Experience Why Not Experience Western Iburi Through All Five Senses Over 2 Days? Why Not Experience the Fruits of Volcanoes
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Model ■ Two days and one night Side Why not experience western Iburi ■ Traveling distance/approx.96km B Course IBURI ROUTE MAP 1 through all five senses over 2 days? ■ Target area/Muroran City・Date City・Noboribetsu City ①Muroran City 11:00-11:30 ③Muroran City 12:40-13:30 ⑤Muroran City 15:00-16:30 ⑦Muroran City Itanki Beach (singing sand) Muroran Public Aquarium Night cruise (one of the ten best Mysterious sand that It offers a popular night views of factories in Japan) Stay Day 1 overnight produces a “kyu-kkyu” LUNCH! penguin parade Take a cruise around sound when stepped on. and sea lion show, Muroran Port. and a “skilfish” Enjoy a night view of In Muroran STA Have Muroran curry ramen for (deep-sea fish) factories and lunch at “Aji-no-Daio” in Muroran. exhibition you can illuminated Hakucho 159 288 510*55 159 3 0 8 410*4 8 only see here! Bridge. This is a local specialty in Muroran! Try the R exquisite curly noodles with thick curry soup! T ! ②Muroran City 11:50-12:20 ⑥Muroran City 17:00 ⑧Muroran City Experience 159 221 746*54 Cape Globe / Tokkarisho Lookout Michi-no-Eki “Mitara Muroran” Muroran yakitori ④ 13:50-14:20 You can enjoy a glorious Muroran City Hakucho Bridge Memorial Museum This is charcoal-grilled view of approx. 100-meter- Sokuryozan Observatory It provides a view of pork that goes well high precipitous cliffs. (Stair with 100 steps) Hakucho Bridge. You with onions and can watch the sun Western mustard! It provides a 360-degree setting on the sea. What Cape Globe Tokkarisho Lookout panoramic view of Muroran. an incredible scene! Specialty IBURI 159 16 5 829*6 4 159 196 868*32 159 250 312*6 4 159 308 680*61 of Muroran! ①Date City 9:45-10:00 ③Noboribetsu City 12:30-13:30 ④Noboribetsu City 13:45- ⑤Noboribetsu City 15:15-15:45 Go shopping at Michi-no-Eki Park in Oyunuma Parking Lot. Day 2 “Date Rekishi-no-Mori”. Transfer on foot 6 0 3 318 0 0 5*74 TOYOURA Check out local specialities including fresh vegetables which you can find nowhere else! 159 78 0 135*36 DATE ABIRA MUKAWA STA ②Date City 10:00-11:30 LUNCH! TOYAKO ATSUMA TOMAKOMAI Reimeikan Indigo Studio SOBETSU R (experience indigo dyeing) / Have Noboribetsu enma yakisoba T ! Reimeikan Swordsmithing Studio SHIRAOI (see swordsmithing) for lunch in Noboribetsu / You can enjoy traditional experience hot spring town. River Oyunuma Natural Footbath Noboribetsu Jigokudani DATE NOBORIBETSU of indigo dyeing and watching a All restaurants offering spicy Noboribetsu This is a natural footbath flowing out from Oyunuma, This is the crater of an explosive volcano, sword smith at work at the premises enma yakisoba use flat noodles made with one of the sources of Noboribetsu Hot Spring. shrouded with steams and the smell of of Michi-no-Eki Date. MURORAN the finest Hokkaido wheat, special sauce, 603 287 830*13 sulfur. You can witness a dynamic scene in ℡.+81-142- 25 - 6161 and ingredients produced in Noboribetsu which hot water spouts out from gushing Transfer on foot Reimeikan Indigo Studio Reimeikan Swordsmithing Studio or the neighboring town. Each restaurant points or blowholes! 159 780 2 49*81 159 780 2 49*86 offers its own special variation. Oyunuma Parking Lot 15:00- 6 0 3 288 4 2 5*4 6 The western area of the Iburi Region, consisting of Muroran, Noboribetsu, Date, Toyoura, Sobetsu and Lake Toya, IBURI Western Area Model ■ Two days and one night has lots of perfect places to enjoy scenery, food, and leisure! And its hot springs are ideal spots for relaxation. Why not experience the ■ Traveling distance/approx.110km Course City introduction Here are our picks of the attractive places to visit across the four seasons! 2 fruits of volcanoes and nature? ■ Target area/Sobetsu Town・Toyako Town・Toyoura Town Muroran City Muroran boasts Noboribetsu City Noboribetsu is one of Date City Date is a region with a Stay ①Sobetsu Town 10:30-10:45 ③Sobetsu Town 11:00-12:30 ⑤Sobetsu Town 13:45-14:45 At Toyako Hot Spring / 17:00- Hakucho Bridge, the the main hot-spring warm climate and is also overnight Sobetsu Hot Spring accommodation largest suspension areas in Hokkaido. It known as “Northern Sobetsu Koen Observatory Mt. Usu Ropeway Go fruit-picking at Sobetsu bridge in eastern Japan. features various kinds Shonan”. You can Enjoy a far view of Funka For those staying overnight at Toyako Hot Spring Day 1 It provides a Kudamono-Mura. accommodation: You can enjoy a