Culture Otaru Snow Light Path Festival 2025 Serena Ogawa Otaru Snow Light Path Festival is just a quick trip from Sapporo and offers a romantic romp through a candlelit snowscape.
Culture Abashiri Prison Museum, Hokkaido Rey Waters A very interesting attraction found in Eastern Hokkaido is the Abashiri Prison Museum. The exhibits bring to life what priso...
Culture Yubari Fantastic Film Festival 2024 Bonson Lam This little town in the depths of Hokkaido hosts to what it claims to be "The most fun movie festival in the world", so it is...
Culture A Night at Susukino Matsuri Sandro Bernardinello Sapporo's Matsuri is a truly Japanese experience, one that you will awake the next day, thinking it was all a dream, making i...
Culture Buddha Hill in Makomanai Mar'yana Kovalchuk Designed by the Pritzker-winner architect Tadao Ando, this is a sanctuary of peace and meditation.
Culture Otaru in a Day Euan Prentis Otaru's interesting history as a mercantile and financial center in Hokkaido is very well preserved to this day. To get the m...
Culture Otaru Music Box Museum Euan Prentis The Otaru Music Box Museum is spread across a number of buildings around the Ironai-dori area, which in all contains over 25,...
Culture The Republic of Ezo Euan Prentis Goryokaku Park holds colourful cherry blossoms, calm open-grounds, and a powerful history as the former seat of the short-liv...
Culture The Old Public House of Hakodate Euan Prentis Motomachi's colourful crown jewel, its old public house, brings Hakodate culture, social life, and design together in one sma...
15 Culture European Architecture in Hakodate Euan Prentis One of Hakodate's most striking characteristics is its cosmopolitan nature, a result of an extensive relationship with the in...
