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Travel / Tourism

Matsumae Park

4.5

63 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Hokkaido Matsumaegunmatsumaechou Matsushiro

Public park in Matsumae Town, Matsumae County, Hokkaido. This is a well known historical area where people come to see the Matsumae Clan Mansion including Matsumae Castle. It is also famous for its flowers where you can enjoy blossoms all year round with cherry blossoms, roses, tree peonies and hydrangeas. Join us in the spring for the popular Matsumae Sakura Festival and in August for the Matsumae Hydrangea Festival.

This is one of the few place in Japan which provide late cherry blossom. This place doesnt seem to be popular among travel agents. Hence, not many people come here, which makes this park even more...
Roadside Station Shikabe Geyser Park

4.0

111 Reviews

Transportation

Hokkaido Kayabegunshikabechou Shikabe 18-1

A roadside station located in Shikabe Town with a geyser on its grounds. Discovered in 1924, the geyser blows every 12 minutes or so; the roadside station also has a footbath filled with waters from the hot spring that fuels the geyser. In the local specialty products shop, you can buy marine products like Shikabe cod roe, fresh seafood, and local vegetables. There's an adjoining facility offering hot spring-steamed and barbecued food. Women from the Shikabe Fishery Cooperative serve seafood dishes in the Hama no Kasan Shokudo restaurant and also hold short classes on how to make local meals.

We had the local cuisine experience at Hamano Kaasan, to learn cooking with fishermans wives and this place was just next to it. We had a good 10-15 minute foot bath ( I believe the admission fee...
Kaiyo Maru (the Last Battleship of the Tokugawa Shogunate) Museum

4.0

75 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Hokkaido Hiyamagunesashichou Ubagamichou 1-10

The warship Kaiyou Maru struck a reef and sank off Esashi, Hokkaido in December 1868. 122 years later, in April 1990, a full-size replica of the frigate was completed. The replica ship now houses displays about the history of the late Tokugawa shogunate and about the different technologies used in the ship. Some of the approximately 33,000 artifacts salvaged from the wreck of the original ship are also on display; visitors can see how the artifacts are preserved, and can also experience a ship-sailing simulator. The museum is located approximately one hour and 50 minutes’ bus ride (Hakodate Bus company) from Hakodate Station.

Nice facsimile, looks good in the photos, but would sorely disappoint the marine historian. There are exhibits inside however we didnt go in as there were exhibits on display in he visitors centre...
Roadside Station Misogi-no-sato Kikonai

4.0

58 Reviews

Transportation

Hokkaido Kamisogunkikonaichou Honchou 338-14

Roadside station along Hokkaido Route 383 in Kikonai Town, Kamiiso, Hokkaido. Located right by Kikonai Station on the Hokkaido Bullet Train Line, here you can find their resident tourism concierges. Try the Misogi salt ice cream, or popular Italian restaurant Dounan de's Ocuda Spirits, supervised by the internationally successful chef Masayuki Okuda. The building was also constructed using local Japanese cypress.

木古内駅の真ん前にある道の駅です。種類豊富な土産品売場やしっかりしたレストランなど、非常に良い道の駅で便利に利用できました。
Roadside Station Kuromatsunai

4.0

28 Reviews

Transportation

Hokkaido Suttsugunkuromatsunaichou Shiroikawa 8-10

The roadside station is on National Route 5 in Kuromatsunai Town, Suttsu County, Hokkaido. It has a bakery on site, which makes over 60 types of bread using 100% Hokkaido grown wheat. They also have a pizza restaurant, Pizza Do, where pizza artists bake yours to order, making it a hit with tourists and locals alike.

札幌と函館のほぼ中間地点にある道の駅。洒落た欧風調の建物でした。ここはピザとパンが売りのようで焼きたてのピザを食べてる人を多々見かけました。パンもほぼ売り切れてて少しだけ残ってた調理パンを購入。今日の宿で夜食でいただくことにしました。近隣の道の駅とは少々毛色が異なりチーズ・ワインの販売や四国の姉妹都市の品が販売されてました。観光客のみならず地元民の憩いの場となってるような道の駅でした。
Matsumaehan Yashiki

4.0

45 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Hokkaido Matsumaegunmatsumaechou Nishidate 68

A theme park located in Nishidate, Matsumae Town, Matsumae County, Hokkaido Prefecture. A recreation of a townscape of Matsume as it looked when it was a prosperous castle town in the Edo period, the park consists of 14 buildings, including a samurai mansion and merchant homes. Visitors can try on Japanese armor, make Matsumae-zuke (Matsumae-style pickles), and taste the atmosphere of Edo period.

