Ocean Days offers a variety of plans and tours in Hokkaido. Clear kayaking and fat bikes that allow you to experience beautiful nature are popular. We interviewed them about their new COVID-19 countermeasures, the characteristics of their company, and their unique initiatives.
Furano in winter attracts skiers from all over the world with its high-quality snow, known as "Furano Powder," and the spectacular view of the Tokachi mountain range. The prestigious Furano Ski Resort is famous, but Nakafurano's Hokusei Ski Resort and Kami-furano's Hinode Ski Resort are also full of charm! We will provide you with tips on how to enjoy Furano to the fullest, along with the surrounding hot springs and activities.
Shiretoko was registered as a World Natural Heritage Site in 2005 due to the drift ice that washes up in the Sea of Okhotsk and the dynamic food chain of the animals that live in this area. The appeal of the World Natural Heritage Site Shiretoko is that you can encounter the overwhelming natural scenery and the animals that live there. In the spring and summer seasons, we offer ``cruising tours'' such as whale and dolphin watching, as well as ``eco tours and nature tours.'' In the winter season, we offer ``icebreakers'' that take you out to sea filled with drift ice, and ``snow tours'' that take you on walks around the Shiretoko Goko Lakes. Enjoy the natural beauty that shows off its different expressions throughout the four seasons while trekking!
Overwhelming natural scenery, an environment created by a miraculous balance, the flora and fauna that live there, etc... One of the criteria for registration as a World Natural Heritage Site is ``a natural phenomenon of outstanding natural beauty and aesthetic importance.'' There are four regions in Japan that have been certified as World Natural Heritage Sites. In the areas of "Shiretoko", "Shirakami Mountains", "Ogasawara Islands", and "Yakushima", many outdoor activity experience tours are held where you can directly feel the natural beauty of the area, and are enjoyed by many travelers. Masu. This page takes a close look at popular outdoor activity experience programs in each of the four World Natural Heritage Sites, and introduces recommended experience tour plans that you absolutely cannot miss when visiting Japan's World Natural Heritage Sites. To do!
Snowmobiling is a popular winter activity for people who feel that "skiing and snowboarding alone are not enough" as a winter sport to enjoy in the snowy mountains. This site covers all the information you need to book a snowmobile experience tour, including experience tour plans and shop introductions held at winter sports spots in Japan, including Hokkaido, Iwate, Yamagata, Nagano, Niigata, Gifu, etc., as well as reviews from users and other word-of-mouth reviews.
As the name suggests, dog sledding involves dogs tied to harnesses pulling a sled. Sled dogs are very resistant to the cold and are intelligent enough to listen to what humans say, so they were the main means of transportation until snowmobiles and other things appeared. The first adventurer to reach the South Pole also used a dog sled. These days, in addition to the races I mentioned earlier, dog sledding is widely enjoyed as an activity.
This page focuses on outdoor activity tours and Japanese culture experience leisure programs that are essential for enjoying sightseeing, driving, and dates on a winter trip to Hokkaido. Where? (area/region), What? (activity/sports), What kind of tour? (experience tour plan), we will explore the charms of winter Hokkaido picked up from Activity Japan's perspective based on the ranking of popular reservations for each.
Hokkaido is a vast area with an overwhelming amount of natural beauty, and many travelers visit it throughout the year to experience outdoor leisure activities. The coming autumn and winter seasons will be the seasons when the true essence of enjoying nature shines through, and various winter sports such as skiing and snowboarding will be in full swing early. On this page, we will announce the popularity rankings of areas, activity types, and experience tour plans based on last season's Activity Japan reservation data, as well as information on shops offering activity experiences in popular areas. We will thoroughly introduce the latest information on play, leisure, and activities that will be useful for your trip to Hokkaido in the 2019-2020 autumn and winter season ♪
This one-day pottery experience class uses an electric potter's wheel and is held by a pottery studio called Maruyama Tobo, which has a shop in Chuo Ward, Sapporo, Hokkaido. Its convenient location, just a five-minute walk from Maruyama Koen Station on the Tozai subway line, is a great point for tourists who are unfamiliar with Sapporo. The content is a very simple pottery experience. While receiving instruction from the staff on how to turn the potter's wheel and the basics of pottery, you can create your own pottery work, such as a teacup, teacup, or small bowl. Finally, the instructor will finish the work and send it to the kiln. It will take about a month from firing to completion, but it is safer to send it by mail rather than take it home, so that is also an option◎
Hakodate City, Hokkaido, is famous as the "squid town." Some locals say it's "all about squid," and there are some negative opinions. However, for someone living in Tokyo, where there is nothing famous, there is nothing more enviable than a place famous for delicious food! And for me, it's seafood, which is a big plus. The Tsugaru Strait, which connects the Pacific Ocean and the Sea of Japan, which Hakodate owns, is a route for squid that travel south from the Sea of Okhotsk in search of warm waters suitable for spawning. The squid fishing season is long, lasting from around June to the following January, in the waters off Hakodate. In Hakodate, where squid fishing is thriving, special fish tanks are set up on fishing boats and the squid are brought to the market fresh.
We would like to introduce you to a tandem skydiving flight plan that can be experienced at Apple Port Yoichi in Yoichi-gun, Hokkaido, about an hour and a half drive from Sapporo. A tandem flight is a course where you fly with a professional pilot, or you can say you're two people with an instructor.
