{"id":526,"date":"2017-07-19T04:07:23","date_gmt":"2017-07-18T19:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dxlontheroad.com\/english\/?p=526"},"modified":"2017-11-14T03:47:53","modified_gmt":"2017-11-13T18:47:53","slug":"japan-travel-hokkaido","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dxlontheroad.com\/english\/2017\/07\/19\/japan-travel-hokkaido\/","title":{"rendered":"11 days in Hokkaido ~Japanese best nature place"},"content":{"rendered":"

Summer in 2016. We traveled Hokkaido! Hokkaido is one of the best nature places in Japan. It is very famous travel destination not only for foreign visitors, but also for Japanese. I invited my wife X to Japan before our marriage and we traveled Hokkaido during her visit. We used rental car to cover broad area in Hokkaido. We write summary in this post and will make a link from day ~<\/strong>\u00a0to the posts for travel details\u00a0.<\/p>\n

day 0 ~HANEDA Airport<\/h2>\n

I and my parents stayed nearby from HANEDA Airport (HND). I planed to meet X in HND this day. BUT, she could not arrive to HND because of very bad flight delay. Poor X needed to stay in Beijing airport and she could arrive to Shinchitose airport next day midnight.<\/p>\n

day 1 ~Yubari and Sapporo<\/a><\/h2>\n

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I and my parents took a morning flight to Shinchitose airport which is only an hour away from Sapporo, capital of Hokkaido. Because X were still in Beijing this time, we decided to go ahead to see Yubari. Yubari is economically collapsed city in Hokkaido due to the population decline. They are doing a lot efforts to make the town better again. After eating lunch here, we moved to Sapporo. After checking in to the hotel, we went to Sapporo JR station to eat Sushi. When we are eating, X finally arrived to HND. When I went to pick her up at Shinchitose, it was already around 12 midnight.<\/p>\n

Hotel: Toyoko Inn Hokkaido Sapporo-eki Minami-guchi, Sapporo<\/strong> (\u6771\u6a2a\u30a4\u30f3)
\nLunch: “restaurant oyama”, Yubari<\/strong>\uff08\u304a\u30fc\u3084\u307e\u30ec\u30b9\u30c8\u30e9\u30f3\uff09
\nDinner: “Hokkaido Shikisaitei”, Sapporo station<\/strong>\uff08\u5317\u6d77\u9053\u56db\u5b63\u5f69\u4ead<\/em>\uff09<\/p>\n

day 2 ~Sapporo, Biei and Asahikawa<\/a><\/h2>\n

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We woke up not that early this morning because of X’s late arrival last night.
\nWe \u00a0visited Biei at first. Biei is very beautiful rural area in Hokkaido. Biei has \u00a0a lot of flower gardens and trees, and so on. We visited “zerubu-no-oka” and “shikisai-no-oka”. They are very beautiful hill with bunch of flowers. We also visited “aoi-ike” which is very famous recently because it is used for the wall paper of macintosh computer.
\nWe moved to Asahikawa city after additional a few stops in Biei. We checked in a hotel in Asahikawa and ate “ra-men”, Japanese soup noodle.<\/p>\n

Hotel: Toyoko INN Asahikawa, Asahikawa<\/strong> (\u6771\u6a2a\u30a4\u30f3)
\nBreakfast:Toyoko INN has complementary breakfast!
\nLunch: “Furokkusuhoru<\/span> “, Biei Shikisaino-Oka<\/strong>\uff08\u30d5\u30ed\u30c3\u30af\u30b9\u30db\u30fc\u30eb\uff09
\nDinner: “Matsuda”, Asahikawa<\/strong>\uff08\u307e\u3064\u7530\uff09<\/p>\n

day 3 ~Asahiyama Zoo and Lake Saroma<\/a><\/h2>\n

We visited Asahiyama Zoo in this morning. Penguins, polar bears and sea lions are very famous in the zoo. We left the zoo around 3 and arrived to “Saroma-ko”, saroma lake. We checked in\u00a0Lake Saroma Tsuruga Resort<\/em>. This hotel has very good hot-spa and excellent dinner!<\/p>\n