松前公園の一番奥、外れにあります。隣には広い駐車場もありますが、天守からはちょっと離れています。天守から歩くと上り坂を１０分ほどかかります。途中に松前藩の墓所があったり楽しめますが。藩屋敷は小さなテーマパークになっていて、通りに面して当時を再現した家屋が並んでいます。旅籠や商家、民家などで靴を脱いで自由に出入りすることができます。奥には門構えも立派な武家屋敷もあります。ただ、ども家屋も通りに面し...
Esashi Oiwake Hall / Esashi Dashi Hall

4.0

40 Reviews

Leisure / Hobbies

Hokkaido Hiyamagunesashichou Nakautachou 193-3

Esashi oiwake is music or poetry sung in praise of the people born and raised in the harsh surroundings of the northern lands. Esashi Oiwake Hall was built in 1982 in order to preserve this local culture. Inside the hall are rooms to practice singing, informative displays about esashi oiwake as well as a seminar room where you can learn all about this art. You can also see the floats used during the Togyosai ceremonial procession from Ubagami Daijingu Shrine. To get to Esashi Oiwake Hall takes about one and a half hours by car from Hakodate and about two hours by bus from JR Hakodate Station.

Great traditional singing but more interesting was the carriages used in a local festival and exhibited in the same venur
Yokozuna Chiyonoyama & Chiyonofuji Memorial Museum

4.0

34 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Hokkaido Matsumaegunfukushimachou Fukushima 190

A museum located in Fukushima Town, Matsumae District dedicated to Chiyonoyama and Chiyonofuji, the 41st and 58th yokozunas (sumo wrestling grand champions), respectively. Chiyonoyama and Chiyonofuji were born in Fukushima Town, and this museum presents the achievements of these two mighty wrestlers. Two bronze statues of the wrestlers stand in front of the museum. Dazzling dress mawashi wrestling belts, championship cups, and National Honor Awards are displayed in the Yokozuna Memorial Hall. The museum also issues replicas of the handprints of Chiyonoyama and Chiyonofuji together, a popular souvenir for sumo fanatics.

団体旅行で函館駅発(道南いさりび鉄道）に乗った翌日横綱千代の山・千代の富士記念館に寄りました。ほとんどの人が相撲好きなので、過去の取り組みの映像で大盛り上がりして賜杯賞状化粧まわし羽織などを見て稽古場で相撲談議でそー言えば刺繍が手がこんで素晴らしいけど、あの重さはどのくらいあるんだろうねえ-ということで受付に若い男女がいたので聞いてみたところ（わかりませ-ん）それはない...
Roadside Station Assabu

3.5

26 Reviews

Transportation

Hokkaido Hiyamagunassabuchou Midorimachi 72-1

A roadside station built with asunaro cypress located in Assabu Town. The station sells May Queen potatoes, a variety which became a local specialty product in Assabu in 1925, as well as asparagus, corn, and other fresh vegetables; black soybean tea; potato shochu, and other foods and drinks. Live music performances and other events are held in the spacious rest area and you can also buy a popular soft serve ice cream here as well as drinks and snacks, croquettes, and other tasty treats made with May Queen potatoes.

日本海側の八雲から渡島半島を縦断した最中、休憩に最適なスポットでした。メークインの故郷だそうで、ほかにも地元の農産物が所狭しと並べられていて、買い物客で混雑していました。
Matsumae Castle Museum

Travel / Tourism

Hokkaido Matsumae-gun Matsumaecho Matsushiro 144-banchi

Matsumae Castle is Japan's northernmost castle and was completed in 1854 after its predecessor structure, the Fukuyama Palace, was renovated and reinforced. The castle was created to provide defense in the closing days of the Tokugawa shogunate when many foreign ships began appearing in Japan's coastal waters. The castle's original wooden tower was destroyed in a fire in 1949. A reinforced concrete reconstruction, which looks identical to the original on the outside, was completed in 1961 and opened as the Matsumae Castle Museum. Inside, the museum displays archeological artefacts and numerous other items which tell the history of Matsumae Castle.
Former Nakamura Family Residence

4.5

27 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Hokkaido Hiyamagunesashichou Nakautachou 22

These historical buildings were built by Omi merchants who were engaged in the wholesale seafood business from the end of the Edo period to the Meiji period, and are representative of wholesale buildings of the time. There is a two-story gabled main building made of cypress storehouses lining the streets from the main house to the shore and a loading and unloading place called “Hanedashi” at the far end. The buildings bring the glory of the past to the present and also show displays of material related to the Kitamae ship and herring fishing industries.

