Best around Kushiro Spot List

Japan's largest marshland, viewed from observatories on its east and west sides — home to red-crowned cranes and sika deer

One of Hokkaido's three most famous bridges

Learn about the Kushiro Shitsugen wetlands with display panels and video footage

An art museum with exhibits and concerts

Hot spring steam drifts through the town: a picture perfect onsen

Passing down Ainu lifestyle and culture

Pick your sashimi and enjoy making your own seafood rice bowl

Lake Toro and other bodies of water can be surveyed here

Enjoy fine cuisine in a historic station building

Overwhelming in scale

Showcases the bountiful nature in and around Lake Akan

Dig in the sand to unveil this hot spring

A slow-paced tour through the center of the Kushiro Shitsugen wetlands

Japan's clearest lake, famed for its deep ”Mashu blue” surface and the mystical sea of clouds that sometimes drifts over it at dawn

The powerful scents and sounds of a hot spring area

A large-scale mall on the waterfront

A lively onsen area brimming with shops

A popular outdoor bath near the lake shore

See Japanese cranes in the wild

Some thirty establishments form a beacon of Ainu culture