Shiretoko National Park Tour

Shiretoko National Park

This is 2 day course from Tokyo. The fee is in USD from Sapporo (Please contact us for the fee).

By air, guests go to Sapporo, then to JR Shiretoko Shari by train, and to Shiretoko National Park by bus. After arriving they stay at a hotel in Sapporo. The next morning they start for Shiretoko.

Shiretoko National Park ( Shiretoko Kokuritsu Kōen), located on the Shiretoko Peninsula in eastern Hokkaido, is one of Japan's most beautiful and unspoiled national parks. No roads lead further than about three-fourths up the peninsula, and the northern tip can only be viewed from boats or be reached on multi-day trekking tours. The peninsula is home to a variety of wildlife, including brown bears, deer, and foxes.

In winter, the peninsula's coast along the Sea of Okhotsk becomes one of the northern hemisphere's southernmost regions to see drift ice. In 2005, Shiretoko was added to the list of world heritage sites for the irreplaceable value of the peninsula's ecosystem and biodiversity.

The forests of the park are temperate and subalpine mixed forests; the main tree species include Sakhalin fir (Abies Sachalinensis), Erman's birch (Betula Ermanii), and Mongolian oak (Quercus mongolica). Beyond the forest limit, there are impenetrable Siberian Dwarf Pine (Pinus Pumila) thickets.