江差町の市街地を走っている国道２２８号線。その国道沿いに、旧中村家住宅はありました。この住宅は、江戸時代から日本海沿岸の漁家を相手に商売を営んでいた近江商人の大橋宇兵衛という人が建てたそうです。板でできている外壁が続く、かなりの大きさの二階建ての建物でした。
Roadside Station Shiriuchi

3.0

35 Reviews

Transportation

Ueno-cho, Ueno-gun, Hokkaido 48-13 Yunosato

A roadside station located in Shiriuchi Town where a Paleolithic grave site, the oldest in Japan, was discovered. The site is now a National Important Cultural Property. In the local specialty products shop, you can buy garlic chives, tomatoes, shiitake mushrooms, and other vegetables grown in Shiriuchi Town, as well as marine products like cuttlefish salted and dried overnight. Shiriuchi Town is also the birthplace of the famous enka folk singer Saburo Kitajima and you can find merchandise featuring the artists here as well. Staff in the tourist information center inside the shop can provide you with information about the town and give you tourism pamphlets.

松前町から国道２２８号線を函館を目指して走りました。北海道最南端の白神岬を過ぎ、福島町の市街地を過ぎると、山間部を通っていきます。知内町の市街地まであと数ｋｍほどのところに、こちらの道の駅がありました。道の駅自体はあまり特徴がない小さな道の駅なんですが、すぐとなりに「新幹線展望塔」があり、青函トンネルを抜けて北海道に上陸した直後の新幹線が見られる場所でした。
Fukushima Town Seikan Tunnel Museum

3.5

22 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Hokkaido Matsumaegunfukushimachou Mitake 32-1

A museum presenting equipment used to dig the Seikan Tunnel, the longest undersea tunnel in the world, as well as the experiences of the people involved. Inside the exhibition tunnel, you can see Japan's first tunnel boring machine and get a taste of what construction was like under the tunnel's harsh conditions. The tunnel theater shows videos of the tunnel under construction, while on the tunnel tour you can see recreations of construction work and walk a tunnel heading down 140 meters below the ocean surface.

入った最初部分が洞爺丸事故などやその後のトンネル工事の機運が高まった状況などの記事などが時系列に並べられています。その先には工事着工から完成までの一連の流れがVTRになったものが流されています。それ以外にも工事に関する資料や模型がいくつか展示されており、スペースはそこまで広くないものの展示内容は充実していると思います。じっくり見ていると１時間はあっという間に過ぎてしまいました。
Onuma Yusen

4.0

19 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Hokkaido Kamedagunnanaechou Onumachou 1023-1

Onuma Yusen is a pleasure boat on which you can relax and enjoy the Onuma Quasi-National Park, which includes three lakes and Mt. Komagatake and is one of Japan’s Top Three New Views. The Island Circuit route runs regularly from May to October, and you can relax while going round the islands on Onuma Lake and Konuma Lake which requires about 30 minutes. There are also motor boats, rowing boats, and pedal boats, and winter activities such as snow mobiles on the ice, 4-wheel buggies and snowshoe tours can also be enjoyed in the winter.

もしかすると違う業者かもしれませんが、大沼公園駅近くの観光案内所でワカサギ釣り体験を案内していただき訪問しました。アクティビティー価格は周辺の業者さんの価格に比べて全てに於いてかなり割高ですが手軽なので利用しました。訪問時は無風だったので湖上でのんびり釣りを行う事が出来ました。１.５時間で３０匹程度釣り上げる事が出来ましたが、お土産の唐揚げには２皿分の代金請求があったため１皿分調理をお願いし...
Our Lady of the Lighthouse Trappist Monastery

