[2024 Abashiri Stay] Travel Guide for Hokuten no Oka Abashiriko Tsuruga Resort (Updated Dec)
【Dinner】COTA Okhotsk Buffet
The open kitchen, brimming with a sense of openness, offers a menu featuring ingredients from Hokkaido's Okhotsk region. There's freshly fried tempura, sashimi including salmon, Moyoro pot where you can choose your ingredients, and pizza baked in a stone oven. There are so many options it can be hard to choose, but dinner is enjoyable. Desserts are plentiful, and you'll leave feeling full. If you're staying over, I recommend the hotel buffet for dinner.
【Lodging】Kitaten no Oka Abashiri Lake Tsuruga Resort
【Location】159 Yobito, Abashiri, Hokkaido
【Access】About 15 minutes by car from Memanbetsu Airport
【Reference Budget】From 18,000 yen (for 2 people, 1 room with 2 meals) Check-in 15:00 Check-out 10:00
Visit Date: Mid-February 2024
ぷりんちゃん
Salmon from Morning! Unlimited Ikura and Sweet Shrimp at the Inn.
You can enjoy a menu that you would expect in Hokkaido from the morning. The sashimi (salmon with ikura) can be put on rice to make a seafood bowl, and you can choose your favorite ingredients for freshly made omelets and miso soup. The bread was also delicious. On the way to the breakfast venue, I even encountered a wild Ezo squirrel. It was a very satisfying hotel morning.
[Inn] Kitaten no Oka Abashiri Lake Tsuruga Resort
[Location] 159 Yobito, Abashiri City, Hokkaido
[Access] About 15 minutes by car from Memanbetsu Airport
[Reference Budget] From 18,000 yen (for 2 people, including 2 meals) Check-in 15:00 Check-out 10:00
Visit Date: Mid-February 2024
ぷりんちゃん
Embark on the most primitive journey in Hokkaido to explore unknown territories
❄️When it comes to Hokkaido, people always think of powder snow, hot springs, and colorful lights.🌲However, in the World Heritage Shiretoko Peninsula, Akan Mashu National Park and Kushiro Wetland in the east of Hokkaido, the tranquility and primitiveness covered by the original forest are the real charm of Hokkaido.
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【Travel Highlights】
⛵Ice floe spectacle｜Sailing on the boundless ice field
🚶🏻Shiretoko Trekking｜Walking around the Shiretoko Five Lakes, encountering animals that appear from time to time
🙋Encounter with Red-crowned Cranes｜Hundreds of Japan's special natural monuments come here to overwinter
♨Winter hot springs｜Healing time surrounded by lake views and mountains
🦀Luxury seafood｜The fresh and sweet taste of Kushiro's catch is mouth-watering
🦌Natural paradise | Various rare wild animals and plants live freely
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【Encounters on the way】
✅Abashiri and Shiretoko｜Okhotsk icebreaker, Abashiri Prison Museum, Shiretoko Five Lakes Trekking, Ice Walking
✅Akan and Mashu｜Lake Kussharo Sunayu, Lake Mashu, Winter Ranch, Lake Akan, Ainu Village, Lake Akan Ice Carnival
✅Kushiro｜Wetland Observatory, Wetland Canoe, SL Winter Wetland Number, Bihoro Bridge Sunset, Kushiro River Lotus Ice, Wa Shang Morning Market, Crane Village
✅Obihiro｜Otsu Gem Ice, Yatai Village, Tokachi River Hot Springs
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【Accommodation】
🏡Lake Abashiri Tsuruga｜Taste seasonal seafood and feel the Ainu indigenous style and Okhotsk legend while bathing in natural hot springs
🏡Tsuruga Bisei｜Only 25 high-end open-air guest rooms, allowing tourists to feel at home on the shore of Lake Akan and find their spiritual homeland
🏡Seijaku House｜The single-story building seems to grow out, with guest rooms distributed on the periphery, and the restaurant and large bathhouse surround the central courtyard with changing scenery in all seasons
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【Delicacies】
🍜Kushiro Ramen｜Use bonito, kelp, etc. to make soy sauce soup base, the noodles are curled and extremely thin, which is very different from general ramen
🔥Robatayaki｜Mainly fresh fish and shellfish seafood, paired with various vegetables and grilled with charcoal, feel the full fresh taste and slight saltiness of seawater
🍱Victory Bowl｜Buy rice in advance and then go to the seafood market to choose salmon, sweet shrimp and even crab and other ingredients, paired with soy sauce and mustard to make a unique capricious seafood rice
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【Itinerary Overview】
❄D1 Okhotsk Sea
🚢Okhotsk Sea Icebreaker
❄D2 The Last Secret
🚶🏻Shiretoko Five Lakes Trekking, Ice Walking
❄D3 Swan Lake in the North Country
💁Watch swans in Lake Kussharo Sunayu, experience the winter ranch, climb the Lake Mashu observation deck, and celebrate the ice carnival in the Ainu village
❄D4 Wetland Water Journey
🛶Canoeing in Kushiro Wetland, climbing the observation deck, taking the SL Winter Wetland Number to Kushiro City to watch the sunset of Bihoro Bridge
❄D5 Hometown of Red-crowned Cranes
♨Choose your own victory bowl at the Wa Shang Market, look for the traces of red-crowned cranes, pick up gem ice on the Otsu coast, have dinner in Obihiro Yatai Village, and take a bath in Tokachi Hot Spring Village
❄D6 Farewell to Hokkaido
✈️Return/Continue to travel to other cities in Japan