Walk Japan's newest tour through Eastern Hokkaido for experienced walkers
The East Hokkaido Trek, Walk Japan’s latest tour, is a 9-day, 8-night guided hike through the little-visited but spectacular natural countryside in Hokkaido’s sparsely populated eastern region.
Walk Japan is delighted to announce the East Hokkaido Trek, the latest addition to their walking explorations throughout Japan. Suitable for more experienced walkers, it follows sections of the Hokkaido East Trail, a recently established 410km (255 mile) hiking route that weaves its way through spectacular scenery via three national parks from Kushiro’s wetlands via active volcanoes and crater lakes to the Shiretoko Peninsula, Japan’s last real wilderness.
Another of Walk Japan’s tours, the East Hokkaido Walk, visits the same region but follows easier trails for a more leisurely experience of Japan’s most northerly island.
Key features include:
Daily walks between 11 to 18 km (6.8 to 11.2 miles) on a trail connecting three national parks aside wetlands, skirting crater lakes, through lowland forests and farmsteads, over low mountain passes to the Sea of Okhotsk;
Kushiro Shitsugen, a Ramsar-registered wetlands;
Atosa-Nupuri (Io-zan), a spectacularly active volcano that continuously spumes water vapour and sulphur;
Kawayu Onsen, a remote township renowned for its reviving and beautifying geothermal bathing;
Kussharo-ko and Masshu-ko, two of Japan’s largest crater lakes, which both contain islands that are, in fact, volcanic peaks;
The Shiretoko Peninsula, a UNESCO World Heritage Site and one of Japan’s last true wildernesses;
Hokkaido cuisine, some of the freshest and best quality in Japan, and comfortable and relaxing accommodation with onsen bathing.
Details
9 days, 8 nights.
Fully guided.
Maximum group size of 12.
Starting in Kushiro, finishing in Memanbetsu.
Departures in June, July, September and October.
Prices from JPY 798,000 / approx. £3,830 per person based on double occupancy.
About Walk Japan
Established in 1992, Walk Japan is an independently owned and managed travel company that enlightens and enriches participants on walking tours through many lesser-travelled regions of Japan from Hokkaido in the nation’s far north to Okinawa in its far south. Walk Japan’s pioneering tours evolved from study trips run by two Hong Kong University academics and since then, Walk Japan has created over fifty original tours guiding many tens of thousands of people from around the world through Japan’s natural beauty, history, society and culture that is otherwise often difficult to access and fully appreciate.