Travel / Tourism

Hokkaido Hokutoshi Mitsuishi 392

This monastery in Hokuto, Hokkaido is one of Japan's first. Visitors are free to look around the red brick buildings of the monastery and enjoy the sakura, autumn leaves, and other joys of the seasons. There is also a shop offering Trappist Cookies, butter, and other products made by the monks. Due to a prohibition of women, internal tours require reservations and are for men only.
Kaminokuni Hachimangu Shrine

3.5

4 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Hokkaido Hiyamagunkaminokunichou Kaminokuni 238

A Shinto shrine built by the samurai Takeda Nobuhiro in 1473 and is said to be the oldest shrine in Hokkaido. The current main shrine building was built in 1699 and due to its historical value as an example of old Shinto shrines in Hokkaido, it has been designated a Tangible Cultural Property by the town of Kaminokuni. During the Edo period, the shrine was patronized by the Matsumae clan, and letters from Matsumae Michihiro and Matsumae Akihiro, the 13th and 14th heads of the clan, respectively, are kept among the shrine's treasures. A Japanese hackberry tree, selected as one of the most beautiful trees in Hokkaido, grows on the shrine's grounds.

古くから栄えた道南の日本海側に位置する上ノ国町。その旧市街地にある歴史感あふれる神社が、こちらの上ノ国八幡宮です。創建は、1473年と言いますから、北海道では最も歴史のある神社のひとつではないでしょうか。本殿に使われている木材を見てもその古さがよくわかりました。この本殿は1699年の建立で、北海道内に現存する神社建築では最古のものなんだそうです。
Kijihiki Highland (Panorama Observatory)

Travel / Tourism

Hokkaido Hokutoshi Murayama 174

An observatory on Kijihiki Highland in Hokuto City. Located 560 meters above sea level, the observatory offers a 360 degree panoramic view of the Ono Plain, the streets of Hakodate, Mt. Hakodate, Lake Onuma, and Mt. Komagatake. On clear days, visitors can also see an elevated bridge used by the Hokkaido Shinkansen. An indoor observatory facility was built here in 2015. The facility has a rest space, vending machines, and toilets, and can be used as a rest point when going on a scenic drive. The facility is closed after 20:00 and thus cannot be used at night.
Roadside Station Esashi

Transportation

Hokkaido Hiyamagunesashichou Oyamachou 1

Roadside Station in Esashi, Hiyama County, Hokkaido. See the bronze statue of quick-witted Shigejiro, a famous local comedian. Check out the Shigejiro Laughter Store where you can purchase Shigejiro merchandise. You can also use the Shigejiro Banya Simple Lodging Facility which has beds, baths and a kitchen. Reservations can be made between April and November.
Cape Shirakami

Travel / Tourism

Hokkaido Matsumaegunmatsumaechou Shirakami

Designated as the Matsumae Yagoshi Prefectural Natural Park, Cape Shirakami is the southern most cape in Hokkaido. Below you extend a peculiar sight with rough curiously shaped rocks and sea cliffs, and on a clear day, one can see Tappisaki, the northern most point on the Tsugaru Peninsula on the opposite shore. In the spring and autumn, this area is a stopping point for migrating birds. Depending on the season, one can see around 300 varieties of the over 500 varieties of wild birds known to live in Japan. The Shirakami lighthouse, visible from the national highway, signifies the border between Hakodate and Matsumae.
Tsuiki Farm

4.0

1 Reviews

Leisure / Hobbies

Hokkaido Kameda-gun Nanaecho Narukawa 4-297

This fruit farm spreads out at the foot of Mt. Yokotsu, where the temperature differential is large and the environment perfect for fruit. They offer fruit like strawberries, cherries, plums and blueberries grown with low agricultural chemicals and no artificial fertilizers. This farm stands out for its huge variety, which they adopted with the idea that customers could come at any time and find a surprise waiting to be picked. Strawberry picking starts from late June, cherries are in July, and apples start in September. Unusually for fruit picking farms, they don't require reservations. Their environmentally-friendly low-chemical use means they are certified Eco Farmers.

夏にかけていろいろな果物狩りを楽しむことができます。いちごやサクランボやプルーンなどを収穫してすぐに食べることができます。

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Hokkaido Areas

Not just a prefecture but an island of its own, Hokkaido is the most northerly prefecture and island of the Japanese archipelago. Arriving in Hokkaido, which is rural and bursting with breathtaking nature, means entering a world where vast national parks, towering mountains, and natural hot springs can be found at every turn. Come December, these natural splendors freeze over and morph into a winter wonderland.