Hotel: Lake Saroma Tsuruga Resort, Kitami<\/strong>
\nBreakfast:Toyoko INN has complementary breakfast!
\nLunch: “GARDEN TERRACE LION”, Asahiyama Zoo<\/strong><\/em>
\nDinner:\u00a0 Lake Saroma Tsuruga Resort provides good complementary dinner<\/p>\n

day 4 ~Lake Saroma, Lake Kussharo, Lake Mashu, Mount Iou, Taiho Sumo Museum, Kaminoko Pond and Abashiri<\/h2>\n

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The final destination of this day is Abashiri which is very close to Lake Saroma. So we decided to explore south side of this area. Main stops were Lake Kussharo and Lake Mashu, very popular lakes in Hokkaido. We also visited Mt. Iou. Iou is the Japanese word for sulfur. As you can imagine, this mountain is very smelly. We also visited “Kaminoko ike” which is nowadays getting attention in this area. Transparent water and fallen trees in the pond make the view very special.<\/p>\n

Hotel: Toyoko INN Okhotsk Abashiri station, Abashiri<\/strong>
\nBreakfast:\u00a0Lake Saroma Tsuruga Resort provides complementary \u00a0breakfast
\nLunch: “Poppo-tei”, Mashu station<\/strong> (\u5fa1\u98df\u4e8b\u51e6 \u307d\u3063\u307d\u4ead<\/em>)
\nDinner: \u00a0“Victoria station Abashiri”, Abashiri<\/strong> (\u30f4\u30a3\u30af\u30c8\u30ea\u30a2\u30b9\u30c6\u30fc\u30b7\u30e7\u30f3 \u7db2\u8d70\u99c5\u524d\u5e97<\/em>)<\/p>\n

day 5 ~Okhotsk Ryu-hyo Museum, Syari and Shiretoko<\/h2>\n

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We visited Okhotsk Ryu-hyo Museum this morning. Abashiri is famous for Ryu-hyo (floating ices on Okhotsk sea). Unfortunately it was summer, so we decided to visit museum of Ryu-hyo. The museum was actually pretty good. Next, we drove to Shiretoko, the north-east pole of Hokkaido. After check-in to “Shiretoko daiichi hotel”, we saw extremely pretty sunset from “yuhi-dai”, which is one of the eight Shiretoko must-go.<\/p>\n

Hotel: Shiretoko daiichi hotel
\nBreakfast:\u00a0Toyoko inn’s complementary \u00a0breakfast
\nLunch: “Soba dokoro Ajisai”, Shari<\/strong> (\u305d\u3070\u51e6\u5473\u5f69<\/em>)
\nDinner: \u00a0Shiretoko daiiichi hotel has complementary buffet dinner<\/p>\n

day 6 ~ Okhotsk Cruise, Shiretoko Goko and Star Gazing<\/h2>\n


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Shiretoko was the main destination in this trip so we stayed in the same hotel two days. We tried the cruise tour in Okhotsk sea in the morning. Then we went to “Shiretoko Goko” in the afternoon. At night we went to see the beautiful stars in Shiretoko. We enjoyed the beautiful nature in Shiretoko using whole day.<\/p>\n

Hotel: Shiretoko daiichi hotel
\nBreakfast: Shiretoko daiiichi hotel has complementary buffet breakfast
\nLunch: We bought lunch in seven-eleven
\nDinner: \u00a0Shiretoko daiiichi hotel has complementary buffet dinner<\/p>\n

day 7 ~Shiretoko, Rausu, Notsuke-Hantou and Nemuro<\/h2>\n

We ate good breakfast in hotel. We drove east coast of the Hokkaido to south. We stopped notsuke peninsula. This peninsula is very weird shape and we could see unique plants and trees. We checked in the hotel in Nemuro. We slept early not to miss the sunrise next day!<\/p>\n

