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Hokkaido
Upopoy National Ainu Museum and Park
Lakeside songs, ancestral dances, and Japan's only Ainu national museum.
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Abashiri City Historical Museum
Stuffed seals beside Stone Age tools — Okhotsk's past, layered.
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Moyoro Shell Mound Museum
Bones and blades of a forgotten Arctic sea-people, buried for 1,300 years.
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Abashiri Drift Ice Sightseeing & Icebreaker Ship AURORA
Steel hull cracks the frozen Okhotsk while sea angels drift below.
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Our Lady of the Angels Trappistine Abbey of the Order of Cistercians
Nuns bake a French butter cake here — sold out most mornings since 1898.
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Sahoro Resort Bear Mountain
A bus window is all that stands between you and wild brown bears.
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Higashitaisetsu Nature Center
5,000 pinned insects and microscopes reveal Hokkaido's hidden wild.
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Tokachi Millennium Forest
A grand-award garden where you ride horses through Hokkaido's wild meadows.
Hokkaido
Yosan Minka Sericulture House
A 1909 thatched farmhouse engineered to raise silkworms in Hokkaido.
Hokkaido
Kushiro City Museum
A crane-winged building holds mammoth bones and blue whale skeletons inside.
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Daimon Yokocho Hakodate Hikari no Yatai
26 steaming stalls, Hokkaido crab and lamb, one coin a round.
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Asahikawa Science Center SCI-PAL
Step inside a soap bubble, bounce on the moon, all in Hokkaido.
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Tokiwa Koen Park (Hokkaido)
Row a wooden boat past lotus blooms in Hokkaido's oldest city park.
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Asahikawa Kitasaito Garden
Step off the train into 80,000 blooms with Daisetsuzan at your back.
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Kosetsuen (Miharashi Koen Park)
A merchant's private garden, lit by red maples on autumn nights.
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Hakodate Orthodox Church
Its weekend bells made Japan's official list of cherished soundscapes.
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Locals in HOKKAIDO
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Frequently asked questions
- What is Hokkaido known for?
- Hokkaido is the northernmost main island of Japan, and is famous for it's beautiful scenery, mouth-watering seafood, and ski-resorts. Ski and snowboard to your hearts content on some of the best slopes and ski-resorts in the world at Niseko. Eat lavender flavored ice-cream and take a stroll among the sea of colorful flowers at Furano. Eat some of the best sushi and sashimi Japan has to offer at Hakodate. See historical Otaru with it's canals and old warehouses from the glory days. Relax in the b…
- Where is Hokkaido?
- Hokkaido is an area in HOKKAIDO, Japan.
- What are the best places to visit in Hokkaido?
- WOW U lists 67 spots in Hokkaido. Popular spots include Kussharoko Lake, Upopoy National Ainu Museum and Park , Sokodai Observatory, Abashiri City Historical Museum, Moyoro Shell Mound Museum.
- Can I book a guided tour in Hokkaido?
- Yes. WOW U lists activities in Hokkaido hosted by Locals, the local guides who live in the area. You book, message your Locals host and pay on WOW U.
- What is WOW U?
- WOW U is a booking platform that connects travellers directly with local guides in Japan, called Locals. You book, message your Locals host and pay on WOW U, and every experience can be reviewed afterwards. More than 6,100 Locals are registered on WOW U. Reviews left by travellers average 4.7 out of 5.