Hokkaido Sightseeing Hokkaido Activities Hokkaido Food
Hokkaido Festivals Hokkaido Transportation Niseko Guide
A few Facts about Hokkaido
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Hokkaido is a sport and nature lovers paradise and also offers some of
the most beautiful sightseeing places in Japan. Hokkaido hosts the spectacular
Sapporo Snow Festival, skiing and snow boarding, river rafting, hiking
and hundreds of wonderful and relaxing Japanese style “Onsens” or natural
hot springs. The people are friendly and the sea food is perhaps the freshest
and most delicious in all Japan.
Also home to Japan's aboriginal Ainu people, Hokkaido continues to have
wide open spaces and wilderness with many great national parks. For many
visitors the scenery resembles Canada with green fields, cows and red
barns with grain silos
It’s Japan's largest prefecture, making up Japan's entire northern island.
The Weather in Hokkaido is cooler than the rest of Japan, not having Japan's
muggy summers and rainy season makes it a very popular domestic destination
in the spring and summer months.
Hokkaido was settled by the Japanese within the last 100 years or so.
This is a very short time compared to the thousands of years of Japanese
history on the rest of the country. This results in its architecture and
cities being more modern, and mostly based on western-like grid layouts.
Hokkaido Sightseeing
With many interesting and interactive museums like the famous Otokoyama Sake Museum and a vast amount of places with natural beauty to see sightseeing in Hokkaido is never diapointing.....
Hokkaido Activities
The four wonderful seasons of Hokkaido, especially the summers without the humidity of the rest of Japan and the snow filled winters make this northern island prefecture full of so many fun filled activities not the leas of which are skiing / snowboarding, hiking, camping, kayaking ……
Hokkaido Festivals
The annual Sapporo Snow Festival: The most famous winter festival in Japan and attracts many people from all over the world. This festival is held in early February and lasts about a week. More than 300 ice sculptures and snow statues are exhibited in three sites in Sapporo-city, Hokkaido...........
Hokkaido Transportation
Hokkaido's main international gateway is Sapporo's Chitose Airport (CTS). Hokkaido is large in size, so allow plenty of time to get around and don't try to do too much if your time is limited. Many Japanese maps show Hokkaido within scale to the rest of the country this make distances appear deceptively small......
Hokkaido Food
One of the biggest attractions of Hokkaido is of course, the FOOD! There are many varieties of dishes and foods made from fresh materials grown and caught localy in Hokkaido.Dynamic, delicate, daring and rare. Flavors of Hokkaido are diverse, depending on seasons, regions and restaurants........
Niseko Guide
Niseko is the name of a small town that features many ski resorts in
northern Japan in Hokkaido prefecture
With a population of only 4,654 (as of March 31, 2008), it welcomes as
many as 1.5 million tourists each year. The word Niseko means “vertical
cliff” in the language of Hokkaido’s aboriginal people, the Ainu.....
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