IHG Hotels & Resorts will open InterContinental Sapporo in late 2025, in partnership with AXA Life Insurance Company. Located in central Sapporo, the new hotel will occupy the upper floors (9th to 14th) of a mixed-use development known as the AXA Sapporo Nakajima Park Project. It will be IHG’s first luxury property in Sapporo, fifth hotel in Hokkaido, and eleventh InterContinental-branded hotel in Japan.