Many imposing trees along "The Roads of Patchwork" contribute to beautification of hilly landscape.Three oaks of parent and child snuggle up with each other.
From the observatory the European-castle-like landscape formed by the 600m-long canal and 240 poplar tress on both sides can be seen. Mt. Teine also appears straight ahead.
The overlook is 3km to the south from the road station Niseko View Plaza. Visitors can enjoy the scenic veiw of rural landscape, Mt. Yotei and Mt. Niseko-Annupuri.
Facing the Sea of Okhotsk and Lake Saroma, the Japan's largest coastal meadow is so called "Ryugu Kaido (Sea Palace Road". More than 300 sorts of flowers bloom from spring to fall.
"Right after the arrival at Tarumae Garo, I saw the warning sign of bear. When I was taking a picture at the stream with no one else around, a fog suddenly appeared."
Hakodate Seibuchiku area has 18 named slopes, and most of sights are located along those slopes. Mashumaru can be seen from the famous Hachiman-zaka slope.
A raft of alpine plants grow in this 618m-high active volcano of Mt. Esan. At its foot 600,000 of azaleas bloom, and Esan Azalea Festival takes place in June.
"Now and then, a red squirel shows up in the garden gliding through the fresh green. Once and away, it looks straight to the camera waiting and seeing how things go."
The sight is on the national highway route 237 nicknamed Scenicbyway Hokkaido"Taisetsu-Furano Scenic Byway". The picturesque view of hills, pastoral land, and Tokachi-dake mountains stretch out below the flower-decolated pass,
Once the peninsula bustled with the herring fishing boats. The sea shore around Cape Kamui in combination of the sheer cliff and Shakotan blue coasts a stunning beauty.
Built in 1888, this former Hokkaido government office has another name of "Red Brick" because of its bricked western-style appearance. It is designated as a national important cultural asset.
As a symbol of Ebetsu with the long history in brick industry, this bulding is preseved. At present, it is utilized as a craft center for glass crafters.
The treasured "Shrine Water Place" was discovered in the mounds. The largest settlement of 89 archaeological remains indluding the relic of large ship has been excavated in Hakodate.
During the Ice Age around 10,000 years back, the hills was formed by the slow repetitive movement back and forth between freezing and meltdown of the ground.
The 1,140m-long and 40m-wide canal was constructed after reclaiming the offshore in the Taisho period. The rickshaws running along the canal project a nostalgic atmosphere.
The plant is endemic in Mt. Apoi-dake in the south of Hidaka Mountains growing in and around the peridotite and serpetinite zones. The flower blooms from May to June.
The lily of the valley is a perennial plant of liliaceae and a symbolic flower of Hokkaido. The plants can be seen in clusters from May to June in Takino Suzuran Hillside Park.
This is the first modern port in Hokkaido. The masonry breakwater has protected the port more than 100 years and is certified as a civil engineering heritage.
Aimed to indroduce his life and literature, the museum was built in the lot of Arishima farm in Niseko, a locale of his best work "The Descendents of Cain".
Since the Taisho period, Nopporo in Ebetsu has been a center of brick production. Today, three plants are operated, and more than 400 brick buildings stand in the city.
In the agricultural field of Hokkaido University, a variety of crops and livestocks are grown. Even in the major city, people can have a glimpse of Arcadian sceneries.