Spots in Furano Area

  • 12th Floor Restaurant, Sky View
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Hokkaido Furano Nakagoryo Shinfurano Prince Hotel 12F
    This restaurant with a view is located on the 12th floor, the top floor, of the New Furano Prince Hotel, is located about ten minutes by car from JR Furano Station. It is open only from lunch and from the restaurant you can dine while enjoying a view overlooking the magnificent Tokachi mountain range. The extensive menu offers a selection of Western, Chinese and Japanese cuisine. A children's menu is also available and the restaurant is recommended for families with small children. The restaurant also welcomes day visitors, not only guests of the hotel.
  • Confectionery SHINYA
    Shopping
    Hokkaido Furano Asahimachi 4-7
    "This is a Japanese confectionery store that has been loved by the locals for many years located a five-minute walk from JR Furano Station. It sells the famous ""Hesono Omanju (belly button bun)"", well known as a Furano sweet. The soft, moist dough of the bun is filled with Biei grown red beans. The ""Furano Yuki Doke Cheese Cake"" is recommended and is made with local Furano produce and featured in the media. The four-layered cheesecake with sweet and sour jam has a refreshing taste, which will leave you wanting more."
  • Doll Studio and Gallery 'St Merry'
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Hokkaido Furano Kitanominecho 24-12
    This gallery of the doll maker, Shizuho Uji, is five-minutes by bus from JR Furano Station, and a three-minute walk from the Kisen Bus Stop. Cute, handmade dolls are displayed at the gallery and are also on sale. The dolls each have their own unique expression and the dolls' accessories and clothing is colored using natural dyes made from dandelion or lavender. At the studio you can see dolls that look like real fairies. Photo books and postcards, as well as dolls, are available for purchase.
  • Glass Forest in Furano
    Style / Fashion
    Hokkaido Furano Rokugo Shigaichi 3
    "This glass exhibition and sales facility is in Furano City, Hokkaido. Apart from displaying and selling glass art, visitors can try their hand at making glass works. The ""Shibare glass"", created on the image of diamond dust, can only be purchased here. The shop also sells cookware such as tableware, soy sauce jugs, as well as a wide variety of items such as small interior goods in the shape of animals and vegetables, and accessories. Visitors can also experience making their own one of a kind item such as glass beads, sun catchers, and also enjoy glass blowing."
  • NRA North River Adventures
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Hokkaido Sorachigunminamifuranochou Ochiai 155
    An outdoor tour company that gives top priority to safety and conducts tours tailored to the physical abilities of its guests. Programs for kids from as young as three years old are available and activities such as camping, canyoneering, rafting, and mountain stream fishing can all be enjoyed along with the crew. Please note that tours differ between the summer and winter.
  • Confectionery Store Furano Delice
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    4.5
    251 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Hokkaido Furanoshi Shimogoryou 2156-1
    A wonderfully pretty cake shop in Furano City, Hokkaido, surrounded by trees and flowers. Furano Delice sells a variety of sweets using locally sourced ingredients from Hokkaido and Furano. There’s a large selection of cakes on display ideal to eat at home or take away as a gift, such as the full-flavored Furano Milk pudding and their signature cake Double Fromage, with two types of cheese. There are places where you can sit down and eat in the shop and also an area to arrange shipment of your newly purchased goods!

    The place offers a great view of the surrounding area. If the weather permits, get a table outside on the veranda facing the mountains. The Double Fromage is the best cheesecake Ive eaten so far and...

  • Tomita Melon House
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    4.0
    241 Reviews
    Shopping
    Hokkaido Sorachigunnakafuranochou Miyamachi 3-32
    Tomita Melon House is a specialty shop located deep in the countryside in Nakafurano Town, Sorachi County, Hokkaido. They have a melon sweets shop where you can taste a variety of sweets which use both dark and light Furano melons and in addition to melons, they have a shop where you can buy and send vegetables from Furano. In the sweets shop freshly sliced melon, soft ice cream, and Furano melon buns which are also well known at product fairs around the country, are all very popular. You can enjoy the wonderful Furano scenery to your heart’s content from the spacious wood deck.

