen the famous sights and wants to know what actually happened in them.

Image credits

Photos: Tomo M, Pavita J, Y K, Mike Kilcoyne, Deric Yu (Unsplash); AudaTours.