Ranked shortlist · 10 of 49 travel and transportation
Best travel and transportation in Sapporo
The 10 most notable travel and transportation 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
麻生駅 (Asabu Sta.) (N01)
北区北40条西5丁目
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.590, percentile 100 of 49
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2
北海道中央バス 月寒営業所
豊平区月寒東1条19丁目3-50
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.567, percentile 97.92 of 49
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3
北海道中央バス平岡営業所
清田区平岡3条1丁目1-20
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.548, percentile 95.83 of 49
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4
虹色トラベル
手稲区曙2条3丁目2-47
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.529, percentile 93.75 of 49
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5
北海道中央バス株式会社札幌北営業所
東区北49条東2丁目1-1
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.98 · rank score 2.497, percentile 91.67 of 49
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6
北海道中央バス 西岡営業所
豊平区西岡491
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.98 · rank score 2.497, percentile 89.58 of 49
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7
中央バス東営業所
東区東苗穂2条3
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 2.363, percentile 87.5 of 49
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8
地下鉄 琴似駅 (T03)
西区琴似1条4
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.323, percentile 85.42 of 49
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9
中島公園駅 (Nakajima Koen Sta.) N09
中央区南9条西4丁目
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website and an address · Overture confidence 0.98 · rank score 2.186, percentile 83.33 of 49
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10
中央区役所前停留場 (Sc03)
中央区南1条西10丁目
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website and an address · Overture confidence 0.98 · rank score 2.159, percentile 81.25 of 49
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.
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).