Serious safety concerns are emerging over the operations of a Hokkaido sightseeing boat that disappeared last weekend with 24 passengers and two crew on board. An ongoing search and rescue ...

Areas in Hokkaido saw some of the sharpest rises in land prices in 2024, thanks largely to foreign visitors who have ...

Hakodate, Hokkaido, is famous for hotels that serve incredible breakfasts, with competition so fierce it was once dubbed the ...

The sightseeing service will operate one round trip, mainly on weekends, for a total of 32 days until March 21, according to JR Hokkaido. All seats are reserved and require reservations.

And Hokkaido is the place to go for a real winter wonderland experience, with places like Hoshino Resort Tomamu opening dreamy ice hotels that you can actually spend a night in. Photo: Hoshino ...

Researchers from Tohoku and Hokkaido universities and the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology released the results of their five-year study of the Chishima Trench off Hokkaido.