Northern Circuit Voyage Tips and guide

The Northern Circuit (道北 Dōhoku) covers the northern and inner part of the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido.

Understand

Tourist information site

The local tourist associations have a multilingual web info catalogue, do-hoku.com for the whole area.

Cities

44°10′16″N 142°20′38″E

Map of Northern Circuit

43.766667142.3666671 Asahikawa (旭川市 Asahikawa-shi) – Hokkaido's second-largest city, famed for being the coldest place in Japan
43.35142.3833332 Furano (富良野市 Furano-shi) — Popular ski resort with near-guaranteed perfect powder
44.355833142.4633333 Nayoro (名寄市 Nayoro-shi)
43.55141.9166674 Shibetsu (士別市 Shibetsu-shi)
45.415667141.6730565 Wakkanai (稚内市 Wakkanai-shi) – Japan's northernmost town

Towns and villages

43.583333142.4666676 Biei (美瑛町 Biei-chō)
43.847778142.7702787 Kamikawa (上川町 Kamikawa-chō)
- 43.7284142.94981 Sounkyo Onsen (層雲峡 Sōunkyō)

42.983333142.48 Shimukappu (占冠村 Shimukappu-mura)
45.016667141.859 Horonobe (幌延町 Horonobe-chō)

Other destinations

Rishiri-Rebun-Sarobetsu National Park
- 45.183333141.252 Rishiri Island (利尻島 Rishiri-tō)
- 45.35141.0166673 Rebun Island (礼文島 Rebun-tō)
43.660278142.8580564 Daisetsuzan National Park (大雪山国立公園 Daisetsuzan Kokuritsu Kōen)

Get in

By plane

Asahikawa Airport (AKJ^IATA)
Wakkanai Airport (WKJ^IATA)

By train

JR Rumoi Line
JR Soya Line

By boat

Wakkanai Port - Ferry from Korsakov, Sakhalin, Russia.

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