northern japan

Hokkaido: A Travel Guide to Japan’s Northern Frontier

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Hokkaido is the size of Austria with a quarter of the population, and most travellers from Honshu underestimate the distances and overestimate the public-transit network. The first time you check Google Maps for the drive from Sapporo to the Shiretoko Peninsula and see eight hours, the trip is suddenly not the long-weekend add-on you thought … Read more