Hokkaido Features

Hokkaido Features

• Top Reasons to Go to Hokkaido
  

  The Beer: Hokkaido has the Sapporo Beer brewery and local microbreweries in Otaru and Hakodate.... Read more

• Winter Sports in Hokkaido
  

  Hokkaido is a fantastic winter wonderland. Ridiculous amounts of powder snow and great resorts delight skiers and boarders from both Japan and... Read more

• On the Calendar
  

  One of Japan's best-known annual events, held for a week beginning February 5 or 6, is the Sapporo Snow Festival (Sapporo Yuki Matsuri). More... Read more

• Hokkaido's First Inhabitants
  

  Once upon a time in Ainumosir (human being peaceful land), aynu (human beings) lived in kotan (villages), raising their families on a diet of... Read more

• On the Menu
  

  Hokkaido is known for its seafood—the prefecture's name means "the Road to the Northern Sea." Shakeì or sakeì (salmon)... Read more

• The Beer
  

  Sapporo means beer to drinkers around the world, and what would a visit to the city of the same name be without a little beer research?... Read more