Walk Japan Launches New Tour Through Japan’s Last Wilderness - The Newest Guided Tour Showcases the Beauty of Eastern Hokkaido

Walk Japan, the pioneer of off-the-beaten-track walking tours across Japan, is delighted to announce their newest tour, the East Hokkaido Trek. The latest addition to our walking explorations throughout Japan, the trek is ideal for more experienced walkers as it follows sections of the Hokkaido East Trail. The recently established 255-mile hiking route weaves its way through spectacular scenery via three national parks in what is considered Japan’s last real wilderness.

Daily walks between 6.8 to 11.2 miles follow a trail connecting three national parks, where guests will walk aside wetlands, skirt around crater lakes, hike through lowland forests and farmsteads, and scale low mountain passes to the Sea of Okhotsk.

Over the course of 9 days and 8 nights, the guided tour visits the starkly contrasting environments scattered across the sparsely populated and little-visited region of Hokkaido. Highlights include:

• Kushiro Shitsugen, a Ramsar-registered wetlands

• Atosa-Nupuri (Io-zan), a spectacularly active volcano that continuously spumes water vapor 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 actually volcanic peaks under the lake’s surface

• The Shiretoko Peninsula, a UNESCO World Heritage Site and one of Japan’s last true wildernesses

  
  

Starting in Kushiro and ending in Memanbetsu, the fully guided tour offers departures in June, July, September, and October. Included in the $5200 based on double occupancy are accommodations at traditional ryokan and modern inns with access to plentiful onsen, as well as daily meals made from Hokkaido’s freshest ingredients.

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.

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