TORO Nature Center Winter Tours English

Winter Tour Menu

Deep emotions, excitement and lasting impressions!
Words can't describe the beauty of these spectacular natural wetlands.
Come and feel for yourself the beauty and wonder of the natural surroundings found in the Kushiro wetlands National Park!

Touch the nature in HOKKAIDO

Index for 2017-2018

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Complimentary rides from/to TORO Station to/from TORO Nature Centre available.

　[Nature] [Canoe] [Optional] [Special] [Winter]

Winter Special Tours from December 2021 to March 2022 [Booking/Enquiry]

Awesome! Enjoy One Day Winter Special

Choose 3 out of the 4 available programs.

Smelt Fishing on Ice

Let's enjoy ice fishing. The fish which you caught is tempura on the spot

Snow Shoes Tours

Let's put on snowshoes and hike through the Kushiro wetlands!

Nature Watching Winter Special

Touch the Nature of Kushiro Wetland National Park

The Canoeing Tour in KUSHIRO Marshland – Hoar Frost Course –
Enjoy the scenery of the wintery Kushiro wetlands!

The Canoeing Tour – Hoar Frost Course – & Nature Watching Winter Special

Enjoy the scenery from both a canoe and the top of a hill.

The Canoeing Tour – Hoar Frost Course – & Smelt Fishing on Ice

Enjoy the Canoeing and Ice Fishing!

The Canoeing Tour – Hoar Frost Course – & Japanese red-crowned crane observation tour !
Enjoy the Canoeing and Crane observation tour. One of the most popular.

The River Watching Tour in KUSHIRO Marshland by the Drift Boat
For the group or family with young kids.

Japanese red-crowned crane observation tour ! -Winter schedule -
Let's get to know the Japanese crane!

The Weather & Clothes for Winter

is available free transport from/to downtown Kushiro

Awesome! Enjoy One Day Winter Special

This is a one day course through the wintery Kushiro Marshland.

Choose 3 out of the 4 available programs.

The Canoeing Tour in KUSHIRO Marshland - Hoar Frost Course - or Snowshoes Tour or Dutch Oven Lunch or Smelt Fishing on Ice... You can choose 3 of these and enjoy a full days course!

Required Time: About. 6 hours (transfer included)

Tour Fee: JPY28,000/per person (Tour carried out from 2 persons or more)

Meeting Place: TORO Nature Center, [Reservation required]

Promotion Cord ： ENJOYWIN2023

Discount JPY1,000 per person by this promortion cord on your booking.

[Cash Pay Only]

Complimentary rides to & from hotel in Kushiro available.

Smelt Fishing on Ice

Snowshoes Tour

The Canoeing Tour

Dutch Oven Lunch

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Smelt Fishing on Ice

Lake TAKKOBU, Lake SHIRARUTORO

Have an exceptional experience ice fishing for Japanese pond smelt and eating fish which you caught is tempura on the spot!
But first, you have to catch them...

Required Time: About. 2 hours -not including traveling time-

Tour Fee: JPY10,000/per person (Tour carried out from 2 persons or more)

Meeting Place: Lake Takkobu Parking, [Reservation required]

07.00, 08.00, 09.00, 10.00, 11.00, 12.00, 13.00 start

Hotel pick up service including:JPY18,000/per person (Tour carried out from 2 persons or more) only downtown KUSHIRO

Tour Scheduled Time: Pickup from hotel 08:00, Arrival at hotel 12:00

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Snow Shoes Tours

Forest of TORO Nature Center

Required Time: About. 2 hours -not including traveling time-

Tour Fee: JPY14,000/per person (Tour carried out from 2 persons or more)

Meeting Place: TORO Nature Center, [Reservation required]

Tour Scheduled Time: Pickup from hotel 08:00, Arrival at hotel 12:00

Complimentary rides to & from hotel in Kushiro available.

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Nature Watching Winter Special

Discover the winter wonders of Hokkaido!

Required Time: Approx. 2 hours -not including traveling time-

Tour Fee: JPY14,000/per person (Tour carried out from 2 persons or more)

Meeting Place: TORO Nature Center, [Reservation required]

Tour Scheduled Time: Pickup from hotel 08:00, Arrival at hotel 12:00

Complimentary rides to & from hotel in Kushiro available

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The Canoeing Tour in KUSHIRO Marshland
– Hoar Frost Course –

Lake TORO - FUTAMATA (AREKINAI River)
This is an insider's tip canoe course.
Floating slowly and quietly downstream and feeling the fantastic wetlands atmosphere is an exceptional experience!

Required Time: About. 1.5 Hour

Tour Fee: JPY11,500/per person (2 guests on a canoe)

Meeting Place: TORO Nature Center, [Reservation required]

Tour scheduled: from December to March.
07.00, 08.00, 09.00, 10.00, 11.00, 12.00, 13.00 start

Complimentary rides available from/to JR Toro Station or around Toro.

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The Canoeing Tour – Hoar Frost Course –

& Nature Watching Winter Special

See two faces of the wintery Kushiro Marshland!

