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Stories Set in Sapporo

Stories Set in Sapporo — top stories

Sapporo is Japan's northern center on the Ishikari Plain, a grid-planned town of parks, beer halls and snow streets. Meiji officials laid it out in the 1870s to settle Hokkaido, importing farmers and breweries, which explains its frontier grid and winter-festival stories. A Wild Sheep Chase and Dance Dance Dance wander through that northern strangeness. Open Sapporo on the StoryTerra map and filter its stories by any era.

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5 famous stories set in Sapporo

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Browse 2 books and 3 games set in Sapporo.

Persona 5 Strikers

Persona 5 Strikers

game

Persona 5 Scramble is a crossover between Koei Tecmo's hack and slash Dynasty Warriors series and Atlus's turn-based role-playing game Persona series. As a result, it features gameplay elements from both, such as the…

Setting: Tokyo,Japan; Osaka,Japan; Sapporo,Japan; Sendai,Japan; Nagoya,Japan; Fukuoka,Japan; Shibuya, Tokyo,JapanTime Period: 2020
Yakuza 5 Remastered

Yakuza 5 Remastered

game

Experience the fifth chapter of the Kazuma Kiryu saga in 1080p and 60fps. Get ready for a Yakuza experience of unprecedented scale! Follow five characters across five Japanese cities, each trying to achieve their dream.…

Setting: Fukuoka,Japan; Osaka,Japan; Sapporo,Japan; Tokyo,Japan; Hiroshima,JapanTime Period: 2019
A Wild Sheep Chase

A Wild Sheep Chase

by Haruki Murakami, Alfred Birnbaum (Translator)
book

His life was like a recurring nightmare: a train to nowhere. But an ordinary life has a way of taking an extraordinary turn. Add a girl whose ears are so exquisite that, when uncovered, they improve sex a thousand-fold,…

Setting: ['Tokyo (Japan)', 'Sapporo (Japan)', 'Hokkaido (Japan)', 'Junitaki (Japan)']Time Period: 1982
Dance Dance Dance

Dance Dance Dance

by Haruki Murakami
book

Alternate cover edition here.High-class call girls billed to Mastercard. A psychic 13-year-old dropout with a passion for Talking Heads. A hunky matinee idol doomed to play dentists and teachers. A one-armed…

Setting: ['Tokyo (Japan)', 'Sapporo (Japan)', 'Honolulu, Hawaii (United States)']Time Period: 1988
Yakuza 5

Yakuza 5

game

Yakuza 5 is an open world action-adventure game and the fifth main title in the Yakuza series developed by Sega. For the first time in the series, it features five settings across Japan along with five playable main…

Setting: Tokyo,Japan; Osaka,Japan; Nagoya,Japan; Fukuoka,Japan; Sapporo,JapanTime Period: Contemporary

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