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Furano Cheese Workshop

4.0

214 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Hokkaido Furano Nakago-ku

The factory is a short drive from Furano station. Thete are chesse and ice cream making classes, try it.
Goro's Stone House

4.0

160 Reviews

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Hokkaido Furanoshi Higashirokugou

Goro’s Stone House is the house built by Goro Kuroita, the main character in the TV drama series “Kita no Kuni Kara” (“From the North Country”). In the TV series, Goro builds a house by clearing some of the many stones from Mt. Furano (formerly an active volcano) that were littering the fields. This is the house that Goro and his family were shown living in initially; the fireplace and stone bath have been preserved in the same condition as when the series was first being filmed in the 1980s.

Goros stone house is far from the city. You need to drive more the 40 minutes to reach there. It is not convenience to take public transport. Ideal transport is self drive. The attraction is at...
Roadside Station Minami Furano

3.5

93 Reviews

Transportation

Hokkaido Sorachigunminamifuranochou Ikutora 687-1

This michi-no-eki roadside station is on National Route 38 in Minami Furano Town, Sorachi County, Hokkaido. There's a massive fish pool with live Sakhalin taimen and white spotted char from the nearby Sorachi River, and the Butter Potatoes made with local Minami Furano potatoes are a hit. Canoes are also quite popular with locals, so the building itself was designed to resemble one.

日本映画の名作鉄道員（ぽっぽや）のロケ地見学に南富良野の幾寅駅へ行ったあと、役場近くの道の駅の物産センターへ行きました。暑い日だったので、生クリーム仕立ての濃厚ソフトクリームが食べたくて、夕張メロンシロップのカップを食べました。美味しいのはまちかいないのですが、もっと濃厚なソフトクリームが食べられる他の道の駅がありました。
Hirottekita Ie (Houses from TV Drama “From the Northern Country”)

4.0

86 Reviews

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Hokkaido Furanoshi Rokugoushigaichi

Hirottekita Ie is the house that Goro Kuroita, the main character in the TV drama series “Kita no Kuni Kara” (“From the North Country”) built for Aunt Setsuko using waste materials that he had collected. The house represents a warning about the excessive amounts of waste that are generated by modern society.

This took some effort to go and see We had to catch two busses which took about an 1hr 20mins and the busses only run 3 times a day. We left at 1pm and got there at 2.20pm went to see the attraction...
Farm Tomita

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Farm Tomita is a tourist farm in Furano, Hokkaido, which is called “lavender heaven.” Beautiful lavender fills an entire field. The flowering period is from late June for the early blooms until early August for the late blooms. The best time to see Lavender East, the biggest lavender field in Japan, is from early until mid-July. There is also a shop on the site that handles pot pourri and perfume made from lavender as well as a cafe. Even in the off-season, you can enjoy a variety of flower fields.
Rokugo no Mori

4.0

84 Reviews

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Hokkaido Furanoshi Higashirokugou 1-1

As the shooting location of the TV drama “From the North”, this forest in littered with interesting places including the original log cabin of Goro Kuroita, Goro’s third house with its windmill generator, a forest photo gallery, and the Forest Forum. This location is closed in the winter months and opening hours vary depending on season, please check before visiting.

毎年訪れます。今年はクラウドファンディングで入場券をいただきましたが、それはそれ！ 3ヶ所のチケットを購入し、入場したのは「石の家」だけです。石の家では今年も貸し切り状態で、たっぷり1時間滞在させていただきました。何度も五郎さんと純たちが座った、家の前の古びた椅子に腰かけてボーっとするだけで十分です。観光地じゃなく我々にとっての聖地のため、どうか末永く維持していただけることを祈ってやみませ...
The Goto Sumio Museum

4.5

40 Reviews

Leisure / Hobbies

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The Goto Sumio Museum is dedicated to the work of Japanese painter Goto Sumio, who has been depicting the natural beauty of Hokkaido in his paintings for half a century. The Museum displays a comprehensive range of Mr. Goto’s work, from the first of his paintings to be selected for inclusion in the Japanese Art Institute Exhibition and other early works through to his landscapes and sketches showing the flowers associated with different seasons of the year. The Museum shop sells books containing collections of paintings, exhibition catalogs, etc. The Museum restaurant, “Furano Grill,” is also highly recommended; while they eat, diners can enjoy spectacular views of the peaks of Mt. Tokachi and the nearby hills. The Museum is around 5 minutes’ drive from JR Kamifurano Station.

