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Ranked shortlist · 10 of 52 train stations
Best train stations in Sapporo
The 10 most notable train stations 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
南郷18丁目駅 (Nango18-chome Sta.) T16
白石区南郷通18丁目南
14 m from Nangō-Jūhatchōme Station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.730, percentile 100 of 52
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2
地下鉄二十四軒駅
西区八軒1条東4-1-69
86 m from Nijūyon-Ken Station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.98 · rank score 2.481, percentile 98.04 of 52
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3
地下鉄 福住駅
豊平区福住
115 m from Fukuzumi Station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 2.381, percentile 96.08 of 52
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4
平和駅 (H04)
白石区北郷1条12丁目
63 m from Heiwa Station, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.343, percentile 94.12 of 52
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5
西四丁目電停
中央区南1条西4
148 m from Ōdōri Station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.314, percentile 92.16 of 52
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6
新琴似駅
北区新琴似８条１丁目
0 m from Shin-Kotoni Station, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 2.297, percentile 90.2 of 52
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7
西15丁目停留場 (Sc04)
中央区南1条西14丁目
432 m from Nishi-Jūhatchōme Station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website and an address · Overture confidence 0.98 · rank score 2.265, percentile 88.24 of 52
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8
札幌市営地下鉄 中島公園駅
中央区南9条西4丁目
80 m from Nakajima-Kōen Station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website and an address · Overture confidence 0.98 · rank score 2.239, percentile 86.27 of 52
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9
発寒中央駅
西区発寒１０条３丁目１
88 m from Hassamu-Chūō Station, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.96 · rank score 2.227, percentile 84.31 of 52
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10
琴似駅 (Jr北海道)
西区琴似2条1丁目1
0 m from Kotoni Station, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.96 · rank score 2.213, percentile 82.35 of 52
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).