    Nice sweet melon, you get a good range of ice-cream, cakes and sweets made from these Melon...however, kind of pricey..

  • Mori no Tokei “Forest Clock” Cafe
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    4.0
    149 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Hokkaido Furanoshi Nakagoryou New Furano Prince Hotel On-site
    Mori no Tokei “Forest Clock” Cafe is located in the grounds of the New Furano Prince Hotel in Furano City, Hokkaido. The cafe was actually created for a famous television drama called Yasashi Jikan in which the leading character opened the place as a shop making it the main stage for the story. Open the door of the cafe that stands quietly in the middle of the forest and the sweet aroma of coffee will come wafting through. Enjoy the great tasting coffee and the cakes reminiscent of snow while looking out at the changing seasons through the large windows.

    Not the first time I visited this restaurant. Its almost a packaged deal for people who go to Ningle Terrace. The menu is small. A cake, a curry rice, a coffee... thats about it. This place...

  • Noragama
    Travel / Tourism
    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.
  • Café Goryo
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Hokkaido Furanoshi Kamigoryou
    In Kamigoryo, Furano City, Hokkaido, sits a small cafe which has been refurbished from an old barn by the husband and wife owners. The red roof of the cafe standing in a field in Furano is easy to spot. The husband and wife team prepare dishes from food which they fell in love with during their travels around the world, and offer guests the chance to eat food like healthy rice using homemade vegetables, home roasted coffee, and sweets, etc. There’s also an old house, built 80 years ago, which has been lovingly renovated into a guest house where you can stay overnight (meals not included).
  • Restaurant Nord
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    3.5
    11 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Hokkaido Furanoshi Shimogoryou 2002
    Restaurant Nord, located in Shimogoryo, Furano City, Hokkaido, is complemented by a wine shop. The wine made on site features a variety of grapes collected from all over the world and is only produced in small quantities. It is available to drink in the restaurant. Popular items on the menu are the classic Cheese Fondue and Furano Omucurry (rice omelet with curry sauce). The shop complete with wine barrel and white interior has an open, airy feel and high-class finish. The homely, cozy restaurant is also a popular venue for weddings.

    This is very famous restaurant inside a hotel. The building is old but inside is remodeled and nice. Outside view is great. They are famous for omu curry, omelette stuffed with rice covered with...

  • Hitsuji-no-Oka
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Beverney, Nakafurino-cho, Hokkaido Sorachi-gun
    Hitsuji-no-oka, literally meaning ‘sheep hill’, is a restaurant in Furano where you can enjoy the rare Suffolk sheep. The food at the restaurant is not like any other restaurant, and it was included in the 2012 Michelin Guide. They have a farm also where you can get up close with the animals and feed the rabbits and sheep. It’s a popular place to go especially with children.
  • Furano Wine House
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    4.0
    77 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Hokkaido Furanoshi Shimizuyama
    From the large windows of this restaurant located on top of a hill in Furano City, Hokkaido, you can enjoy splendid views of the city, lavender fields, and mountains of Tokachi. Here, at Furano Wine House, you can enjoy food made with local Furano produce such as milk, cheese and vegetables, while enjoying a bottle of wine straight from the source. There’s a wide ranging menu to enjoy for both couples and families, such as Furano Wagyu cooked slowly in red wine, Tokachi beef steak, and cheese fondue, etc. The restaurant has a private room which can be used for dinner functions and seminars.

    The best thing about this place was the view. It is really spectacular and you can forgive the other shortcomings just because of that. Unlike the other reviewers, I felt that the service was very...

