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What is happening in Hokkaido?

  • Whats On
    • Hanami spots in Sapporo
    • Hokkaido Wilds free Skiing, touring and hiking website.
    • Around the Web
      • Amazing BBQ in Kitami city.
    • News
      • Earthquake information
      • Hokkaido Explorer reports for NHK World.
  • Food and Drink
    • Gyoza Bar
    • Eats on the cheaps in Hakodate!
    • Snacking in Susukino.
    • Events
    • Eating in Japan
      • Izakaya “Nora” in Kushiro city.
      • Delicious fried chicken in Otaru.
  • Around Town
    • Fresh seafood from all over Hokkaido.
  • Tours and Outdoors
    • Outdoors
      • Tsurui Dosanko Ranch
    • Near the city
      • Sapporo Travel: Mt. Moiwa Ropeway
    • Worth the Hike
      • Okhotsk Sky Tower
    • Travel
    • Explorer’s Journal
      • The Sapporo White Illumination
      • The Shirogane Blue Pond in Biei.
      • Spring in Kushiro city.
      • Let Travel Hokkaido guide you on your next trip.
      • Visit beautiful Kushiro!
      • Abashiri Prison
  • Living in Japan
    • Changing visas in Japan.
    • Explorer’s corner
  • Web Writer

Niseko

Outdoors Tours 

Let’s go to Iwanai! Book your CAT tour today!

January 31, 2018January 31, 2018 Hokkaido Explorer 3256 Views events, hokkaido, Kutchan, Niseko, powder snow, Sapporo, Travel

We recently went to Osaka’s famous Ebisu bridge to talk to the locals about Iwanai. For more information about this

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Special Offers TOURS and OUTDOORS 

Free ski day pass to all foreigners living in Hokkaido!

January 6, 2018 Hokkaido Explorer 1690 Views hokkaido, iwanai, Kutchan, Niseko, Ski, snow

Hello Explorers! Get ready to mark off those calendars! @iwanairesort is offering all you expats and friends from out of

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Travel 

Iwanai resort is open for business!

December 12, 2017 Hokkaido Explorer 6559 Views events, festival, hokkaido, iwanai, japanese food, Niseko, Sapporo, Ski

Hokkaido Explorer is very happy to announce that our good friends @iwanairesort resort will be opening their doors for the 2017~18 ski

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Hirafu main intersection
Outdoors TOURS and OUTDOORS 

Niseko: A winter wonderland

January 26, 2017January 26, 2017 Hokkaido Explorer 7592 Views Niseko, photos, snow

A photo essay by Chris Barnes (also see this  interview with Barnes) Niseko is known as one of the best ski

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Around Town Festivals Food and Drink Outdoors Whats On 

Welcome to October ・ 10月へようこそ

October 4, 2016October 5, 2016 Hokkaido Explorer 4000 Views autumn, eniwa, festival, hokkaido, Kutchan, Niseko, Otaru, Sapporo, Travel

Hi all and welcome to a summary of what’s happening around Hokkaido this October! First of all Sapporo, International Friendship

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Food and Drink Restaurants 

Rice Cakes and Coffee: The Rise of Niseko Restaurants

April 3, 2013February 29, 2016 Geoffrey Leach 10713 Views Kutchan, Niseko, restaurants

Up our way they say “ki ni mochi ga naru” — rice cakes grow on trees. Why, because residents of

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TOURS and OUTDOORS 

Horseshoes and Back Bowls: An Avalanche Epic

February 27, 2013March 1, 2016 Geoffrey Leach 10834 Views avalance, Niseko

Niels Bohr was a Nobel physicist famous for his humorous jousts with Einstein. Legend has it that he was once

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Uncategorized 

Yotei Views: A Stradivarius in Niseko

February 15, 2013February 16, 2013 Geoffrey Leach 7591 Views Australia, concerts, Kutchan, Niseko

Some years ago, the Australian Chamber Orchestra ‘miraculously’ appeared at Hanazono 308 just a couple of hundred yards down the

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