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🏷️ Winter

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Abashiri Drift Ice Icebreaker
✨ Experience

Abashiri Drift Ice Icebreaker

Board a bright-orange icebreaker and crunch out into the frozen Sea of Okhotsk, where for a few weeks each winter the ocean itself turns into a shifting white plain of pack ice.

📍 Hokkaido, Abashiri 💴 Paid ⏱ Half day
❄️ Winter
Asahiyama Zoo Penguin Walk
🦊 Animals

Asahiyama Zoo Penguin Walk

At Japan's northernmost zoo, the winter highlight isn't an exhibit — it's a parade of king penguins waddling right past your feet through the snow, twice a day.

📍 Hokkaido, Asahikawa 💴 Paid ⏱ Half day
❄️ Winter
Tsurui Red-Crowned Cranes
🦊 Animals

Tsurui Red-Crowned Cranes

In the snowfields of eastern Hokkaido, Japan's rare red-crowned cranes gather each winter to feed — and to dance, leaping and bowing in pairs in one of nature's most elegant displays.

📍 Hokkaido, Tsurui 🆓 Free ⏱ Half day
❄️ Winter
Jigokudani Snow Monkey Park
🦊 Animals

Jigokudani Snow Monkey Park

In a steaming mountain valley in Nagano, wild Japanese macaques climb down each winter to soak in a hot spring — the only place in the world where monkeys are known to bathe in an onsen of their own.

📍 Nagano, Yamanouchi 💴 Paid ⏱ Half day
❄️ Winter
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