  • Furano Dorama Gallery
    Travel / Tourism
    Hokkaido Furanoshi Nakagoryou New Furano Prince Hotel On-site
    This shop sells original merchandise from the three TV dramas by Sou Kuramoto; Kita no kuni kara (From the North Land), Yasashii jikan (Affectionate Time), and Kaze no garden (Garden of Wind). Inside the shop is an old wood burning stove, and inside the New Furano Prince Hotel (where the shop is located) you can find other things related to the TV series.
  • Furano Marche / Furano Marche 2
    Shopping
    Hokkaido Furanoshi Saiwaichou 8-5
    Two shopping centers, Furano Marche and Furano Marche 2, located next to each other in a shopping mall located in Saiwai Town, Furano City, Hokkaido. In Furano Marche you can find many shops around the plaza area, such as farmer’s stores selling local produce, souvenir shops that sell special products such as wine and dairy products, and bakeries selling fresh bread and cakes, etc. In Furano Marche 2, there are 11 stores including an authentic coffee shop, a flower shop and restaurants, as well as an event space where events are held every season.
  • FB FURANO BURGER
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    4.0
    30 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Hokkaido Furanoshi Higashitorinuma 1
    This hamburger restaurant is built in front of Torinuma Park, where a spring wells up within the beautiful natural surroundings. FB Furano Burger is directly managed by Furano Ranch, situated at the same address, and places emphasis on making delicious food without preservatives. Their extra-large 13 centimeter high burger is especially recommended. You can savor the real taste of the meat which doesn’t contain any seasoning or spices. The locally grown vegetables which are grown in Furano, where the temperature differences throughout the seasons can be extreme, produce a remarkably rich and fresh tasting flavor.

    Beef patty was juicy and nice. Coupled with their fries which was special. Great stopover food if u are hungry

  • Nakafurano Lavender Garden
    Travel / Tourism
    Hokkaido Sorachigunnakafuranochou Miyamachi 1-14
    A symbol of Nakafurano Town, this lavender garden covers Mt. Hokusei which becomes a ski resort during the winter. If you go to the top on the lift you can see four different kinds of lavender, as well as some colorful marigolds, and salvia splendens covering the mountainside. You can really appreciate the true beauty of nature from here. The lavender park is open from late June through to mid-August.
  • Café Restaurant Kokage
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Hokkaido Sorachi-gun Nakafurano Town Fukuhara Farm
    Kokage is a café-restaurant and gallery situated on a hilltop in Nakafurano, Sorachi district, Hokkaido. Kokage has a marvelous location with extensive views of the Furano Basin and soaring mountain peaks; visitors can enjoy different scenery depending on the season and the time of day. The interior design uses white as the basic color tone, creating a pleasant “natural” atmosphere. Kokage’s pizza—which is made using locally-produced cheese, toppings and other materials—is very popular, and gives diners the opportunity to enjoy a real “Furano” dining experience. Kokage also has its own gallery space, which displays and sells works by Hokkaido artists (changed on a monthly basis).
  • Kanno Farm (Garden)
    Travel / Tourism
    Hokkaido Sorachigunkamifuranochou Nishi12senkita 36 Mima-zakuma Pass
    At Kanno Farm, visitors can enjoy viewing a wide variety of different flowers and crops, including lavender (which comes into bloom around mid-July). The “Kinkonkanno” farm shop, which was renovated in 2010, sells a range of original lavender-themed goods, as well as vegetables and soft-serve ice cream delivered from a nearby pastoral farm. Kanno Farm is approximately 30 minutes’ drive from Asahikawa Airport, and 10 minutes’ walk from JR Bibaushi Station.
  • Bistro Le Chemin
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Hokkaido Furanoshi Shimogoryou
    Bistro Le Chemin is a French restaurant in Furano City, occupying a white-walled building nestled amidst peaceful fields. Diners can enjoy cuisine that makes extensive use of Hokkaido ingredients, including locally-grown vegetables, sautéed Hokkaido pork, home-made raw ham, etc. The lunch menu includes the very reasonably-priced “Bistro Lunch” (featuring several dishes served on the same plate) and “Pasta Lunch”. The interior of the restaurant is a relaxing environment with bright sunshine, and redolent of the soft warmth of wood, creating a real “home away from home” experience for diners.

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