To Hokkaido in Summer

We went to Hokkaido to get away from the heat.

It's the northern island of Japan that has vast wilderness areas and stays relatively cool in the Summer. We choose the area of Kushiro to retreat from the crushing humidity stew of Tokyo.

Kushiro has a huge wetland area where we saw lots of wildlife including Northern Fox and the large Japanese crane called a Toncho. The culture up there is primarily farming and fishing as well as making sea weed to eat. The train rides were lovely through vast stretches of forest. We traveled north to an area that looked like the Marin headlands with a cool fog blowing through. We treated ourselves to outdoor bar b q with all sorts of goodies from the sea. After five days of cooling down we got back on the plane and flew back to Tokyo where I promptly got heat rash.