Hokkaido's the only place in Japan you can find them. 16:34 So far, an hour-and-a-half flight from Tokyo to Shin-Chitose Airport and an hour's ride on the express bus.

Hokkaido Airports GM aviation business development Keikou Venske, speaking at Routes Asia 2025, stated (26-Mar-2025) Hokkaido Airports needs to focus on summer travel to grow its international ...

SAPPORO--Schoolchildren in Hokkaido, the northernmost main island of Japan, can now look forward to longer summer breaks after temperatures hit a blistering 36.3 degrees this year. The island’s ...

A ride through Hokkaido Prefecture in early summer. We meet an artisan teaching handicrafts of the indigenous Ainu to the next generation, and a legendary trainer of an unusual horse race.

As I am not exactly partial to very cold weather and snow, nor do I fancy Japan’s hot summer, we chose to visit Hokkaido just as the weather transitioned from the hot summer to the much cooler ...

In Hokkaido, high seawater temperatures have also apparently changed the appearance of kelp. Since summer, a thread-like organism called Hydrozoa has been increasingly found on the surface of kelp.