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Kita Kita Film Locations in Hokkaido: Otaru Canal, Moerenuma Park & More | Japan Travel Guide

Written By Bianca S. Valerio on Sunday, Aug 20, 2017 | 04:35 AM

 
Explore the real Hokkaido locations behind the Philippine hit film "Kita Kita" β€” from the romantic Otaru Canal to Moerenuma Park, Sapporo's clock tower & beyond! πŸŽ¬πŸŒΈπŸ‡―πŸ‡΅ If "Kita Kita" made you fall in love with Hokkaido, this one's for you. Bianca takes you to 10 actual filming locations from the beloved Philippine rom-com β€” walking you through each spot, sharing what to expect when you visit, and sprinkling in some fun trivia along the way (did you know "Kita" in Japanese means North?). Think of it as your insider location scout, so you can plan your own Hokkaido itinerary around the film's most iconic scenes β€” from the flower fields of Biei and Shikisai no Oka to the buzzing Susukino district and the snow-dusted magic of Sapporo. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ πŸŽ₯ KITA KITA FILM LOCATIONS β€” HOKKAIDO, JAPAN ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ➀ Region: Hokkaido, Japan β€” primarily Sapporo, Otaru, and Biei ➀ Key locations featured: Otaru Canal, Moerenuma Park, Sapporo Clock Tower, Odori Park, Susukino, Biei, Shikisai no Oka (flower farm), Daisetsuzan area ➀ Best time to visit: Spring–summer for the flower fields (Biei/Shikisai no Oka); winter for Sapporo's famous Snow Festival ➀ Getting around: JR trains connect Sapporo, Otaru, and Biei β€” a Hokkaido Rail Pass is great value for covering all these locations in one trip ➀ Insider tip: The Otaru Canal is beautiful year-round but especially magical at dusk when the lanterns are lit β€” build in extra time to linger ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌿 ABOUT BIANCA VALERIO ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Bianca Valerio is an award-winning host (emcee/presenter) and multi-media artist from the Philippines. Her passion for travel and "education on the fly" inspired this channel β€” a mindfully curated space advocating for mental, emotional, and physical wellness in today's digital age and hustle culture. βœ… Subscribe for fresh weekly content: https://www.youtube.com/c/@BiancaValerio ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎬 MORE FROM BIANCA V TRAVELS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ πŸ‡―πŸ‡΅ Japan Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdbhr5DF8g8eWZG6Aq6zvAU4dOqWY-T3A 🍜 Food & Eats Playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdbhr5DF8g8ebbCR4l3VFR7_ehg4W5Yt0&si=XbG2DEKewJyp0edR ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌱 CONNECT WITH BIANCA ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Website: http://www.biancavalerio.com Profile: http://biancavalerio.com/about-bianca-valerio/ Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/bianca_valerio Facebook: http://m.me/BiancaValerioOfficial Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/bianca_valerio πŸ“© [email protected] Videos used: Kita Kita Trailer YouTube Movies https://youtu.be/pgbMrL9Y2gU Music: A-GON - Simplicity https://soundcloud.com/dj-a-gon https://twitter.com/alangonzaelz https://www.instagram.com/agondj/ https://www.facebook.com/agonmusic Say Good Night by Joakim Karud https://soundcloud.com/joakimkarud Creative Commons β€” Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported β€” CC BY-SA 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ Music provided by Audio Library https://youtu.be/SZkVShypKgM #KitaKita #HokkaidoJapan #SapporoJapan #OtaruCanal #BieiJapan #MoerenumaPark #PhilippineMovie #JapanTravel #SapporoClockTower #ShikisaiNoOka #PinoyRomCom #JapanTravelGuide #OdoriPark #EmpoyMarquez #FilipinoCinema