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Niigata to Sapporo-Otaru

1 operator run this water, from 16 h 30. Sapporo-Otaru has an airport 31 km from the quay, so this is a crossing you can make one way and fly the other.

Every way across

One row per operator and speed. Where a service is sold as fast and its average does not clear 45 km/h, the word appears in quotation marks — the boat is fast craft, the crossing is not.

Shin Nihonkai Ferry Niigata → Sapporo-Otaru 607 km conventional crossing 16 h 30 rate not held 37 km/h average

Other ways to reach Sapporo-Otaru

If this crossing does not suit, these quays also reach Sapporo-Otaru without a change. It is the question a single-route page cannot answer about itself and an atlas can.

Maizuru – Sapporo-Otaru 20 h 55 Shin Nihonkai Ferry
Kobe-Osaka – Sapporo-Otaru 312 h 00 Lindblad Expeditions, Silversea Cruises
Seward – Sapporo-Otaru 336 h 00 Windstar Cruises
Anchorage AK – Sapporo-Otaru 480 h 00 Lindblad Expeditions
Keelung – Sapporo-Otaru 480 h 00 Hapag Lloyd Cruises
Hullo - Vancouver Ferry Terminal – Sapporo-Otaru 504 h 00 Hapag Lloyd Cruises, Windstar Cruises

And other ways to reach Niigata

Ryotsu – Niigata 2 h 30 Sado Kisen
Akita – Niigata 6 h 35 Shin Nihonkai Ferry
Tsuruga – Niigata 11 h 30 Shin Nihonkai Ferry
Tomakomai Higashi – Niigata not held Shin Nihonkai Ferry

Where else these quays go

Also from Niigata

Akita · Ryotsu · Tomakomai Higashi · Tsuruga

Also from Sapporo-Otaru

Anchorage AK · Hullo - Vancouver Ferry Terminal · Keelung · Kobe-Osaka · Maizuru · Seward

Which months this runs

Season not heldwe can say when we looked, not which months run

Our records for the Niigata–Sapporo-Otaru crossing were read on 11 August 2026 and describe the network as it ran that week. We hold no month-by-month variation, so this page cannot tell you whether a crossing runs in February.

If you are travelling well outside August 2026, confirm with the operator before you plan around it.

What we do not know

No fares. Not for this crossing, not for any crossing, not for any mode.

No departure times. No rate is held for this pair either, so we cannot say how often it runs.