Northern Circuit

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

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

Towns and villages

• 6 Biei (美瑛町 Biei-chō)
• 7 Kamikawa (上川町 Kamikawa-chō)
  • 1 Sounkyo Onsen (層雲峡 Sōunkyō)

• 8 Shimukappu (占冠村 Shimukappu-mura)
• 9 Horonobe (幌延町 Horonobe-chō)

Other destinations

View from Mount Rishiri

• Rishiri-Rebun-Sarobetsu National Park
  • 2 Rishiri Island (利尻島 Rishiri-tō)
  • 3 Rebun Island (礼文島 Rebun-tō)
• 4 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.