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Abashiri, Okhotsk, the northern part of Hokkaido, is well known for its harmony with rich nature. This area is a paradise for the visitors who love delicious local food and exciting adventures.
Since its close location to three national parks, Shiretoko known as the World Natural Heritage Site, Akan-Mashu, Daisetsuzan, the city of Abashiri attracts lots of tourists every year thanks to its rich nature and plays a central part of the Abashiri Quasi-National Park. Abashiri also offers the natural habitats for wildlife including White-tailed Sea Eagles and Steller’s Sea Eagles.
Native northern people used to live here about 1300 years ago because of its good location for fishing and farming. People have been enjoying delicious seafood such as salmon, crabs, scallops, and fresh agricultural produce, such as wheat, vegetables, and dairy products.
You can enjoy excellent cuisine here with fresh ingredients from salmon farming and organic vegetables locally grown in cold climate here.
We can offer you wonderful adventure tours here, for example cycling, kayaking in the lake during the green season and kayaking close to drift ice in the Okhotsk Sea, snowshoeing viewing ice fall at the Cape Notoro, ice fishing, fat biking in winter season.
We try to combine great food here and a variety of hands-on activities.
Please come and enjoy it!
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Abashiri Quasi-National Park, Lake Abashiri
Lake Abashiri, located in the eastern part of Hokkaido, straddles Abashiri City and Ozora Town. You can see gorgeous views of the Okhotsk Sea, Lake Abashiri, Lake Notoro and Abashiri River flowing into the sea from the top of the Mt. Tento. Lake Abashiri, one of the most popular spots in the park, has rich nature surrounded by a variety of broadleaved trees such as Mizunara or Querus mongolica, Hannoki or Alnus japonica and Yachidamo or Fraxinus mandshurica around the lake.
In spring, you can enjoy viewing a large scale of a colony of skunk cabbages blooming in the wetlands. Also, you can see gorgeous views of White-tailed eagles, a natural monument, and other birds like herons, kingfishers, and many kinds of ducks. They ae so beautiful!
In winter, the lake is completely frozen and very crowded with people to enjoy ice fishing there.
Okhotsk Culture
It is said that approximately 1300 years ago (The Yayoi Era in Japanese history), the Moyoro people, one of the northern minorities, migrated from the north to this region. They traveled south on kayaks and sometimes crossed drift ice in search of abundant natural resources, and finally reached this area.
They had a unique lifestyle known as the Okhotsk culture. At that time, they created a very rich food culture using fresh seafood like salmon, oysters, clams locally caught and agricultural produce like barley roasted or boiled.
These were found in the ruins called the Moyoro Shell Mound at the mouth of the Abashiri River.
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