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Description: Choose airport transport and your first Sapporo hotel, then compare a Jozankei day trip with a hot-spring overnight stay.

# Hokkaido without a car: Airport Arrival, Sapporo and Jozankei

Choose airport transport and your first Sapporo hotel, then compare a Jozankei day trip with a hot-spring overnight stay.

Choose airport transport and your first Sapporo hotel, then compare a Jozankei day trip with a hot-spring overnight stay.

Settle transport and check-in for your arrival day, then decide separately whether Jozankei deserves a day trip or a hot-spring night. These two guides cover Sapporo and Jozankei.

## Compare the last leg from the airport to the hotel

Compare Sapporo Station hotels with JR access and Odori or Susukino hotels with their actual airport-bus stops. The route to the hotel entrance with luggage matters more than the fastest advertised ride.

- [Allow time to reach the station](<https://tripfieldbook.com/en/japan/sapporo/new-chitose-airport-arrival-stay/#arrival>)
- [Compare the actual bus stop with the hotel entrance](<https://tripfieldbook.com/en/japan/sapporo/new-chitose-airport-arrival-stay/#bus>)

## Choose a Jozankei day trip or an overnight stay

Keeping a city hotel lets you consider a day trip without moving your luggage. For an evening at the hot springs, compare lodging, meals and shuttle reservations together, without assuming a fixed connection from your flight.

- [3-night, 4-day itinerary](<https://tripfieldbook.com/en/japan/sapporo/october-no-car-3n4d/#itinerary>)
- [Bus booking and transfers](<https://tripfieldbook.com/en/japan/sapporo/october-no-car-3n4d/#transport>)

## Give the first hotel and the hot-spring hotel different roles

Compare access to JR Tower Hotel Nikko Sapporo and Sapporo Grand Hotel for the airport and rail part of the trip. For a night in Jozankei, review the separate location, meals and shuttle conditions at Jozankei Daiichi Hotel Suizantei.

- [Choose the first hotel by access and check-in conditions](<https://tripfieldbook.com/en/japan/sapporo/new-chitose-airport-arrival-stay/#stay>)
- [City hotel or an onsen night](<https://tripfieldbook.com/en/japan/sapporo/october-no-car-3n4d/#stay>)

## Recheck operations for your travel date

Check reserved and non-reserved trains and current airport-bus stops before choosing the hotel. The autumn guide’s October foliage and event information does not guarantee park or bus operation in another season.

- [Work backwards from the required airport arrival](<https://tripfieldbook.com/en/japan/sapporo/new-chitose-airport-arrival-stay/#return>)
- [When to go](<https://tripfieldbook.com/en/japan/sapporo/october-no-car-3n4d/#season>)

- [JR Hokkaido](<https://www.jrhokkaido.co.jp/global/english/travel/airport.html>)
- [Hokuto Kotsu](<https://www.hokto.co.jp/en/sapporo-chitose/>)
- [Jozankei Tourism Association](<https://jozankei.jp/en/>)

## Guides to schedules, access and stays

- [![New Chitose Airport Station platform, 2010](<https://tripfieldbook.com/images/sapporo-airport-arrival-stay/airport-platform-1200.webp>)](<https://tripfieldbook.com/en/japan/sapporo/new-chitose-airport-arrival-stay/>)

  ### [New Chitose Airport to Sapporo: Train, Bus and Your First Hotel](<https://tripfieldbook.com/en/japan/sapporo/new-chitose-airport-arrival-stay/>)

  

  Hokkaido without a carSources checked 2026.10.29
- [![Futami Suspension Bridge in Jozankei and a valley in autumn colors](<https://tripfieldbook.com/images/sapporo-october/futami-bridge-1200.webp>)](<https://tripfieldbook.com/en/japan/sapporo/october-no-car-3n4d/>)

  ### [Sapporo in October Without a Car: 4 Days with a Jozankei Day Trip](<https://tripfieldbook.com/en/japan/sapporo/october-no-car-3n4d/>)

  

  Japan · Sapporo · Autumn itinerarySources checked 2026.10.04

Photo credits2

New Chitose Airport Station platform, 2010

Photo: [hequilizm](<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:New_Chitose_airport_Station_Platform.jpg>) · [CC BY 3.0](<https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/>)

Futami Suspension Bridge in Jozankei and a valley in autumn colors

Photo: [Jozankei Tourism Association](<https://jozankei.jp/photo/?category=137>)