Kurshiro

Discover Kushiro

Though Hokkaido winters can mean lots of snow, on the Pacific Ocean side where Kushiro city is located there tends to be much less snow.  Kushiro city is around 300 kms west from Sapporo, between Shiretoko Peninsula and Tokachi.

This port city faces the North Pacific Ocean, an early port since the late 1890s for international trade to the UK and US. The sea in front of the city stays open for trade and commercial fishing makes for a busy harbour area. The views at sunset are stunning looking past the harbour walls into the Ocean.

This city is full of secret cozy restaurants delicious charcoal barbeque “Robata yaki”. And at Kushiro Washo Market you can create your own seafood dish “Kattedon” grab a bowl of rice and top it with pieces of fresh seafood from different stalls.

Kushiro Shitsugen is 20 kms northwest from Kushiro city is the largest marshland in Japan with a wetland area of 268.61 sq kms, protected under The Ramsar Convention on Wetlands of International Importance, a habitat for the endangered red-crowned crane and for many precious flora and fauna.