Hokkaido, Ezo, Yezo

the second larges of the four main islands of Japan; north of Honshu

• island — a land mass (smaller than a continent) that is surrounded by water

• Sapporo — a commercial city in northern Japan on western Hokkaido

• Japan, Japanese Islands, Japanese Archipelago — a string of more than 3,000 islands east of Asia extending 1,300 miles between the Sea of Japan and the western Pacific Ocean