Best around Hokkaido Spot List

Venture into drift ice on a customized icebreaker

Familiarize yourself with history, culture, and art

Picked as one of Japan's top 100 waterfalls

Tourists like journey here for their own ”start to happiness” (kofuku)

Japan's northernmost ice-free lake

Observe Mt. Yotei from this hotel's panoramic deck. It also makes for some romantic stargazing

An inn that prides itself in having a free-flowing hot spring and in its cuisine

With cheap and delicious food for sale, there's often a line-up to visit this popular store

Look for the ”Morris” cable car

Chock-full of discoveries about northern peoples

A gentle lake surface and billowing mountain make for a view of curious contrast

Mt. Rebun soars above Japan's northernmost island. Enjoy its sights on a cape walk

Includes a wide-angle observation deck to enjoy

High ground facing Hakodate Bay; a great place to view sunsets

Enjoy fine cuisine in a historic station building

Sapporo's first park and social gathering center, built to receive noble guests of the Hokkaido Development Commission

Some thirty establishments form a beacon of Ainu culture

Listen to the soft melodies of music boxes in a red-bricked building renovated from a storehouse

Colorful hills reminiscent of European rolling countrysides

Discover the famous ”Mashu blue”