Best Spots With Great Nature In Hokkaido・Tohoku

Must Visit Place In Biei, Hokkaido! Very Mysterious Blue PondBlue Pond

You can enjoy seeing various scenes of Blue Pond throughout the year. The autumn colors of larch trees, and winter illumination before freezing in December, I like.

Cape Kamui Of Beautiful Shakotan Blue Sea & Dynamic Great NatureCape Kamui

You can overlook the sea of Shakotan Blue while walking along the a little scary narrow path and steps. When you turn round, there's beautiful great nature of the Cape Kamui.

The Superb View of Viridity in Goshikinuma Lakes, Let's Go Seeing this Blue Pond as Beautiful as the Famous Blue Lake in BieiGoshikinuma Lakes

The Goshikinuma lakes is famous for the beautiful colored leaves in autumn. Furthermore the contrast between the green of viridity and the blue of lake in summer is wonderful. The wind and viridity tempt you to visit here, let's go!

A Palette Of Earth Drawn By Flowers & Greens! Panoramic Flower GardensPanoramic Flower Gardens Shikisai no Oka

Shikisai-no Oka is a famous scenic place in Biei, Hokkaido. The scenery of farm products and flowers on a hill is beautiful and bright like a colorful paints on a palette. A cart you can drive in the garden is also exciting!◎Green season is from the end of April to the end of October.

Autumn Leaves and Emerald Green Color Water Goshikinuma Lakes, Bishamon Lake

Bishamon-numa, one of the Goshiki Lakes in Fukushima Prefecture. It's a beautiful place all year round, but it's especially popular during the fall foliage. You can also ride a rowing boat.

Ice Monsters! Snow Trees Covered With Ice & SnowZao

These fir trees covered with snow and ice have so strange shapes that they're called 'Ice Monster'! On every around February, you can enjoy snow trees, skiing and walking at the top of the mountains in Zao, Yamagata Pref.◎Access: take bus from Yamagata Station to Zao Onsen Hot Spring Town. Parking lot is available for cars. Take ropeway from Zao Onsen, and you can see the snow trees from the mountain top. By the way, humid coldness is unbearable, you must make doubly sure for winter clothes!

A Bridge To The Sky! Panoramic View You Can Enjoy The Great NatureShiretoko Goko Lakes

An elevated wooden path to Ichi-ko Lake, one of the five lakes of Shiretoko. The 800 meters path seems to stretch beautifully to the sky, and the mountain range of Shiretoko and the Sea of Okhotsk are truly breathtaking scenery! Even small children use the path safely for it's barrier-free.◎You can use this path for free during it opens.

Introduced In TV & Magazines! Great Spot To Take Pictures Of HokkaidoHarunire Tree

Harunire Tree is about 140 years old. It looks a single tree, but in fact, two trees have nestled each other and grown together. It shows us various scenery in every season.

Oirase Mountain Stream Of Refreshing Scenery & Negative IonsOirase Stream

Impressive lush greens and rich wet air. Fast and slow streams offer the different scenery of the mountain. And you can find hydrangeas on the walking paths in this rainy reason.

Like A Garden Gods Playing. Summer Asahi-dake Mountains With Blooming Alpine PlantsMt. Asahidake

The highest mountain in Hokkaido, Asahi-dake. There's a waking path around the pond, and the mountain is beautifully reflected in the water surface. During spring and summer, alpine plants blooms all over the sight, and in autumn, leaves turn pure red. You can enjoy impressive beautiful scenery.

The Deepest And Clear Blue Lake. One Of The Best 100 Scenes In Japan!Tazawa Lake

Tazawa Lake lies in east of Akita and near the boundary between Iwate. It has a proud depth of 423.4m and the clarity is so high that the lake has deep blue color.

It's Like Uyuni Salt Lake! The Beautiful Reflections At TodowaraNotsuki Peninsula

Todowara is a place called 'the end of the world' because of the scenery of dead trees eroded by the sea. The scenery changes with the tide, and specially, the reflections on the calm sea in early morning was so amazing that I associated with the famous Uyuni Salt Lake! In winter, you can enjoy walking on the frozen surface while watching the horizon.

Mysterious Greenish-Blue Pond Never Be Frozen In Freezing WinterKami no Koike (God's Small Pond)

When Ainu people found this greenish-blue pond, they thought it was a present from God because of its beauty. It never be frozen even in winter, and it's like a jewel looks more mysterious in snow.

Lake Akan Famous For Moss Ball As A Special Natural MonumentLake Akan

Lake Akan is famous for moss ball (Marimo). I feel refreshed to gaze the huge blue lake. You can enjoy cruise and staying hotels nearby.

1.5 Million Sunflowers At Japan's Largest Sunflower FieldHokuryu Himawari-no Sato (Sunflower Field)

Sunflower Festival at Hokuryu Himawari-no Sato is the largest scale one in Japan. You can see as many as 1.5 million sunflowers and enjoy flower maze that appears every year. The best season is August!◎Sunflower Festival in 2018: 7/14-8/19. I'd love for you to try ice cream with sunflower seeds sold only here! Sunflower Maze requires the fee, but the sunflower field is free.

Panoramic View of Matsushima, One of the Magnificent Landscapes in Japan, From the Mt. OtakamoriOdakamori Observatory

I recommend the place called Shidaikan Soukan as a scenic spot. When you go there, you have to walk mountain trails for approximately 20 minutes. But the great view is worth visiting. If you see it, your tiredness disappears soon.

Rice Plant Arts At The Place Of OriginInakadate Rice Plant Art

Inakadate Village is the birthplace of rice plant art. It's very impressive for us to see such a huge art made up by only rice that we eat everyday. You can enjoy the natural art changing its colors day by day.

A Flower Garden With Flittering ButterflyWind Garden

Wind Garden at New Furano Prince Hotel is a British garden that was used in a scene of TV drama. More than 400 kinds of flowers proudly bloom in each season. The gentle colors and the scenery of flittering butterflies and bees looks like a paradise!◎In 2017, they open from 4/29~10/16

Flying Swing You Can Feel Like Heidi And Being United With NatureIwaki Gallery Museum

A lesser known place that even a few local people know. Pictures drawn by elementary school students in Iwaki city are exhibited at this small museum in the wood. And, going through the museum, there're swings hung on trees! Both two swings command nice view.◎No entrance fee. No regular holidays. Toll parking lot is available.

300 Years Old Huge Ginkgo Tree That Seems To MoveHirosaki Park

There're many old trees that are supposed to be more than 100 years old at Hirosaki Park. Among them, this ginkgo tree supposed to be 300 years old and seems to move any moment for the root are naked, is worth seeing very much.