FUN FACT: There are about 5000 Steller’s sea eagles left in the world, and 2000 of them come to Hokkaido each year. Once your ...

The home of the animist Ainu offers surreal experiences.

Six of them had increased the rate. In 2015, Kushiro city, host of the Lake Akan Hot Spring, became the first municipality in Hokkaido to raise the bathing tax rate. It now charges a bathing rate ...

Covering 410 kilometers, the Hokkaido East Trail will link three national parks: Kushiro-Shitsugen (Kushiro Marsh), Akan-Mashu and Shiretoko ... in the direction of Lake Akanko.