The Shiretoko Peninsula is a peninsula that juts out north-northeast from the northeastern tip of Hokkaido, jutting out into the southern end of the Sea of Okhotsk. It is located between Shari Town, Shari District, and Rausu Town, Menashi District, Hokkaido, and in the center of the peninsula are beautiful mountains such as the Shiretoko Mountain Range, including the highest peak, Mt. Rausu, the Shiretoko Mountain Range, and Mt. Iou. It is also famous as an area where many rare plants and animals live, and where wild animals such as brown bears, red foxes, and white-tailed eagles live in high density.
So, including my personal notes, let's start by taking a quick look at the basics: what is Lake Shikotsu? Lake Shikotsu is a freshwater lake in Chitose, Hokkaido, and is the northernmost ice-free lake in Japan. As I mentioned before, Shikotsu-Toya National Park, which can be accessed by car in about 30 minutes from New Chitose Airport or about an hour from Sapporo, is one of the most popular tourist spots in southern Hokkaido, attracting not only Hokkaido residents but also tourists from all over the country who come to experience the natural beauty of the area as a famous outdoor spot.
The plan that caught my eye this time was an afternoon canoeing experience tour guided by "Kushiro Marsh & River," a shop that holds nature tours and eco-tours around the Kushiro Marsh! The shop is located near Kushiro-Shitsugen Station on the Senmo Main Line, which is also the meeting point for the tour, so it's easy to access and easy to find. ◎ The attraction of this plan is that the tour starts in the evening and you can enjoy a canoe cruise around the "course that best lets you experience the Kushiro Marsh," from Hosooka Canoe Port to Iwaboki Water Gate.
Summer is just around the corner! That's why in the first half of this month, we introduced river activity spots in the Kanto area. You may have noticed that even in tourist spots close to the city center, many river boating and rafting experiences are held. However, Kanto is not the only place where you can enjoy full-scale rafting. So this time, we will leave the Kanto region and explain rafting tours that you can enjoy in other areas.
Well, the first summer season since the new era name Reiwa began in 2019 is just around the corner♪ Summer is the season for enjoying nature such as the sea, rivers, lakes, and mountains, and for outdoor activities that refresh and cool down both body and mind! Many people are planning to use their summer vacation and Obon holidays to enjoy these leisure activities at popular travel spots all over the country◎ On this page, we will announce the latest popularity ranking based on the number of reservations for activity experience tour plans for the 2019 summer season (July 1st to September 30th, 2019), classified into four categories: "Prefecture," "Detailed area," "Activity type," and "Experience tour plan."↑ Demand is expected to exceed last year's in the 2019 season, so we recommend making reservations for popular activities early☆
The gourmet food that caught my eye was squid. Apparently it is a popular Hakodate specialty, and a "live squid fishing pond" has been set up inside the famous Ekini Market in the Hakodate Morning Market, which is popular with tourists. Squid is delicious, isn't it? It's easy to imagine that fresh squid caught in Hokkaido is the best. So I searched for a place where I could actually go squid fishing on a fishing boat instead of at the market, and found the experience tour I'm introducing today.
Hello to everyone reading the Activity Japan BLOG! The other day, I wrote this blog post about going on a trip to my friend's place in Kushiro, Hokkaido this summer, but after doing some research, I found out that Hokkaido is overwhelmingly large and has a lot of interesting outdoor spots! I had been going to Okinawa for many years in the summer, so I was completely ignorant! I had no idea! So, I put aside my schedule to go see my friend in Kushiro and searched for things to see and do in the area around Sapporo, which is a must-see for your first trip to Hokkaido, while surfing the internet. I was really interested in SUP (stand up paddle boarding) at Lake Shikotsu, a lake leisure spot that represents Hokkaido, and I will research and share information about my personal recommended tours. There are many plans that look really fun, so I hope this will be helpful for your Hokkaido sightseeing in the summer of 2019.
Today, I'm going to have fun introducing some outdoor activities that I'm interested in at the moment! To be honest, I've never been to Hokkaido since I was old enough to understand, but as I've grown up, I've become more and more interested in its seafood, tourist spots, and enormous natural scenery, so it's on the list of potential family trip destinations for summer 2019. I have a friend living in Kushiro, so I thought I'd get in touch with him for the first time in a while and go somewhere nearby, so I searched for outdoor leisure activities around Lake Kussharo and the source of the Kushiro River! The scale is so overwhelmingly different...
Mukawa River in Hokkaido is one of the cleanest rivers in Japan. It is the main stream of the Mukawa River system, running north to south for 135 km before emptying into the Pacific Ocean. Mukawa Town, through which the Mukawa River flows, was formed in 2006 by the merger of Hobetsu Town and Mukawa Town. Located in the southern part of the central Hokkaido region, it is surrounded on three sides by the outer edge of the Hidaka Mountains, and faces the Pacific Ocean to the south. It is close to Sapporo City, Chitose City, and Tomakomai City, and is blessed with a diverse natural environment, including the sea, mountains, rivers, and plains. With the summer season just around the corner, we will focus on rafting, an activity that can be enjoyed using meltwater and the rapids of the Mukawa River! Late April to mid-May is the best season for rafting, as the rivers swell with the melting snow! You can enjoy the rapids, which are the best part of rafting. Furthermore, typhoon season and after rain are the best times to go, as the water volume temporarily increases and the current becomes stronger. Here are some recommended experience plans that allow you to experience the rapids and nature that are unique to Hokkaido! If you've seen it on social media or would like to try whitewater rafting, be sure to visit during the 2019 season.
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