Hotel: Nemuro Kaiyo-tei
\nBreakfast: Shiretoko daiiichi hotel has complementary buffet breakfast
\nLunch: “Restaurant Nobana”, Notsuke<\/strong> (\u30ec\u30b9\u30c8\u30e9\u30f3\u91ce\u82b1<\/em>)
\nDinner: \u00a0Nemuro Kaiyo-tei provides complementary dinner<\/p>\n

day 8 ~Sunrise, Nosappu-Misaki, Nemuro, Kiritappu, Akkeshi, Kushiro<\/h2>\n

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We woke up 1 hour before sunrise and drove to Nosappu-Misaki. Nosappu-Misaki is the most east point except for the small islands. Therefore it gives the earliest sunrise in Japan most days of the year. We could enjoy very impressive sunrise. After eating breakfast in hotel we went to see a few wetlands in this area, Kiritappu and Kushiro. We took a hotel in Kushiro, so we enjoyed beer and famous robata-yaki (kinda seafood BBQ).<\/p>\n

Hotel: Toyoko-INN Kushiro\u00a0Juji-gai
\nBreakfast: Nemuro Kaiyo-tei \u00a0provides\u00a0complementary buffet breakfast
\nLunch: “Yachibouzu Cafe”, Hamanaka<\/strong> (\u3084\u3061\u307c\u3046\u305a\u30ab\u30d5\u30a7<\/em>)
\nDinner: “Gannpeki Robata”, Kushiro<\/strong> (\u5cb8\u58c1 \u7089\u3070\u305f<\/em>)<\/p>\n

day 9 ~Kushiro, Akanko, Tokachi<\/h2>\n

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This day’s main target was “Marimo”, very rare round green alga. Marimo is living in Akan lake so we could see it during the tour cruise. Next, we moved to Tokachi. Tokachi is famous for plain land and hot spring. Especially Tokachi has so-called moor hot-spring. This hot spring is heated by the conversion energy from ancient plant to brown coal. So it has very blackish color! We picked the hotel which provides this moor hot-spring.<\/p>\n

Hotel: Hotel Daiheigen
\nBreakfast: Toyoko INN provides\u00a0complementary breakfast
\nLunch: seven-eleven
\nDinner: Hotel Daiheigen provide complementary buffet dinner<\/p>\n

day 10 ~Tokachi, Obihiro, Kouhuku eki, Sapporo<\/h2>\n

After leaving Tokachi, we went to Obihiro to buy sweet snacks as gifts. “Rokkatei” is very famous sweets shop in Hokkaido and main shop is located in Obihiro. Then we went to “Kohoku station”. In Japanese, it means happy station, so it is very famous for Japanese people, especially for young couples. Finally we came back to Sapporo. We ate “kaiten-sushi” to celebrate safe and sound travel in Hokkaido!<\/p>\n

Hotel: Toyoko Inn Hokkaido Sapporo-eki Minami-guchi
\nBreakfast: Toyoko INN \u00a0provides\u00a0complementary breakfast
\nLunch: Michinoeki Nakasatsunai
\nDinner: “Kaiten-Sushi Toriton”, Sapporo-Hiragishi\u00a0<\/strong>(\u56de\u8ee2\u5bff\u3057\u30c8\u30ea\u30c8\u30f3\u5e73\u5cb8\u5e97<\/em>)<\/p>\n

day 11 ~ Sapporo, Shinchitose Airport<\/h2>\n

We walked around Sapporo a little in the morning. Then we drove to Shinchitose airport. We returned the rental car and ate lunch at the food court in Shinchitose airport. We also did a little shoppings in airport since they have good gift shops.<\/p>\n

Breakfast: Toyoko INN \u00a0provides\u00a0complementary breakfast
\nLunch: Food court in Shinchitose airport<\/p>\n

D & X<\/p>\n

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Summer in 2016. We traveled Hokkaido! Hokkaido is one of the best nature places in Japan. It is very famous travel destination not only for foreign visitors, but also for Japanese. I invited my wife X to Japan before our marriage and we traveled Hokkaido during her visit. We used rental car to cover broad … <\/p>\n

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