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Cape Kiritappu

Cape Kiritappu is located at the eastern end of the Kiritappu Peninsula. The cape juts out into th…

• Kushiro, Lake Akan, Lake Mashu, Nemuro

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Imomochi(potato rice cake)

Imomochi is a traditional home-cooked snack that emerged in Hokkaido when settlers began arriving …

• Sapporo/Jozankei

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Mount Usu and Mount Nishiyama Base Crater Walkway

Traverse Mount Usu and Mount Nishiyama’s Base Crater Walkway to see a site frozen in March 2…

• Area around Toya, Noboribetsu, and Hidaka

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Hakodate jiyu ichiba

Hakodate is famous for the morning market in front of the station, but this market is where profes…

• Hakodate, area around Hakodate

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Rusutsu Resort

Rusutsu Resort is located in an area of rich nature surrounded by a national park. It is one of th…

• Area around Otaru, Niseko

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Ginsendai

The Sounkyo area is famous for having the earliest autumn foliage in Japan. The Ginsendai viewing …

• Asahikawa, Sounkyo, Tenninkyo

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Special Historic Site, Goryokaku Fort

Goryokaku is a star-shaped pentagon with five corners called ryoho, and this unusual shape was ins…

• Hakodate, area around Hakodate

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Kawamura Kaneto Ainu Memorial Museum120-^

Japan’s oldest Ainu (Hokkaido’s indigenous population) memorial hall, the Kawamura Kan…

• Asahikawa, Sounkyo, Tenninkyo

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Nibutani Ainu Culture Museum

This museum exhibits about 1,000 folk tools used by the Ainu people, allowing you to learn about t…

• Area around Toya, Noboribetsu, and Hidaka

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Hakodate Haikara-Go

The “Hakodate High Color Go.” is a limited-time-only chin-chin train that runs through…

• Hakodate, area around Hakodate

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Hakodate Jomon Culture Center (National Treasure hollow cl…

Exhibiting artifacts from Japan’s prehistoric age, the Hakodate Jomon Culture Center brings …

• Hakodate, area around Hakodate

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Kame Rock, Lake Toya

Named for its resemblance to a turtle shell, Kame (turtle) Rock rises just to the surface of Lake …

• Area around Toya, Noboribetsu, and Hidaka

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Wakka Wild Flower Garden

The largest coastal grassland in Japan, facing the Sea of Okhotsk, is abloom with seasonal wildflo…

• Shiretoko, Abashiri, Monbetsu

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Daioji Temple

Daioji Temple (Watari Date Family Temple) is one of the only open temples in Hokkaido, where you c…

• Area around Toya, Noboribetsu, and Hidaka

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Rows of poplar trees/Rows of ginkgo trees

Hokkaido University is situated amidst a rich natural environment. The rows of poplar trees and gi…

• Sapporo/Jozankei

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Kitami Mint Memorial Museum, Mint Distillation Hall

This building once housed administration and research facilities for Kitami, Hokkaido’s mint…

• Shiretoko, Abashiri, Monbetsu

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Kiroro Resort, Kiroro Snow World

Kiroro is famous in the Winter as a ski resort, but did you know that it also has incredible activ…

• Area around Otaru, Niseko

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Former Site of Sendai Clan Manor House

The fort on the site of this museum, the Sendai Shiraoi Motojinya, was originally built in 1856 to…

• Area around Toya, Noboribetsu, and Hidaka

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Former JNR Temiya Line

The Temiya Line was the first railway line established in Hokkaido. The rails that made up this li…

• Area around Otaru, Niseko

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Mikuni Pass Observation Deck

Mikuni Pass, at 1,139 m, is the highest among all the national highways in Hokkaido. A vast sea of…

• Tokachi, Obihiro

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