Archive for the ‘Hokkaido Area’ Category
Kushiro Shitsugen (Kushiro marsh=釧路湿原) is national park and has the largest marsh wetland in Japan. It is well known as the home of endangered Japanese Cranes (丹頂鶴). JR Hokkaido’s Senmo line goes through this wetland and gives you a great scenery. Kushiro Shitsugen Norokko train (釧路湿原ノロッコ号) is operated on this line from late April to …
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Furano (富良野) is one of most popular spot in Hokkaido. Especially July is the busiest season because the bloom of Lavender. You can enjoy Furano in not only summer season but also autumn. You may see the fall color leaves in September. The scenery in autumn is breathtaking too. Furano can be accessed directly from …
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Bento (弁当) is the classic boxed meal in Japan. Especially Bento that is sold at station is called “Ekiben”. “Eki” (駅) means station and “Ben” (弁) is an abbreviation of the Bento. Major department store hold an exhibition that show many Ekiben from all over Japan very often. Ekiben is one of the food culture …
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Shiretoko is one of UNESCO World heritage site in Japan. Shiretoko cannot be accessed by only rail, you need to take the bus from the station. You have two way to access to Shiretoko. The first one is from Abashiri(網走) via Shiretoko-Shari(知床斜里). The other one is to access from Kushiro(釧路). The nearest station is Shiretoko-Shari(知床斜里). …
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I received some questions about possibility visiting Kyoto and Hokkaido in only 7 days. So I show you itinerary about Kyoto and Hokkaido.
We don’t use Japan Rail Pass for the transfer to downtown Tokyo from Narita airport because most of tourists stay in Tokyo for the first several days. You will start to use your …
This itinerary includes UNESCO world heritage site, Shiretoko and several highlights in Hokkaido.
We don’t use Japan Rail Pass for the transfer between downtown Tokyo and Narita or Haneda airport. This itinerary starts from/to Tokyo.
Day 1 Tokyo – Shin-Aomori – Hakodate
06:28am Depart from Tokyo by Tohoku Shinakansen “Hayate 11″
10:01am Arrive at Shin-Aomori
10:16am Depart …
Sapporo is the biggest city in Hokkaido and is very well know city where hold one of the biggest winter festival in the world.
We can get Sapporo in same day from Tokyo and Osaka by Shinkansen and Limited express trains. And also we can take a night train too. Let’s see the sample itinerary.
*You can …
Pokémon Center (ポケモンセンター) is an official store of Anime character, “Pokémon”. You can buy many kinds of Pokémon merchandise at Pokémon Center. We have six stores now in Japan.
Pokémon Center Tokyo
Business hours
Mon-Fri:11:00-20:00
Weekends & Holidays: 10:00-19:00
Address
Shiodome Shibarikyu Building 2 floor
1-2-3 Kaigan Minato-ku, Tokyo
105-0022
Phone: 03-6430-7733
How to get there
Take JR Yamanote-line. Get off at Hamamatsucho station. Use north …
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Cape Erimo (=Erimo Misaki=襟裳岬) is located at south end of Hokkaido. There is more than 60m height cliff around the cape and 7km long shore reef to offshore. It is facing the open water of Pacific Ocean. A lot of harbor seals can be seen there.
You can access Cape Erimo by JR local line and …
