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Niseko Ski Resort
ニセコスキーリゾート
! A3 ⌂ 55 miles (88 km SW
of Sapporo) £ Niseko Stn
@ From Sapporo
Some of Japan’s best skiing
can be found in the Niseko
mountains. Snowboarders
and skiers alike favor this
area for its long, cold winter
season, numerous slopes, and
quality off-piste powder. In Downhill skiing on the powdery
summer it offers adventure- slopes of Niseko Ski Resort
sports vacations. Four major
resorts are connected at the
top of the same mountain 4
and shuttle buses link them
at the base. A single pass Shikotsu-Toya
can be used for all the resorts. National Park EAT
The town of Hirafu is very 支笏洞爺国立公園
popular among visitors, and ! A3 ⌂ 57 miles (92 km SW Hakodate
during the skiing season it Seafood Market
takes on the character of a of Sapporo) £ Toya Stn This famous market
@ From Sapporo n 142-5
lively alpine village.
Toyako Onsen, Toyako-cho, (open 5am–2pm) is
Abuta District; www. packed with stalls
toyako-vc.jp/en selling fish, salmon roe,
3 The disjointed Shikotsu-Toya sea urchin, crab, and
Onuma Quasi- National Park is like an open- more. Pick out what you
National Park air museum to vulcanology. want and have it placed
on one of the charcoal
大沼国定公園 It contains the 6,230-ft- grills that dot the street.
(1,900-m-) high Mount Yotei,
! A3 ⌂ 135 miles (218 km ! A3 ⌂ 9-19
SW of Sapporo) £ Onuma- two crater lakes, and the spa Wakamatsucho,
towns of Jozankei in the north
Koen Stn @ From Hakodate and Noboribetsu in the south. Hakodate-shi, Hokkaido
n Next to Stn; (0138) 040-0063 ∑ hakodate-
67-2170 Beside Lake Shikotsu is the asaichi.com
popular hot-spring resort of
Three large, islet-studded Shikotsu Kohan, as well as the
lakes – Onuma, Konuma, and remarkable moss-covered
Junsainuma – are surrounded Kokenodomon gorge. The Umizora No Haru
by forest and form the Onuma lake is dominated to the north Based on a traditional
Quasi-National Park. Deer and by the rugged peak of Mount Ainu house, this
foxes inhabit the forests, and Eniwa, and to the south by restaurant has
the lakes sup port many kinds Mount Fuppushi and Mount thatched walls and
of waterfowl, particularly Tarumae, with its cinder cone. textiles on loan from
during the spring and fall Lake Toya, 25 miles (40 km) Shiraoi’s Ainu Museum.
migrations. Wildflowers are farther southwest, contains The food includes
abundant in summer and the picturesque group of salmon tataki, grilled
among the rare birds that islands known as Nakajima. venison, and dumplings
come to Onuma are the ruddy Nearby stands Japan’s topped with salmon
kingfisher, the white-tailed youngest volcano, the bare- eggs, plus a millet sake.
eagle, and Steller’s sea eagle. sloped Showa Shinzan (it ! A2 ⌂ 4-19-1 Minami 3
The graceful form of Mount formed between 1943 and Jo Nishi, Chuo-ku,
Komagatake provides a stun- 1945), beside the extremely Sapporo, Hokkaido 060-
ning backdrop to the north. active Mount Usu. 0063 ∑ umizoranoharu.
An easily followed hiking trail The mountains in the park gorp.jp
from the north side of Lake make for rewarding hikes;
Onuma to the upper mountain trails are well defined, and
provides a fabulous view of the views from the tops of
southwestern Hokkaido. Eniwa and Tarumae are superb.
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