Global Autumn Chasing|This is what Hokkaido looks like next!
When it comes to Hokkaido, everyone always thinks of the romantic winter with snow, but in fact, the autumn in Hokkaido is equally charming!
🍁Viewing period
The autumn in Hokkaido comes earlier, usually from mid to late October to early November. This year's specific date prediction can refer to the Japan Meteorological Association and weathernews.
📌Itinerary recommendation
DAY1 Domestic—New Chitose—Lake Shikotsu ⭕Lake Shikotsu⭕Marukoma Onsen
DAY2 Lake Shikotsu—Sapporo ⭕Nakajima Park⭕Tanukikoji
DAY3 Sapporo ⭕Nijo Market⭕White Lover Chocolate Factory⭕Clock Tower DAY4 Sapporo—Hakodate ⭕Goryokaku Park⭕Mount Hakodate
DAY5 Hakodate—Lake Toya ⭕Lake Toya
DAY6 Lake Toya—Otaru ⭕Otaru Canal⭕Comprehensive Museum
DAY7 Otaru—Noboribetsu—Sapporo ⭕Hell Valley⭕Oyunuma
DAY8 Sapporo—New Chitose—Return
👉🏻TIPS
🚞Transportation
The transportation in Hokkaido is relatively inconvenient, and the cities mainly rely on JR (or bus), so after determining the general itinerary, you can first check the time and price of transportation between cities, and then decide whether to buy JR PASS. You can buy it online in advance, or you can buy it at the airport. After purchase, you can exchange and pick up tickets at the New Chitose Airport B1 floor. If you take a designated seat, you need to draw a ticket in advance. In Hakodate, you can buy a bus one-day ticket, and you can buy a round-trip bus ticket for Lake Toya Onsen and Noboribetsu Onsen, which will be cheaper.
🛏️Accommodation
City accommodation can choose homestays, natural scenery like Lake Shikotsu and Lake Toya recommend choosing a hot spring inn with one night and two meals.
✅Others
The transition from autumn to winter in Hokkaido is very fast, and the temperature difference between day and night is large, so be sure to bring thick clothes, it may snow at any time.
Near Hokkaido Chitose Airport, the shore of Zhibu Lake is really picturesque! The airport can be reached by bus and arrive in about an hour. In winter, there is an ice wave festival, there are huge ice sculptures and snow sculptures, it is worth seeing! The lakeside scenery is beautiful, with the snow scene in winter, you can take an hour to shoot any place, you can also go to the visitor center to eat snacks and blow the heating, and some careful exhibition introduction of the cause of Zhizhu Lake and the surrounding environment and ecology. A hidden town and huge volcanic lake, a must-see place in Hokkaido!
Quiet lake water, not too many tourists disturb, the small fish at the bottom of the lake is amazing. Going to Hokkaido in summer, you can consider going here. The hot spring hotel is very good, but very expensive, the kind that is not capped. . . .
Some people like to play the lake, probably can't find the word, this word is pronounced hu, referring to the ancient emperors in the court when they met on the narrow board. I don't know if the Japanese named Wuhu Lake has this lake shape, like the reason for the board... This lake is not far from the Hell Valley, the lake is light and mountainous, there is a direct road to the city, and there is a famous Toya Lake in the same area. The overall tour is still hot springs, water projects and fish.
Dreamy fairy scenery in winter, feel ice and snow in hot springs
Chihu Lake is the northernmost unfrozen Lake in Japan, with a water depth of 363 meters, ranking second in Japan. Every year from January to February, the Chihu Ice Wave Festival is held. For one month, there are buses to the venue at the entrance of the new thousand-year-old airport. People smoke the lake water, freeze it and make some simple shapes for tourists to watch. There will be fireworks show in the evening.
Hokkaido Zhiwa Lake is the largest lake in Hokkaido and the northernmost unfrozen Lake in Japan. It is formed by volcanic eruption. Shocked by the vastness of nature, it feels like the dreamlike world of the Swiss Alps, like the unreality of the beauty of fairyland.
The snow scene is beautiful in winter after punching in the branch of Wuhu Lake.