Before you know it, May is here, and Hokkaido's Shiba cherry blossom season is just around the corner!
The super dreamy Higashima Kotoshiba Sakura Festival has been held on May 3 (Wed) and lasts until the end of May. In addition to the peach-pink dream flower mounds during the day, you can also enjoy the lights at night!
2023 Higashizao Kotoshiba Sakura Festival (ひがしもこと芝桜まつり)

Welcome to stay at Jintangting in the evening!

Hello! ?‍♀️
Shintoku Tourism Association.

Golden Week has finally begun. ✨✨✨ What kind of holidays do you have planned?

The snow ❄️ melted near the Karikatsu Highland on National Route ? 38 that runs through Shintoku Town, and from today, when the greenery ? began to stand out, Sahoro Resort Bear Mountain ?, Karikatsu Kogen Eco Torokko Railway ?, the former Karikatsu Line Museum ?, the terrace of the ☕️ pass, and Western Village Sahoro ?? began to open one after another.

If you are sightseeing nearby, please enjoy it in the Karikatsu Highlands! ?

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#Tokachi
#Shintoku
#Shintoku Tourism Association
#Golden Week
#Route 38
#Karikatsu Kogen
#Karikatsu Kogen Park
#Sahoro Resort Bear Mountain
#Bear
#Karikatsu Kogen Eco Torokko Railway
#Eco trolley
#Former Karikatsu Line Museum
#Blue Train
#Terrace of the mountain pass
#Western Village Sahoro
#Horseback riding

In Hokkaido, there is a place with a railway track at the bottom of a lake, like in Spirited Away. This place is called Lake Shikaribetsu and is a very fantastic place.

Shot at Bihoro Pass, Hokkaido.
There is still a lot of snow, but the Milky Way has finally begun to appear.
I hope it will show more beautiful contours as it gets warmer.

This is the state of Onneto and Yunotaki today.
The weather was great and it was a great location!

It is a Tokachigawa Onsen Tourist Association in Hokkaido.
The Otofuke is read as "Otofukecho".

We would like to COOL JAPAN VIDEOS provide attractive information about hot springs, sightseeing spots, exquisite gourmet food, access methods, and weather!

Please spend a dream-like time at Tokachigawa Onsen Otofuke where you can heal with the exquisite scenery woven by magnificent nature and the blissful hot spring.

First of all, I would like to introduce hot springs that heal both the mind and body.
Tokachigawa Onsen was 2004 (Heisei 16) selected as a Hokkaido Heritage Site ahead of many hot spring resorts in Hokkaido with its rare spring quality in the world.
Tokachigawa Onsen is famous as a rare "mall hot spring" in Japan.
Mohr is derived from the German word for lignite, etc., and is a hot spring that gushes out through lignite beds containing plant-based organic matter from ancient times, and the color of the water is amber and a slightly sloppy feeling.

The hotels, inns, and other accommodations lined up in the hot spring town are full of elaborate open-air baths and indoor baths, and you can enjoy the hot springs of beauty to your heart's content, and there are also facilities where you can take a day trip to the hot spring.

Otofuke's sights are so full of charm that you will lose track of time.
Roadside Station Garden Spa Tokachigawa Onsen is like a treasure chest with a market where fresh local ingredients and specialties gather, a spa where you can enjoy the Hokkaido Heritage Mall Onsen in a swimsuit, an experience workshop, and four restaurants.

At the Tokachi Ranch, which boasts a vast site, a magnificent view of Tokachi spreads out 360 degrees from the observation deck inside the ranch.
From mid-January to the end of February, snow exercises are open to the public as part of horse health management.

At Yanagigetsu Sweetpia Garden, you can get a glimpse of the manufacturing process of popular confectionery makers and experience making sweets.

Tokachigaoka Park is the perfect place to enjoy with your family, with seasonal flowers blooming around Hanak, a large flower clock with a diameter of 18 meters and a second hand length of 10 meters and 10 centimeters.

Otofuke Tokachigawa Onsen is full of attractive events.
Why don't you be fascinated by the light of fireflies that color Tokachigawa Onsen at night in "Moor Hot Spring Firefly Viewing" in early summer?
Many tourists come to enjoy the wild dance of fireflies and spend a special time where you can feel the symbiosis with nature.

The gorgeous event "Sairinka" held in winter creates a fantastic space where about 600 light objects, including a symbol tower of up to 5.4 meters, are linked with sound and light.

Tokachigawa Onsen Otofuke Hokkaido hosts a variety of attractive events throughout the year, including these events.
Along with hot springs, sightseeing spots, and delicious gourmet food, we hope you will enjoy seasonal events.

Access to Tokachigawa Onsen Otofuke Hokkaido is about 2 hours by car from New Chitose Airport, about 3 hours by train from JR Sapporo Station, and about 20 minutes by car or taxi from Obihiro Station.

Tokachigawa Onsen Otofuke Hokkaido awaits you with beautiful nature, hot springs that heal both mind and body, and inspiring sightseeing spots!

To everyone who watches the COOL JAPAN VIDEOS, this is the Tomakomai Tourism Association.

In this account, we will introduce plenty of attractive sightseeing spots in "Tomakomai City", one of Japan's leading industrial cities and the largest port city in Hokkaido!