night of hot springs. You can experience indigo dyeing Bay, Mt. Yotei, Lake Toya This is a tourist farm consisting glorious view of Mt. Appreciate Toyako Long-Run view of factories, a new spend a relaxing time in and see swordsmithing Yotei, Mt. Showa and Nakajima Island, and a of 18 orchards in Sobetsu. Enjoy sightseeing spot, by a natural footbath in the at a facility next to Shinzan and Mt. high panoramic view of Mt. picking fruit such as fresh Fireworks Festival. cruise or bus tour. Try forest while walking on Michi-no-Eki, and learn STA Usu centered Showa Shinzan during a six cherries, grapes, apples and pears, This is a “long-run” fireworks festival Muroran yakitori with the trail to Jigokudani about Jyomon culture around Lake Toya. minutes’ one-way trip! depending on season. lasting approx. half a year, which ℡. ℡. sauce and an addictively and Oyunuma. and history at 321 527 15 0*4 8 321 433 350*55 +81-142-75-2401 321 529 0 4 0*16 +81-142-66-2750 321 518 337*56 decorates the night sky above Lake Toya. delicious curry ramen “Kita-Kogane-Kaizuka” R T ! 13:00-13:30 here. (historical site). ②Sobetsu Town 10:50-11:00 ④Sobetsu Town ⑥Toyako Town 15:30-16:50 Toyako Pleasure Cruise (*Disembark on Nakajima Island) Sobetsu Falls This is the only Showa Shinzan Kuma Bokujo Take a pleasure cruise bound for Nakajima Island that floats in the center of Lake Toya, and enjoy the magnificent nature. 321 519 5 4 8*86 naturally Approx. 100 brown Toyoura Town Toyoura is known for its Sobetsu Town Sobetsu is a town with Lake Toyako Town Lake Toya, the third outflowing falls in bears reside here! scallop cultivation. Fresh Toya and volcanoes such as largest crater lake in Lake Toya, which is Feed and meet a Go and enjoy the vestiges of volcanoes (a.k.a. Zero Point)! seafood is gathered at Mt. Usu and Mt. Showa Japan, is famous as a hot situated on the lovely bear from up A suddenly-appearing shallow on which you can even stand is the top of spot where River close! volcano! Early morning cruise is also highly recommended! its fishing port. The Shinzan, in which you can spring town. You can Lake Toya Central Motor Boat ℡.+81-142-75-2603 Sobetsu flows out Reservation ℡.+81-142-75-3467 popular “World Scallop enjoy a Geopark. You can enjoy various activities 321 526 142*25 from Lake Toya. 321 433 323*02 ℡.+81-142-75-2290 required. Toya Marine Sobetsu Onsen sales office Fishing Championships” feel the power of the earth such as canoeing, Toya Marine Toya Onsen sales office ℡.+81-142ー75ー2525 is held here every year from the footpath and the horse-riding and cycling *Available in Japanese only. and can be enjoyed by Mt. Showa Shinzan around here. In 2008, Feel the breeze of ① 10:00-12:00 everyone. “JR Koboro ropeway. Many varieties of leaders from major Toyako Town Lake Toya while ②Toyako Town 12:20 - 13:20 LUNCH! ④Toyoura Town Station” is a secluded fruit are produced here; countries came here to Catch a train at Toyoura Station. Go cycling along the shore of cycling! 14:30 - 16:10 station, which you can the Sobetsu apples are attend the Hokkaido Have lunch at 662 296 279*00 -14:52 Lake Toya with a rental bicycle. only reach by train. particularly famous. Toyako Summit. Toya Mizu-no-Eki. by JR train Day 2 Lake Toya Gurutto Chokoku Koen (Sculpture Park), Toyako Visitor Try Sanuki noodles Center (Volcano Science Museum), Hokkaido Toyako Summit Stay for a while at the Koboro Station. while enjoying a Memorial Museum. Take a tour of the Sculpture Park on the This is known as “the most glorious view of Lake IBURI Western Area Public road JR shore of Lake Toya, in which 58 sculptures are exhibited, and the secluded station in Japan” and can Access information STA Toya. 17 minutes by car Sobetsu Volcano Science Museum where you can experience the history 321 8 20 28 0*18 only be reached by train. of the eruption of Mt. Usu and the conditions at that time. And by JR train -15:44 don’t forget the Hokkaido Toyako Summit Memorial R ③Toyako Town 13:30 - 14:00 84 minutes by car 86 minutes by car 36 minutes by car 48 minutes by car 26 minutes by car 15 minutes by car 321 518 4 38*18 Museum, visited by leaders from all over the world! Get off a train at Toyoura Station 16:02 T Sapporo Nobori Muroran Date Toyako Toyoura ! New Chitose betsu Reservation Shikotsu-Toya National Park Silo Observatory 37 minutes by JR train 89 minutes by JR train 35 minutes by JR train 52 minutes by JR train 16 minutes by JR train 6 minutes by JR train or required. ⑤Toyoura Town 16:15 - 16:30 Airport Take a stroll in Toyoura Fishing Port.