Best around Hokkaido Spot List

The vast nature of Otaru has a new look every season

Brown bears, just a pane of glass away

Enjoy your own choice of alcoholic beverage with ice cream

A themed garden from a plant nursery

See flowers wild in nature and color

A sweet aroma wafts past the customers who line up every day to visit this veritable palace of sweets

A 360-degree view, 160 meters above the ground

Picked as one of Japan's top 100 waterfalls

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

Keep an eye out for plentiful wildlife

A snow-white curtain of water falls into a blue river

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

Once a storehouse, now a museum showcasing Otaru's history and nature

A 20-minute drive from central Otaru; a hot spring town surrounded by nature

A breathtaking canyon borders the upper reaches of the Toyohira River

A beautiful event that puts Sounkyo on the map

Overwhelming in scale

A famous restaurant preserving the flavor handed down through the generations since its founding 40 years ago

All sorts of history-rich trains on display

The secret to this restaurant's delectable flavor lies in its kelp soup stock