Sapporo

Sapporo is the center of Hokkaido and has a lot of sightseeing spots. Odori park, Hokkaido university, jozankei are one of the most famous place and there have several events. Infebruary, Sapporo snow festival is take place in Odori, it is very beautiful and exciting so you should go there. Around Hokkaido university, soup curry, that is one of the speciral products, shops are there, comparing these shops is interesting and each shops have own characteristics. Sapporo beer is also one of the special products and it is a good alcoholic drink. Sapporo beer garden, that makes beer, sell Mongolian mutton barbecue. We can eat it and drink beer as much as you can in there. Jozankei is at the end of Sapporo and there is a hot spring resort. Going there takes over an hour, but there is worth visiting to relax. Sapporo has more other good places, so it is interesting to search good place.

Asahikawa

Asahikawa is one of the best places in Hokkaido. Most famous place in Asahikawa is Asahiyamadoubutsuen that is the wonderful zoo. Asahiyamadoubutsuen is a usual zoo before, but this zoo reformed and becomes the best zoo in Japan now. This is because this zoo made a customer closer than most of zoo. Studying how animals behave in nature and making the zoo where animals can behave natural. A customer looks the animals that are raised in the past, but Asahiyamadoubutsuen was built like animal looks people. This style causes the Asahiyamadoubutsuen famous and charming people. Asahikawa ramen is also famous in Japan; this is a ramen soy sauce base soup. In Asahikawa, There has a theme park Asahikawaramenmura that has many of soy sauce base ramen stores, and customer can enjoy eating various taste of Asahikawaramen. Asahikawa has other good things and places, so I want you to look for a good place.

Kuromatunai

One of the beautiful places in Hokkaido is Kuromatunai. The natural environment has been preserved in this area and a grave of beech trees are very famous. Mineral water is a special product and you can buy it at all of supermarkets. Bacon and dairy products are also special products and these can be bought at roadside station, called toitvert. Toitvert is one of best roadside stations and I always stop at here when I come back my hometown. The quality of bacon and dairy products are very good and these are a little expensive. The bread that made in toitvert is very famous in Hokkaido and you can’t buy it if you don’t wait to finish baking it. When you go to Kuromatunai, you should buy these special products.

Muroran

Muroran has several beautiful places and some delicious foods. Muroran is on the coast, so it has a lot of beaches, bridges and observation decks. One of beautiful places is Hakutyoohashi. This is very long bridge and we can walk in summer. I walked when I was elementary school student. Another beautiful place is the observation deck of Tikyumisaki. We can see Komagatake here. We can see beautiful setting sun on the beaches and beautiful night view of illuminated bridges. Muroran yakitori is very famous food in Hokkaido. It is pork yakitori and we eat it with mustard. Ramen with curry is also famous food in Muroran. It was developed because of trying to become famous in Hokkaido. Muroran has a lot of other good things, so how do you go there?

Toya

Toya is one of famous place in Hokkaido. There have some beautiful places, such as Lake Toya, Shouwashinzan and so on. Lake Toya is one of the Crater Lake and the center of place exist an island. It looks miraculous. We can go to the island by boat, so there has many tourists. Near Lake Toya, there are Shouwashinzan and Mt.Usu. Syouwashinzan is a natural monument and I went to there on a school excursion. Mt.Usu is an active volcano. In March 2000, this mountain erupted and about 15,000 people took refuge from volcano products, such as bomb, ash, magma and so on. These mountains are forceful, so you should watch these mountains. Lake Toya spa is famous spa in Hokkaido. This spa makes us very relaxed. Toya has many of good places, so I recommend you to go.

Otaru

In this summer holiday, I obtained my driving license. When I obtained my license, I took a trip by car. My first trip by car is to go to Otaru.

Otaru is one of famous places in Hokkaido and glassware, a canal, sweets and sushi are special products of Otaru. Kitaichi, which is in Otaru, is well-known glassware shop in Hokkaido. Kiamichi’s glassware are very beautiful, so this glassware will be the best present when people go to Otaru.

Otaru canal is famous place in Hokkaido. Thanks to brick houses, Otaru canal becomes famous and rare place. When you stroll through Otaru, you can see a lot of sushi bar. Otaru’s sushi is delicious and freshness. Rutao is sweets shop and is also famous place in Hokkaido. For these things, Otaru becomes wonderful place and I enjoyed going to Otaru.

Tomakomai

When I was elementary school　student, I lived in Tomakomai. There is good and important place for me. Tomakomai is in the southern part of Hokkaido and its special products are surf clam and blue berried honeysuckle.

Mitsuboshi which is in Tomakomai is famous sweetshop and Mitsuboshis typical cakes are fromage and Yoitomake. Yoitomake is made of egg and blue berried honeysuckle. It would makes you happy.

In winter, it becomes comparatively cold, but is doesn’t much snow. Because of this natural phenomenon, something are frozen, so people play skating, not skiing. If you go to Tomakomai, you should go in winter and try to eat surf clam and Yoitomake.