Subway Sapporo: diagram, photo, description
The construction of the subway in Japan's Sapporo was timed to coincide with the 1972 Winter Olympics, which the city hosted. The first branch was commissioned in 1971. Today, the Sapporo subway has three routes with a total length of 48 kilometers. At least 210 million passengers annually use Sapporo metro services, for whose needs 49 stations are equipped..
The very first line of the Sapporo subway to work is indicated on the diagrams in bright green. It is called Namboku, has the letter N and is 14.3 kilometers long. There are 16 stations on the "green" line, two of which are interchange stations. The Namboku branch connects the northern and southern regions of Sapporo with its central part.
The route number 2 of the Sapporo subway is marked in orange and denoted on the diagram by the letter T. It stretches 20 kilometers from the northwest outskirts through the city center to the southeast. At 20 stations of the "orange" line, you can go to the city and change to surface transport, and at two of them you can switch to other Sapporo metro lines.
The 12 stations of the third line of Sapporo subway allow you to get to the desired areas in the northeast and southeast of the city. This branch is marked in blue and the letter H and is called Toho. Its length exceeds 13.5 kilometers. She was put into operation most of the last in 1988..
Sapporo Subway Tickets
The fare on the Sapporo Subway is paid at the ticket machines at the stations. The vending machine menu also contains the English version, as well as the schemes with the names of the stops. Tickets must be activated at pick-up terminals and kept until the end of the trip.
