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Ranked shortlist · 10 of 467 cafes
Best cafes in Sapporo
The 10 most notable cafes in Sapporo, in rank order. The order is curation quality — how well attested and how complete each record is — not popularity, and no place on this list paid to be on it.
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1
PRONTO Sapporo Pole Town
Minami 3 Jonishi, 3 Chome さっぽろ地下街ポールタウン 内
107 m from Susukino Station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.230, percentile 100 of 467
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2
むさしの森珈琲札幌北野店
清田区北野3条3丁目2-6
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.228, percentile 99.79 of 467
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3
Kanon Pancakes
5 Chome-5-18 Kikusui 3 Jo
269 m from Higashi-Sapporo Station, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.225, percentile 99.57 of 467
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4
FAbULOUS
Minami 1 Johigashi, 2 Chome 1Ｆ
155 m from Bus Center-Mae Station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.222, percentile 99.36 of 467
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5
Cafe & Bar ROGA
Kita 7 Jonishi, 5 Chome−５−5
295 m from Sapporo Station, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.222, percentile 99.14 of 467
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すき家 札幌桑園店
中央区北11条西20丁目1-10
405 m from Sapporo Shijō Station, rail
listed by Microsoft and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.221, percentile 98.93 of 467
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7
Ritaru Coffee
Kita 3 Jonishi, 26 Chome−3−8 Ｎ２ビル 1F
138 m from Nishi-Nijūhatchōme Station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.221, percentile 98.71 of 467
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すき家 札幌ポールタウン店
中央区南3条西3-10 さっぽろ地下街ポ-ルタウン内
50 m from Susukino Station, metro
listed by Microsoft and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.220, percentile 98.5 of 467
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9
Suvaco
3 Chome-4-1 Kawazoe 11 Jo
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.220, percentile 98.28 of 467
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10
CAFE de ROMAN Moiwa
2 Chome-2-47 Moiwashita
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.220, percentile 98.07 of 467
How this list is made
Every place in this group was scored by the same model, with each term z-normalised inside the group and capped, so a famous chain cannot win by being famous everywhere. The weights, verbatim:
- attestation by independent providers
- +0.35
- record completeness (website, phone, address)
- +0.25
- Overture existence confidence
- +0.20
- Michelin designation (Wikidata, CC0)
- +0.40
- brand fame (Wikidata sitelinks)
- −0.15
- same-name chain collision
- −0.30
Curation quality, not popularity: how well attested and how complete a record is.
No licensable popularity signal; this ranks curation quality, not taste
Independent check: 5,951 places listed in Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA 4.0; validation only, never published or scored) were matched to our records by name within 250 m. Across the 5,651 that fall in groups of at least 10, the median matched place sits at percentile 73 and 24.2% are in the top decile, against 10% by chance; five families have enough anchors to report (arts, food and drink, lodging, shopping, sport), while health care (5), lifestyle services (17), travel (26) have too few and are not validated. A match needs both the guide and the catalogue to name the same place, which favours well-attested places — a term this rank itself rewards — so these are lower bounds; Michelin's 528 in-group anchors have a median percentile of 100, but that is partly circular: across the Wikivoyage matches, the 17 that also carry the designation term this rank scores sit at 99.93, against 72.55 for the 5,934 without it.
The catalogue carries no rating, review count, price or opening hours, so this file has none.
Station locations from Wikidata (CC0-1.0). Nearest station, not service: no frequency, timetable or departures.
Nobody paid for placement: no ads, no sponsored results, no ratings for sale.
Data: AllThePlaces (CC0-1.0), BrightQuery (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), DAC (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Foursquare Open Source Places (Apache-2.0), Meta (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Microsoft (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), PinMeTo (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), RenderSEO (CDLA-Permissive-2.0).