Sapporo Science Center

This guide to the Sapporo Science Center centers on the planetarium's live narrators, staff who talk unscripted for fifty minutes under an eighteen-meter dome, describing the actual sky outside rather than reading from a recorded track. You'll hear how the center's identity rests on the differences between narrators, some drawn to astrophysics, others to the poet Miyazawa Kenji, and why regulars here pick favorites much as they might for a walking-tour guide. It also visits the museum's other engine room downstairs, an artificial snow chamber built to recreate the mechanics of a real snow cloud.