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CONTENTS 01
EASTERNCOUNTRY SIDEHOKKAIDO
Wonderland Activities in “Countryside”
What makes your journey more valuable is to expose yourself to the atmosphere and lifestyle of that place. Eastern Hokkaido is a leading area of Japan's upland cropping and dairy farming, so you will find not only the nature but also croplands and ranches everywhere you go. With a background of the industry and its climate, a unique lifestyle was established here. Let’s try farming and cooking to experience the daily life and the traditional cuisines which have been passed on since ancient times.
CONTENTS 02
EASTERNDAIRY EXPERIENCEHOKKAIDO
Dairy Farming
Hokkaido accounts for 50% Japan's domestic raw milk production, and the most of the production relies on eastern Hokkaido. Here we offer different kinds of tours to experience the dairy farming such as milking and making butter from fresh milk. It's nothing like other ordinary interactive tours to a ranch prepared for visitors. This tour was first started by ranch owners with the purpose to show how milk is produced in a real and current way of dairy farming through feeding, milking, and cleaning.
| Area | Genre | Company / organization name | Main services | Service area | Foreign language support | WEB |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aakan・Mashu | Countryside | Watanabe Experience Farm | Dairy experience Cooking experience |
Akan Mashu |
WEB | |
| Nemuro・Nakashibetsu | Countryside | ushiyado | Dairy experience Cooking experience |
Nakashibetsu | WEB | |
| Tokachi | Countryside | Country Farmers Fujita Farm | Dairy experience Cooking experience |
Shikaoi | WEB |
CONTENTS 03
EASTERNFARM EXPERIENCEHOKKAIDO
写真提供：いただきますカンパニー
Upland Cropping
Utilizing the vast land, large-scale farming is one of the major industries in eastern Hokkaido; especially Tokachi area is called "Treasure Trove of Food." It's usually not allowed for visitors to enter farms, but here they provide guided tours in a farm. In the tours, you can learn about farming and food culture in eastern Hokkaido through walking around and eating vegetables freshly produced in the farm. There're also interactive tours that you can actually harvest seasonal vegetables such as potatoes and corns, or that you can enjoy fruit-picking.
| Area | Genre | Company / organization name | Main services | Service area | Foreign language support | WEB |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Okhotsk・Sounkyo | Countryside | オホーツク農山漁村活用体験型ツーリズム推進協議会 | Cooking experience Farm experience |
Abashiri | English Chinese |
WEB |
| Tokachi | Countryside | Itadakimasu Company | Farm experience | Tokachi | WEB |
CONTENTS 04
EASTERNCUISINEHOKKAIDO
写真提供：カントリーファーマーズ藤田牧場
Cooking
Cuisine in eastern Hokkaido has some unique features which have been brought by a fusion of its locally produced ingredients and lifestyle in northern country. For those who would like to try the local cuisine, various cooking tours have been arranged: soba noodles using buckwheat flour, tofu made from soybeans and bittern, pickles, soup, rice dish, and more. One of the most popular programs is making butter and ice cream using its locally produced fresh milk.
| Area | Genre | Company / organization name | Main services | Service area | Foreign language support | WEB |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aakan・Mashu | Countryside | Watanabe Experience Farm | Dairy experience Cooking experience |
Akan Mashu |
WEB | |
| Okhotsk・Sounkyo | Countryside | オホーツク農山漁村活用体験型ツーリズム推進協議会 | Cooking experience Farm experience |
Abashiri | English Chinese |
WEB |
| Nemuro・Nakashibetsu | Countryside | ushiyado | Dairy experience Cooking experience |
Nakashibetsu | WEB | |
| Tokachi | Countryside | Country Farmers Fujita Farm | Dairy experience Cooking experience |
Shikaoi | WEB |
