Rishirizan Jinja
An island shrine that faces Mount Rishiri. Mountain worship among a people of the sea.
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An island shrine that faces Mount Rishiri. Mountain worship among a people of the sea.
Halfway up Mount Hakodate. Sakamoto Ryoma's cousin Sawabe Takuma once served here as chief priest.
Faces the active volcano Mount Tarumae. The tutelary shrine of Tomakomai.
Said to be the oldest festival in Hokkaido. Floats parade the town in thanks for a good herring catch.
A canal built for loading cargo. Stone warehouses stand mirrored in the water.
Five lakes scattered through primeval forest. The trail runs through brown bear country.
The remains of an explosion crater 450 metres across. Nine kinds of spring water rise here.
The drill hall of Sapporo Agricultural College. The clock has kept running since 1881.
The sea presses in from both sides, and the land narrows into an hourglass of light.
Still distilled over a direct coal fire. Taketsuru Masataka chose the site for a climate close to Scotland's.
It started with snow sculptures made by junior and senior high school students. Two million people now come.
The province's central art museum, known for holding the Ecole de Paris painter Pascin in depth, alongside Hokkaido artists and studio glass.
A single-artist museum for Kotaro Migishi, born in Sapporo and dead at 31 - his whole restless change of manner fits in a few rooms.
Forty hectares of woodland holding both an indoor museum and 74 outdoor sculptures, half-buried in snow for part of the year.