This route is the easternmost part of Japan that Japanese people can currently visit. It features magnificent nature, including the Shiretoko World Heritage Site. The delicious food from the country's rich dairy and marine resources will soothe travelers.

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Shiretoko Nemuro North Pacific Scenic Byway

The Shiretoko-Nemuro North Pacific Scenic Byway is located at the easternmost tip of Japan's mainland and is home to many fascinating resources, including the World Heritage Site of Shiretoko, five Ramsar Convention wetlands, and natural scenery reminiscent of Europe and the United States. The area is also home to a thriving fishing and dairy industry, with fresh and delicious seafood from the lush ocean, and dairy products such as high-quality milk and cheese from dairy cows raised on vast pastures. In recent years, a whiskey distillery has begun operations, creating a new local culture.

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1 <Scenic Cafe> Akesato Ito Farm

Akego Ito Farm is located in the beautiful scenery of the vast Konsen Plain, reminiscent of Europe. The restaurant serves a menu of carefully selected ingredients, including steaks made from Japanese shorthorn beef raised in-house, and the adjacent general goods and cafe is popular for its stylish and cute products that bring out the agricultural lifestyle, as well as its rich soft serve ice cream made with the farm's own pasteurized milk.

Akigo Ito Farm Homepage

2 Bettoga Pass

Five dairy farmers from Atsuboko to Bettoga in Nemuro City developed the Nemuro Footpaths, believing that valuing and conveying the local scenery, climate, history, lifestyle, and nature will lead to understanding of the region. One of these, the Bettoga Path, is a path that retains a strong hint of primeval scenery, passing through natural forests and marshes, and leading to cliffs with a panoramic view of the Pacific Ocean. The beautiful scenery, which you would never imagine being in Japan, is worth seeing.

Bettoga Pass

3 Former Okukuusu Post Office

A post station is a facility that was established in modern Hokkaido in an area with poor transportation access, equipped with a station building and horses and horses, for the purpose of transporting goods and lodging. It is a transportation heritage site that played an essential role as a transportation hub for the development of areas with underdeveloped railways, and is a nationally designated historic site. Nearby, you can also see the railway heritage sites of the former JNR Shibetsu Line Okuyusu Station and the former Betsukai Village Railway.

Betsukai Town Homepage Public flyer

4 Kiritappu Marshland

Kiritappu Wetland, one of the Ramsar Convention registered wetlands, is filled with a variety of seasonal flowers, such as Corydalis ambiguus and Daylily, that bloom from May to August. There are four boardwalks that you can walk along. You can also experience trekking on skis in the winter. At the Kiritappu Wetland Center, you can get a panoramic view of the vast marshland, and it also provides information and information about the marshland.

Kiritappu Wetland Center Homepage

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5 Roadside Station Akkeshi Gourmet Park

When it comes to gourmet food along this route, Akkeshi oysters come first. At the roadside station Akkeshi Gourmet Park, you can enjoy a variety of oysters to suit your taste, including the restaurant Escal, which has a wide variety of menu items from Japanese to Western cuisine, the Sumiyaki Aburiya, where you can enjoy a self-serve barbecue, and Oyster Bar Pitoresque, where you can enjoy oysters with whiskey from Akkeshi.

Roadside Station Akkeshi Gourmet Park Homepage

6 "Local Travel" Support Campaign

"Jimotona Tabi" means "local x adult travel." This route and Hokkaido's Nemuro Regional Development Bureau propose a "drive tourism in the COVID-19 era" that allows people to enjoy a trip with their loved ones without leaving their hometown, refreshing them while preventing the spread of COVID-19, and rediscovering previously unseen local charms.

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Shiretoko Nemuro North Pacific Scenic Byway "Jimoto Natabi" page

summary

How was it? This route is to the easternmost part of Japan that Japanese people can currently visit. It is a route with many spectacular views that change with the season and weather, and the magnificent nature and delicious food will heal your mind and body. Hokkaido's long winter is about to begin, but be sure to enjoy a drive while taking proper precautions against infectious diseases.