We werent quite sure what to expect from the Gallery, but we ended up spending longer here than we had planned for, the art work is breath-taking / magnificent ! Well worth the entrance fee of 1,040...
Roller Coaster Road

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Hokkaido Sorachigunkamifuranochou West 11 Line

The Roller Coaster Road is the West 11 Agricultural Exemption Farm Road connected to National Route 237 in Furano southwest of Bibaushi Station on the Furano Line. The four kilometer long, straight road is characterized by its extreme ups and downs. Visitors can enjoy taking a relaxing drive along the road along with sweeping views of the mountain ranges of Tokachi and the rural landscape. In winter, snow tends to make the road impassable to cars, so it's recommended you visit in summer. The road has also famously been used to film television dramas.
JR Furano Station Information Center

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A tourist information center located next to JR Furano Station. Here you can find all sorts of tourist information about Furano. They offer volunteer tour guides, recommend local lodgings and activities, book tourist taxis, and deliver luggage to your lodging allowing you to sightsee unencumbered. (JNTO Registered Information Center-Hokkaido Prefectural Governmental Registration for Tourism 3-547)
Furano Landscape Gallery

4.0

3 Reviews

Leisure / Hobbies

Hokkaido Sorachi-gun Nakafurano Cho Nae Mubanchi

"This art museum has a collection centered around oil paintings of the Furano area in all four seasons. It was opened as a studio-gallery for the artist Shuichi Okuda, who has spent his 30-year career painting landscapes. ""It's hard to capture my motif through even a single pane of glass,"" he says, and true to his work he paints outside in the harsh northern landscape all year round, in -30 degree centigrade winters or 30+ degree summers. As a result, his paintings have a depth and reality that makes viewers feel as if they are truly in that space. It is housed in the remodeled former Nae Elementary School. The building itself has been modeled into a work of art on its own."

道道７５９号沿い。旧奈江小学校を利活用。３０年余りこの地を描き続ける奥田修一画伯の現在進行形の美術館とのこと。入館料４００円。館内撮影可能。少し離れて絵画を見た方が良い、とか係員が色々世話好きなのもご愛敬。風景画家の庭入園料４００円。風景画館とのセットで７００円。
Furano Winery

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Hokkaido Furanoshi Shimizuyama

Furano Winery is a red brick winery located on a hill. On the winery tour, you can see the wine bottled so far and its state of maturation, as well as production processes such as bottling. On the second floor of the winery, you can taste wine and grape juice while enjoying the mountains of the Tokachi range. The shop handles original goods and products made using wine juice not to mention Furano Wine. As Furano is famous for lavender, you can also enjoy early blooming lavender from late June to mid-July in the winery square.
Rokugo Viewing Platform

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Hokkaido Furano Higashi-rokugo 3

"This observation deck located on the grounds of Furano Jam Garden offers a sweeping view of the beautiful scenery of Furano. It was once used as a filming location for the television drama ""From the Northern Country."" Some of the scenery that can be viewed from the deck includes the ""Rainbow Road,"" a field of flowers of different colors planted in straight lines, the colorful ""Irodori no Hiroba"" flower fields, lavender fields, and more."
Tsuchi no Yakata Museum of Soils and Tractors of the World

Leisure / Hobbies

Hokkaido Sorachi-gun Kamifurano Machinishi 2-sen Kita 25

This cultural facility was established as a place to contemplate the natural environment and soil, the wonder of agriculture, and the importance of the relationship between people and the soil. They have displays of farm equipment used by the settlers who developed Hokkaido, soil monoliths collected from all over the world, and tractors from the early 20th century dawning age. The massive four-meter high soil monolith is the only one of its kind in the world. It offers a vision of the massive volcanic mudslide caused by the 1926 Tokachi eruption. This facility was designated a piece of Hokkaido Heritage in 2004, and in 2014 the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers named it a Mechanical Engineering Heritage site.
Kamifurano Tokachidake Tourist Association

