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Muroran yakitori

Generally speaking, yakitori (meaning “grilled chicken”) refers to skewered chicken me…

• Area around Toya, Noboribetsu, and Hidaka

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Saru River Headwaters Primeval Forest

Located on the Hidaka side of the Nissho Pass, this forest is designated as a National Natural Mon…

• Area around Toya, Noboribetsu, and Hidaka

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Hakodate Magistrate’s Office

The Hakodate Magistrate's Office was a government office newly established by the Edo shogunat…

• Hakodate, area around Hakodate

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Hakucho Bridge

The Hakucho Bridge, with its elegant form resembling a swan spreading its wings, is the largest su…

• Area around Toya, Noboribetsu, and Hidaka

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Basha Bar (Horse-drawn carriage BAR)

Farming horses, which shared the hardships of Hokkaido's pioneering period with people, were i…

• Tokachi, Obihiro

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Rebunge Coast

Toyoura Town, part of the Toya-Usu Geopark, faces Funka Bay (Uchiura Bay). To the north, it featur…

• Area around Toya, Noboribetsu, and Hidaka

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Kanda Nissho Memorial Museum of Art

Kanda Nissho (1937 – 1970) was an oil painter known for his realism and examination of the o…

• Tokachi, Obihiro

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Monbetsu Racecourse

Monbetsu Racecourse is located in Hidaka, one of the world's leading horse-producing regions, …

• Area around Toya, Noboribetsu, and Hidaka

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Akenogaoka Park

The park was created when trees were planted to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the founding o…

• Tokachi, Obihiro

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Shunkunitai

Nemuro, known across Hokkaido and beyond as a treasure trove of wild birds, is frequented by inter…

• Kushiro, Lake Akan, Lake Mashu, Nemuro

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Former Nakamura Family Merchant House

Esashi in southern Hokkaido was a flourishing fishing village during the Edo period (1603-1868); s…

• Matsumae, Esashi, Okushiri

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Nikka Bar Rita

Nikka Whisky is a classic Japanese whisky; so much so, in fact, that the company’s founder, …

• Area around Otaru, Niseko

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Hidaka Mountain Range Museum

The Hidaka Mountains Museum is a geo-museum of the Hidaka Mountains that exhibits the relationship…

• Area around Toya, Noboribetsu, and Hidaka

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Lake Mashu Third Observatory

Located about 4 km north of the First Observatory, the "Lake Mashu Third Observatory" is…

• Kushiro, Lake Akan, Lake Mashu, Nemuro

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Pyotan Falls

This waterfall was formed in 1955 (Showa 30) when a small power plant was buried by a flood. With …

• Tokachi, Obihiro

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Akankohan View Point

The observation deck, located about 2 km from the hot spring town on the shores of Lake Akan and a…

• Kushiro, Lake Akan, Lake Mashu, Nemuro

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Cape Sukai

Cape Sukai, on Rebun Island approximately 30 miles from the northern tip of the Hokkaido mainland,…

• Wakkanai, Rishiri, Rebun, Rumoi

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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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Usu-Zenkoji Temple

Founded in 826, in 1613 Matsumae Keihiro, lord of the Matsumae domain, rebuilt the Nyorai-do hall,…

• Area around Toya, Noboribetsu, and Hidaka

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Lake Chimikeppu

Forests cover most of the area of the town of Tsubetsu. Lake Chimikep is a hidden lake in such a t…

• Shiretoko, Abashiri, Monbetsu

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