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Shiretoko National Park on the peninsula at the east-end of Hokkaido, features one of the least touched nature of Hokkaido and at the same time the most versatile one: it offers access to the sea, with the road just running along the sea coast, and when crossing the peninsula you will soon be lead to the nature of deep forests, such as the five lake region. Beautiful!
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Oshinkoshin waterfalls’s dynamic look is worth seeing. Directly next to the seaside, the falling water directly flows into the sea.
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Utoro is a small fishing village at the west side of the peninsula. We stayed here the first night, enjoying a nice dinner in the village. The restaurant was run by local fishermen and apart from some funny and interesting talk, we got plenty of fresh and tasty sashimi, in fact more than we had ordered. Really nice people!
Additionally, a rocky
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hill at the harbour, home for a large number of sea gulls, offers a view of the coast line.
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We also headed into the mountain forest for some hiking in the five lake area. Unfortunately, when we were there only two lakes were open to the public. The other more remote and nice lakes were closed because bears had been roaming・
When crossing the mountain chain in the middle of the peninsula, at some places we saw
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plenty of snow still on the ground ・reminder of such a short summer in the area.
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Notsuke peninsula, about 50 km south of Shiretoko peninsula, is known for a very rare phenomenon, the todowara. A former little
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