One view from the canoe and the other from the top of a hill!

Enjoy with this activity with its stunning views!

Required Time: About 4 hours - including traveling time -

Tour Fee: JPY24,000/per person (2 guests on a canoe)

Meeting Place: TORO Nature Center, [Reservation required]

Tour Scheduled Time: Pickup from hotel 06:00, 07:00 or 08:00, Arrival at hotel 11:00 12:00 or 13:00

Promotion Cord ： ENJOYWIN2023

Discount JPY1,000 per person by this promortion cord on your booking.

[Cash Pay Only,]

Complimentary rides to & from hotel in Kushiro available [Booking/Enquiry]

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The Canoeing Tour – Hoar Frost Course –
& Smelt Fishing on Ice

See two faces of the wintery Kushiro Marshland!

One view from the canoe and the other on the ice!

Enjoy with this activity with its stunning views and taste!

Required Time: About 5 hours - including traveling time -

Tour Fee: JPY24,000/per person (2 guests on a canoe)

Meeting Place: TORO Nature Center, [Reservation required]

Tour Scheduled Time: Pickup from hotel 07:00 Arrival at hotel 12:00

Promotion Cord ： ENJOYWIN2023

Discount JPY1,000 per person by this promortion cord on your booking.

[Cash Pay Only,]

Complimentary rides to & from hotel in Kushiro available [Booking/Enquiry]

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The Canoeing Tour – Hoar Frost Course –
& Japanese red-crowned crane observation tour !

See two faces of the wintery Kushiro Marshland!

One view from the canoe and Red-croened crane observation tour.

Enjoy with this activity with its stunning views and cranes!

Required Time: About 5.5 hours - including traveling time -

Tour Fee: JPY27,000/per person (2 guests on a canoe)

Meeting Place: TORO Nature Center, [Reservation required]

Tour Scheduled Time: Pickup from hotel 07:00 or 08:00, Arrival at hotel 12:00 or 13:00

Promotion Cord ： ENJOYWIN2023

Discount JPY1,000 per person by this promortion cord on your booking.

[Cash Pay Only]

Complimentary rides to & from hotel in Kushiro available [Booking/Enquiry]

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The River Watching Tour in KUSHIRO Marshland
by the Drift Boat

KAYANUMA - SUGAWARA (Main stream of KUSHIRO River)

Required Time: About. 2 Hours

Tour Fee: JPY9,500/per person (Tour carried out from 3 persons or more)

Meeting Place: TORO Nature Center, [Reservation required]

Tour scheduled: through out the year.

Scheduled Time: * 10:00~12:00, * 12:00~14:00

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Japanese red-crowned crane observation tour !
-Winter schedule -

Let's get to know the Japanese crane! This is an all season tour which provides the possibility to see the Kushiro Marshland and lets us realize the symbiosis of nature and humans while observing the Japanese crane.

Required Time: About. 3 Hours

Tour Fee: JPY11,500/per person (Tour carried out from 2 persons or more)

Meeting Place: TORO Nature Center, [Reservation required]

Tour Scheduled Time 09:30~12:30

Complimentary rides available from/to JR Toro Station or around Toro.

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About weather
The weather of winter Eastern Hokkaido will be a clear days very much.

It is fine, and fine day with a deep blue sky in opens continues.

Of course we have a few the snowy day, but there is not many it like the Sea of Japan side and an inland.

Anyway, it is cold by radiational cooling very much in the night and the early morning because no cloud in the sky.

In the day time, the feeling temperature is higher than night time temperature, because sunlight is very strong.

Of course, please keep protection against the cold in mind because here is sub zero area (the highest temperature is negative even in a mid day).
and our daytime is shorten very much in comparison with Honshu.

You should think about what can be active in outdoor from 7:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
Because, the sunrise is 7:00am, and the sunset is about 4:00 p.m. around here.

IIt is Hokkaido time isn't is? Please make a schedule in the best time.

About clothes between the winter season

Underwear
A polyester-based chemical fiber superior in quick-drying with the top and bottom is good.
Because it becomes easy to lose temperature when you get wet with sweat because dehydration is slow, the cotton is NG.

The thing named the Heat Teck recently, too.

(the underwear here points at the underwear of tights and long sleeves).

Shirt & Pants(Trousers)

This will not so have to mind
The beest one is easy to dry.
The inner underwear of the down is good, too.

Middleware
A sweater of the fleece or a down jacket is good.

Outerwear

Winterization, waterproofing, storm characteristics.
If there is a thing of the top and bottom in moisture-permeable material such as the Gore-Tex, it is the best.

The thing with a few momenta including the fresh-water smelt fishing will have good down, too.

Socks
Thick things such as a chemical fiber or the woolen yarn are good.

Shoes

Protection against the cold, a thing with the waterproofness are good

Pack boots are the best.

Gloves
You should take them made by Wool, a chemical fiber.

Hat
A thing hiding to an ear is good if possible.

Others
Muffler or neck warmer
Cairo…When there is it, it is warm.
Sunglasses…A fine weather rate is high, and the good reflected heat is hard.