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Hokkaido Sorachi-gun Kamifurano Cho Nakamachi 1-1-8 Central Plaza 1F

This tourist office is a three-minute walk from Kamifurano Station on the JR Furano line. It offers all kinds of information about the best parts of Kamifurano Town and local sightseeing spots. Kamifurano Town, at the base of the Tokachi mountain range, is famous for its lavender fields, among the largest in Japan and one of Hokkaido's main symbols. This area is beautiful year-round. In spring, the scenery is blessed with cherry blossoms against the snowcapped mountains in the Tokachi range, in summer lavender and other colorful flowers cover the ground, while in autumn this area sees Japan's earliest fall foliage season, and in winter the area is famed for the diamond dust phenomenon. They also offer information on places to eat, hot spirng, and more, to make sure you can experience the very best of what Kamifurano has to offer.
Lavender East

Travel / Tourism

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This is one of the largest lavender fields in Japan, and is managed by Farm Tomita. Farm Tomita is a true Hokkaido icon and has a variety of flower fields to see, including Irodori Field, which paints the hills in all the colors of the rainbow. The fields stretch out for four kilometers eastward from the farm center toward the Tokachi mountain range. This area was originally a paddy farm that changed to growing flowers for aroma essence. Most years, the lavender blooms from early through mid-July, and the combination of gentle flowers and stunning Tokachi mountain range is an incredible sight. The park grounds have observation decks, toilets, and a welcome house selling original goods and soft-serve ice cream.
Dococa Farm

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This ranch is in the Furano area, which is famous for lavender fields and as the setting for the TV series Kita no Kuni Kara (From the North Country). The farm has a shop selling its own berries and jams, offers guest lodging, and has a cafe. It's a great place to stay for a while and enjoy farm life in some gorgeous rural landscape.
Yahataoka Hall (Nakanosawa Elementary Branch School)

Travel / Tourism

Hokkaido Furano-shi

"This is the elementary school where scenes for the drama ""From the North Country"" were filmed, and where the characters Jun and Hotaru attended school. Presently, it is used as a citizen center but a sign with the name of the school in the drama ""Nakanosawa Elementary Branch School"" hangs on the wall."
C. C. C. Furano Field Furano Nature School

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Hokkaido Furano Shimogoryo

"A center for a nonprofit organization which engages in environmental education located a five-minute drive from JR Furano Station. Sponsored by playwright So Kuramoto, the organization's primarily purpose is to train the five senses and encourage thinking about the environment via outdoor activities in Furano. The organization's activities include a nature restoration project being conducted on a former golf course, and a nature education project which includes activities such as tree planting. The organization also operates a ""pitch black classroom"" designed to train the senses other than sight."
Asahigaoka Park

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Hokkaido Furano-shi Shimogoryo

This spot has been selected as one of Japan's top 100 scenic spots for cherry blossom viewing and in spring 3000 blossoming cherry trees can be enjoyed.
Noragama

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Hokkaido Furanoshi Shimogo-ku

About 1.5 kilometers from JR Furano Station (about five minutes by car) is Noragama where both adults and children can have a go at pottery using their hands and the wheel. What’s more, situated in the middle of an onion field, is the must-see Gallery Nora created inside a 60-year old house. Displays and sales of items by creators from Furano and elsewhere are occasionally held here and you can enjoy the marvel of old and new, Japanese and Western, all contained within this old Japanese house. For lunch, Cafe Nora, adjoined to the gallery, is recommended. Reservations are required for those wanting a go at pottery. Opening hours change depending on the season so please check in advance for cafe opening times.

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Hokkaido Areas

Not just a prefecture but an island of its own, Hokkaido is the most northerly prefecture and island of the Japanese archipelago. Arriving in Hokkaido, which is rural and bursting with breathtaking nature, means entering a world where vast national parks, towering mountains, and natural hot springs can be found at every turn. Come December, these natural splendors freeze over and morph into a winter wonderland.