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Hakodate Morning Market
9-19 Wakamatsu-cho, Hakodate, Hokkaido
One minute on foot from Hakodate Station, and the city changes register entirely.
About 250 stalls spread across roughl
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毎年1月下旬〜3月中旬
Sounkyo Ice Waterfall Festival
Sounkyo Onsen, Kamikawa, Hokkaido
In January, something is built in the gorge. The canyon walls of Sounkyo become in winter the frame for an ice festival
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通年（夏〜秋に屋外マルシェ開催）
Hakodate Kanemori Red Brick Warehouse Marché
14-12 Suehirocho, Hakodate City, Hokkaido
The Kanemori warehouses were built for trade when Hakodate was Japan's first major port to open to the West. They are re
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通年（早朝〜午前中）
Asahikawa Asappa Farm Direct Market
Kagura, Asahikawa City, Hokkaido
The Tokachi plain to the south and the Kamikawa basin that surrounds Asahikawa are among Japan's most productive agricul
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6月〜9月（メインシーズン）
Biei Panorama Hill Cycling Tour
Biei Town, Kamikawa, Hokkaido
The hills of Biei roll in long slow curves — wheat fields giving way to potato fields giving way to sunflower fields, th
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6月〜9月（メインシーズン）
Tokachi Farmstay: Sleeping in Japan's Bread Basket
Otofuke and Obihiro area, Tokachi, Hokkaido
The Tokachi plain is Japan's agricultural heartland — wheat, potatoes, dairy, sugar beet, production at a scale that the
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通年
Higashikawa: The Town That Grows Furniture and People
Higashikawa Town, Kamikawa-gun, Hokkaido
Higashikawa Town's population has been growing while most of rural Hokkaido's has been declining. The reasons are multip
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通年（週末・祝日が中心）
Obihiro Banei Racing: The Only Draft Horse Race in the World
Obihiro Racecourse, Nishi-13-jo Minami 9, Obihiro City, Hokkaido
Banei racing exists nowhere else in the world. The horses are draft breeds — heavy, powerful, built for pulling rather t
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2026年8月中旬（例年8月）
Hokkaido Shimbun Summer Fireworks
Toyohira River, Sapporo, Hokkaido
These are fireworks for a cool summer. Sapporo's warm season is brief, and that brevity makes it precious. Along the ban
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例年2月上旬（さっぽろ雪まつりとほぼ同時期・約1週間）
Asahikawa Winter Festival: The City That Built a World Record in Snow
Asahibashi riverside on the Ishikari River and Kaimono Koen, Asahikawa, Hokkaido
Asahikawa sits in the coldest basin of any major Japanese city—mornings of minus twenty are ordinary here—and every Febr
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例年1月下旬〜2月中旬
Lake Shikotsu Ice Festival: Ice Grown from a Lake That Never Freezes
Shikotsuko Onsen, Chitose, Hokkaido
Lake Shikotsu is a caldera lake south of Sapporo, among the clearest bodies of water in Japan and so deep that it never
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毎年10月上旬
Marimo Festival
There is a lake in eastern Hokkaido where a certain kind of algae grows into perfect green spheres. They are called mari