# Hokkaido Shimbun

> Regional daily newspaper for Hokkaido

Market: Japan
Main language: ja
Traffic rank (Tranco): #33,274
Kind of site: newspaper
Topics: News
Last updated: 2026-08-30

## Best for
- awareness · local business (high): Regional newspaper reporting across Sapporo, Asahikawa and Hakodate, so Hokkaido businesses reach local readers.
- awareness · travel (medium): Covers tourism and local events across Hokkaido, a fit for travel and regional tourism promotion.

## About
Original reporting from across Hokkaido including Sapporo, Asahikawa and Hakodate, from politics and business to weather, disasters and road conditions.

Hokkaido Shimbun is a digital newspaper publishing original news from across Hokkaido's regions, including Sapporo, Asahikawa, Hakodate, Otaru-Shiribeshi, Sorachi, Tomakomai-Hidaka, Muroran-Iburi, Kushiro-Nemuro and Obihiro-Tokachi. Coverage spans politics, economy, society, weather and disasters, climate change, nature, Ainu affairs, sport including the Fighters and Consadole teams, and culture including film, music, literature and shogi and go. Recent local stories cover a hotel-building boom in Otaru aimed at day-trip tourists, an AI-assisted newsletter project in Sorachi, a fossil-themed accommodation package in Makubetsu, and a swimming relay medal won by a Sapporo-born athlete at the Asian Games.

Its sales house is named as FourM Inc.

## Links

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Website: https://www.hokkaido-np.co.jp/
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