The Hokkaido Seabird Center in Haboro and the offshore islands of Teuri and Yagishiri — 800,000 rhinoceros auklets, the biggest seabird breeding colony in Japan, and how to plan the deep-Hokkaido ferry trip.
Hokkaido
Travel guide to Hokkaido — wildflowers, national parks, Sapporo.
Inside Kamiyubetsu Tulip Park in Yubetsu, eastern Hokkaido — 700,000 tulip plants across 7 hectares, 200 Dutch-imported cultivars, and a month-long May festival. Plus the adjacent Tulip no Yu onsen.
Takinoue Park in eastern Hokkaido turns into one of Japan’s biggest continuous moss phlox carpets every May — 10 hectares of shibazakura started by a single 1957 crate of seedlings. Festival dates, travel logistics, what to combine it with.
Inside Rishiri-Rebun-Sarobetsu National Park at the top of Hokkaido — Rishiri-Fuji’s 1,721m summit climb, Rebun’s endemic alpine flora, the Cape-to-Cape hiking trail, and how to plan around the weather.