Tuesday, February 19, 2019
Hokkaido Explorer

Hokkaido Explorer

What is happening in Hokkaido?

  • Whats On
    • Around the Web
      • Iwanai Resort open for business.
      • Updates to the Muslim Friendly Map
      • Just what you need for Winter!
      • Hokkaido Wilds free Skiing, touring and hiking website.
      • Latest issue of “What’s on in Sapporo?”.
      • A taste of Kyushu in downtown Sapporo. Izakaya “Fuuri”
      • German Christmas in the heart of Sapporo
    • News
      • Earthquake information
      • Hokkaido Explorer reports for NHK World.
  • Food and Drink
    • After almost 25 years, Kirin Beer Garden will close.
    • Delicious lamb BBQ
    • 年越しそば “New-Year noodles”
    • Eating out in December/ January.
    • Events
    • Eating in Japan
      • Izakaya “Nora” in Kushiro city.
      • Delicious fried chicken in Otaru.
      • The Magic of the Local Izakaya
      • When people think of “Yakiniku”, they think of Kitami.
  • Around Town
    • Sparkle & shine.
    • MORIHICO.STAY&COFFEE
    • The 2018 SAPPORO SNOW FESTIVAL
    • Fresh seafood from all over Hokkaido.
    • Mikasa City Museum
    • Sapporo Beer Garden in Odori Park.
  • Tours and Outdoors
    • Outdoors
      • Let’s go to Iwanai! Book your CAT tour today!
      • Getting to Asahiyama zoo in Asahikawa.
      • Hokkaido Treasure Island Travel
      • Tsurui Dosanko Ranch
    • Near the city
      • Sapporo Travel: Mt. Moiwa Ropeway
      • Day Tripper: Noboribetsu
    • Worth the Hike
      • Annual Shikotsuko Ice Festival and illumination near Sapporo.
      • Okhotsk Sky Tower
    • Travel
      • Never been a better time to visit Hokkaido.
      • Iwanai resort is open for business!
      • Ishikari Salmon Festival.
    • Explorer’s Journal
      • Let Travel Hokkaido guide you on your next trip.
      • Enjoy the beautiful Autumn foliage around Hokkaido
      • Opinion piece: Should you cancel your trip to Hokkaido?
      • Explore Hokkaido’s beautiful coastline. Visit Erimo Misaki.
      • Visit beautiful Kushiro!
      • Still time to go camping!
      • Abashiri Prison
      • Shige Chan Land ・シゲチャンランド
  • Living in Japan
    • Explorer’s corner

Niseko

Outdoors Tours 

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

January 31, 2018January 31, 2018 Hokkaido Explorer 1990 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 553 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 4002 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 6219 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 1638 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 9131 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 9088 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 6698 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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