NORTHERN LAND HOKKAIDO

The realHokkaido,mapped.

SAPPORO ✦NISEKO ✦FURANO ✦BIEI ✦OBIHIRO ✦SHIRETOKO ✦OTARU ✦HAKODATE ✦TOKACHI ✦KUSHIRO ✦WAKKANAI ✦RISHIRI ✦AKKESHI ✦TOMAMU ✦SAPPORO ✦NISEKO ✦FURANO ✦BIEI ✦OBIHIRO ✦SHIRETOKO ✦OTARU ✦HAKODATE ✦TOKACHI ✦KUSHIRO ✦WAKKANAI ✦RISHIRI ✦AKKESHI ✦TOMAMU ✦

Click your way around Japan's great north

179 towns. 14 regions. One wild island bigger than Austria. Click anywhere on the map and start exploring beyond Sapporo and the ski lifts.

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Why Northern Land Hokkaido

Beyond the ski resorts

Niseko is real, and so is everything east of it. We cover the farm roads, fishing ports and national parks most English guides never reach.

Straight from the source

We work alongside Hokkaido's farmers, fishermen and chefs — the guides are built on relationships, not press trips.

Filmed on location

Every destination is shot by our own crew, in every season. What you see is what the island actually looks like.

Fourteen Hokkaidos

The island is administered as 14 subprefectures, and each feels like its own country. Use them as chapters for your trip.

Ishikari

石狩

Sapporo and its plain — Hokkaido's urban heart, beer halls and gateway airport.

Sorachi

空知

Former coal country turned wine valley, with quiet rice towns and rolling vineyards.

Shiribeshi

後志

Niseko powder, Otaru canals and the dramatic Shakotan coast.

Iburi

胆振

Volcano country — Lake Toya, Noboribetsu hot springs and Ainu culture at Upopoy.

Hidaka

日高

Racehorse ranches under the Hidaka range, ending at windswept Cape Erimo.

Oshima

渡島

Hakodate's night views, Edo-era Matsumae and the shinkansen gateway to the island.

Hiyama

檜山

The quiet Japan Sea coast — herring-boom heritage towns and Okushiri Island.

Kamikawa

上川

Furano lavender, Biei's patchwork hills and the Daisetsuzan alpine wilderness.

Rumoi

留萌

Sunset coastline famous for uni — sea urchin straight off the boats.

Soya

宗谷

Japan's northern tip: Wakkanai, and the flower islands of Rishiri and Rebun.

Okhotsk

オホーツク

Drift ice in winter, Shiretoko World Heritage wilderness all year.

Tokachi

十勝

Hokkaido's breadbasket — vast farmland, garden roads and food straight from the source.

Kushiro

釧路

Misty port city, red-crowned cranes and the caldera lakes of Akan–Mashu.

Nemuro

根室

The wild east — dairy pastures, brown bears of Shiretoko's far side, first sunrise in Japan.

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