Tokachi十勝

🥩Obihiro帯広市

The capital of Tokachi farm country. Butadon (pork rice bowl) was invented here, and the surrounding plains produce much of what Japan eats.

🛁Otofuke音更町

Otofuke's Tokachigawa Onsen is farm country's answer to a spa town — rare moor hot springs the color of dark tea, minutes from Obihiro.

🚜Shihoro士幌町

Shihoro turned its potatoes into an agricultural empire — the town co-op pioneered Japan's potato-chip industry.

🎈Kamishihoro上士幌町

Ballooning over the Tokachi plain, the Naitai highland farm — Japan's largest public ranch — and bridge ruins emerging from Lake Nukabira.

🚜Shikaoi鹿追町

Shikaoi opens onto Lake Shikaribetsu, Tokachi's 'lake in the sky' — home to a unique native trout and a village built of ice each winter.

🚜Shintoku新得町

Shintoku is Tokachi's soba town and home to award-winning alpine cheesemakers — with a resort ski hill above the buckwheat fields.

🚜Shimizu清水町

Shimizu sits where the Tokachi plain meets the Hidaka wall — gateway to the Millennium Forest gardens and big-sky dairy country.

🚜Memuro芽室町

Memuro leads Japan in sweet corn and invented gateball — grandma-approved sport of champions — amid perfectly gridded Tokachi fields.

🚜Nakasatsunai中札内村

Nakasatsunai is edamame country with an art twist — a confectioner's sculpture garden village blooms among the birch groves.

🚜Sarabetsu更別村

Sarabetsu farms potatoes and sugar beets on heroic scales, and grows a village orchard of northern plums.

🚜Taiki大樹町

Taiki is Japan's 'space town' — a private rocket spaceport launches from its Pacific coast, cheese wheels age in its dairies.

🚜Hiroo広尾町

Hiroo is Santa's official Japanese hometown (licensed by Norway, no less) and a serious fishing port for shishamo and salmon.

🚜Makubetsu幕別町

Makubetsu invented park golf — now played all over Japan — and its Churui district yielded a near-complete Naumann elephant skeleton.

🚜Ikeda池田町

Ikeda built a castle for wine — Japan's pioneering municipal winery has poured Tokachi reds since the 1960s.

🚜Toyokoro豊頃町

Toyokoro's winter beach glitters with 'jewelry ice' — crystal-clear river ice polished by Pacific waves — and a lone elm tree poses in its pasture.

🚜Honbetsu本別町

Honbetsu is Tokachi's bean town — azuki and kidney beans by the silo-load, celebrated in everything from sweets to shochu.

🚜Ashoro足寄町

Ashoro grows fuki butterbur taller than people and guards Onneto, a five-color caldera lake at the foot of Mt. Meakan.

🚜Rikubetsu陸別町

Rikubetsu is officially Japan's coldest town — it celebrates with a February endurance festival and stargazing through a giant public telescope.

🚜Urahoro浦幌町

Urahoro rolls from Tokachi grain fields down to a wild Pacific shore — quiet farm country with clifftop ocean lookouts.