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...
Okushiri Island
A Sea Urchin Island Rebuilt After the 1993 Tsunami
An island 84 km around, 61 km off Esashi in the Sea of Japan, known for sea urchin, clear water a...
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 ...
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 ...
Michi-no-Eki Nakasatsunai
Beans, eggs and Tokachi chicken south of Obihiro
A spread-out station on Route 236 in a farming village south of Obihiro, with a free bean museum,...
Michi-no-Eki Obira Nishin Banya
A herring fishermen's lodge on the Sea of Japan coast
A stop on Route 232, the Oronro Line, roughly halfway between Sapporo and Wakkanai. Next door sta...
Michi-no-Eki Nanairo Nanae
Apple sweets in the town where Japan first grew Western apples
A 2018 roadside station on Route 5 just north of Hakodate, about ten minutes by car from Shin-Hak...
Kamuiwakka Hot Falls
Kamuiwakka Hot Falls: Wading Up a Warm, Acidic River in Shiretoko
A river in Shiretoko National Park that runs warm because hot spring water from Mount Io feeds it...
Hakodate Orthodox Church
The White Church Where Orthodoxy in Japan Began, on the Motomachi Slopes
A white-walled, green-roofed Russian Byzantine church on the site of the Russian consulate chapel...