WA-WA-’S

About

Set on Hokkaido, WA-WA-’S is a local business. Its address, 6 Chome-9-20 Utsukushigaoka 3 Jo, Kiyota Ward, Sapporo, Hokkaido 004-0813, Japan, places it in a residential ward on the south-eastern edge of Sapporo.

Visitors give WA-WA-’S a rating of 3.6 out of 5 from 182 reviews, a middling score that reflects steady local custom rather than a tourist following. Sapporo is the largest city on Hokkaido and is served by rail and air links to the rest of Japan, so the café is reachable from the main towns and resorts on the island. It operates as a café, open Monday to Sunday and public holidays from 10:00 to 20:00, with a website at https://wa-wa-s.com/ and five photos showing the interior.

Kiyota Ward lies away from the centre of Sapporo, and the café sits within a quiet residential district rather than a commercial strip. Trains link Japan's four main islands through tunnels and bridges, while ferries and aircraft serve smaller ones. Japan is an archipelago of several thousand islands stretching from Hokkaido in the north to Okinawa in the south.

Hokkaido is the northernmost of the main islands, with cold winters that bring heavy snow and short, mild summers. Shinto shrines and Buddhist temples stand throughout Japan, sometimes within the same grounds. Typhoons approach Japan mainly between August and September, most often striking the southern islands, so Hokkaido is less affected than the rest of the country. Sapporo is a practical base for reaching Otaru, Furano and Niseko.