Travel Destinations in Hokkaido

Jozankei Onsen

Sapporo's Own Hot Spring Town, an Hour by Bus, With Kappa Statues and a Red Bridge Over the Gorge

Jozankei is inside Sapporo's city limits, in the mountains of Minami-ku, about an hour from Sappo...

Rebun Island

Rebun Island: Flower Trails at the Far End of the Wakkanai Ferry

A long, low island west of Wakkanai, reached only by a ferry of about two hours. From late May to...

Michi-no-Eki Shikabe Kanketsusen Koen

A geyser, a footbath and seafood you steam yourself

A roadside station on Route 278 in Shikabe, built beside a hot-spring geyser that goes off roughl...

Odori Park

A 1.5 km Strip of Lawn Through Sapporo That Hosts the Snow Festival

A park about 1.5 km long and 7.8 ha in area that runs west from the Sapporo TV Tower through 12 c...

Michi-no-Eki Niseko View Plaza

Farm stalls under Mount Yotei

Where Route 5 meets the Iwanai–Toya road in Niseko, local farmers sell their own vegetables besid...

Michi-no-Eki Mashu Onsen

A hot-spring footbath and trip planning between Lake Mashu and Lake Akan

Teshikaga's roadside station sits close to where Routes 241, 243 and 391 meet, which makes it the...

Mount Moiwa

A Ropeway and Mini Cable Car to Sapporo's Night View at 531 m

A 531 m forested hill on the south-west edge of Sapporo, reached by a ropeway and then the small ...

Moerenuma Park

Isamu Noguchi's Last Design, a Whole Park Built on a Landfill

A 188.8-hectare park in northeast Sapporo built to Isamu Noguchi's master plan on top of a former...

Lake Kussharo

Dig Your Own Hot Bath on the Beach at Japan's Largest Caldera Lake

Japan's largest caldera lake, about 80 square kilometres, in Akan-Mashu National Park. At Sunayu ...

Lake Mashu

A 212 m Deep Caldera You Can Only See From the Rim, Fog Permitting

A caldera lake 212 m deep, walled in by cliffs up to 350 m high, that you look down on from obser...

Lake Shikotsu

Japan's Second-Deepest Lake, 55 Minutes by Bus From New Chitose

A caldera lake about 360 m deep, the second deepest in Japan, and clear enough that the shallows ...

Matsumae Castle

Hokkaido’s northern frontier history comes into focus at Matsumae Castle, where an original gate ...

Kushiro Shitsugen National Park

Japan's Largest Wetland, Seen from the Hosooka Lookout at Sunset

About 22,000 hectares of reed and sedge marsh north of Kushiro, Japan's largest wetland and a nat...

Michi-no-Eki Ryuhyo Kaido Abashiri

The drift-ice boat pier at the Abashiri River mouth

A harborside station at the mouth of the Abashiri River that doubles as the boarding point for th...

Goryokaku Fort

Hakodate’s star-shaped fortress marks Japan’s encounter with Western military design at the end o...