Tomakomai is about one and a half hours by car from Sapporo City and about 30 minutes by car from New Chitose Airport, making it a very convenient transportation access.
When sightseeing, rental bicycles are also available, so sightseeing while feeling the breeze of nature is also recommended.

Now, we will introduce the sightseeing spots that Tomakomai City is proud of.

■ Mt. Tarumae
Designated as a natural monument of Hokkaido, it is a triple volcano surrounded by two world-famous outer ring mountains.
You can visit the 7th station by car, and you can easily climb from the 7th station to the summit in about 50 minutes, where you can enjoy the magnificent scenery and alpine plants.

■ Midorigaoka Park
From the observation deck at the top of the park, you can overlook Tomakomai City.
Fountains and flower beds are maintained, and it is also used by many people as an outdoor sports park with an athletic field and a rugby field.

■ Nishikionuma Park
It is a park centered on Nishiki Onuma with a circumference of 1.6 kilometers and is surrounded by nature.
You can enjoy it throughout the year at a full range of facilities such as the largest auto campsite "Alten" in Japan, a canoe base, a park golf course, and a hot bath facility "Yunomi-no-yu".

■ Northern Horse Park
It is a popular tourist spot where you can interact with horses.
You can experience horseback riding, sightseeing horse-drawn horses, sightseeing horse-drawn carriages, horse-drawn sleighs, horseback riding lessons, happy pony shows, horse trekking, etc.

Next, we will introduce popular gourmet food, which is one of the pleasures of sightseeing in Tomakomai.

Tomakomai City boasts the largest landing volume of hokki shellfish, which is said to be the king of shellfish, in Japan.
It is known as a high-class sushi topping, but you can buy it comfortably in Tomakomai.
In addition, there are plenty of popular specialty gourmet foods that you should definitely try when sightseeing, such as salmon and hokke seafood unique to port towns, haskap, Tomakomai ramen, sweets "Yoitomake" using haskap, Tarumae Genghis Khan, and Kitayori curry!

We will continue to send out recommended information full of charm of Tomakomai that could not be written in this post, so thank you!

Hello! ?‍♀️
Shintoku Tourism Association.

Next weekend, Sunday, April 30, the cherry blossom festival at Shintoku Shrine Mountain, which had been canceled due to Coronavirus pandemic, will be held for the first time in four years.

On the day of the event, in addition to brass band performances ? and Shintoku Ondo performances in the precincts of Shintoku Shrine ⛩ from the morning ?, there is also a karaoke contest ? of jumping ants, and an exciting fun lottery ? from noon.

The approximately 2,300 Ezo Yamazakura ? trees that spread around the precincts of Mt. Shintoku are one of the most famous cherry blossom viewing spots in Hokkaido, and today's cherry ✨ blossoms are still in bloom for about 2 minutes when some of them have begun to bloom. Maybe the best time to see it is around the end of the month?

Please take a look at ? ♪♪♪ the new mountain cherry blossoms for the festival this year.

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#Tokachi
#Shintoku
#Shintoku Tourism Association
#Shintoku Shrine
#Ezo Yamazakura
#Best time to see
#Cherry Blossom Festival
#Open air
#Karaoke
#Barbecue
#Fun raffle

Yubari City, Hokkaido is located in the central Hokkaido region of central Hokkaido and is a city with many attractive sightseeing spots interwoven with nature and history.

When many people hear the name "Yubari City", the words "Yubari Melon" and "Financially Bankrupt City" may come to mind.

Yubari City also once prospered due to the coal industry, one of the main industries of the Japan.
However, as time changed and the demand for coal decreased, Yubari City was affected by it, and by 1990, all the coal mines were closed and the city was in a difficult situation.
After that, it experienced financial collapse in 2007, but now measures are being taken to revitalize the city.

Yubari City has such a history, but it is about 60 minutes from New Chitose Airport, the northern gateway, and about 90 minutes from Sapporo, making it a popular tourist destination.
At the Yubari City Coal Museum, you can learn about the history of the coal industry in Yubari City and learn about the development of Yubari City.
Dynamic exhibitions that utilize actual coal mining sites as tourism resources are popular and have become a place visited by many tourists.

Yubari City is rich in nature as well as from the summit of Mt. Yubari at an altitude of 1,668 meters, and a 360-degree panoramic view spreads out, and you can see the beautiful scenery of the four seasons.
In addition, with the completion of the Yubari Shuparo Dam in 2015, you can enjoy aquatic activities such as canoeing at Lake Shuparo, which has become the fourth largest water reservoir in the Japan.
At the waterfall top park, colorful flowers and trees grow over, and you can feel the four seasons of Yubari City closely.
The "Chidoriga Falls" in the park is a superb view of countless large and small waterfalls and strangely shaped rocks.

If you come to Yubari City for sightseeing, please enjoy gourmet food and masterpieces.
Speaking of Yubari City, Yubari Melon! Why not taste the sweet and juicy Yubari melon in summer?
Yubari potatoes and canned beans are also popular gourmets.

The population was 116,000 in 1960, when coal mining flourished, but today it is less than 7,000.
Yubari City is sometimes compared to a ghost town, but if you actually visit, you can learn about the history of Japan industry and enjoy nature and gourmet food.

After about 16 years since 2007, Yubari City has reached the goal of paying off its debt in four years.
In order for citizens and tourists to come back to Yubari City after paying off their debts, we would like to introduce the attractions such as sightseeing spots and history of Yubari City in the Cool Japan Video!