Toro, Shibecha, Kawakami, Hokkaido 088-2264 JAPAN

Phone +81-1548-7-3100 Facsimile +81-1548-7-3101

Winter Tour Menu

Touch the nature in HOKKAIDO

Index for 2024-2025

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

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Winter Special Tours   from December 2024 to March 2025      [Booking/Enquiry]

Hoarfrost, deposit of ice crystals on objects exposed to the free air, such as grass blades, tree branches, or leaves. It is formed by direct condensation of water vapour to ice at temperatures below freezing and occurs when air is brought to its frost point by cooling. Hoarfrost is formed by a process analogous to that by which dew is formed on similar objects, except that, in the case of dew, the saturation point of the air mass is above freezing. The occurrence of temperatures below 0° C (32° F) is not enough to guarantee the formation of hoarfrost. Additionally, the air must be initially damp enough so that when cooled it reaches saturation, and any additional cooling will cause condensation to occur.

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: JPY36,000/per person (Tour carried out from 2 persons or more)

Meeting Place: TORO Nature Center, [Reservation required]

Promotion Cord ： ENJOYWIN2025

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

[Cash Pay Only]

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

Smelt Fishing on Ice  

Snowshoes Tour

The Canoeing Tour 

Dutch Oven Lunch

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Smelt Fishing on Ice

Lake TORO

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)

Possible need fishing license fee: JPY1,000/per person

Meeting Place: TORO Nature Center or pick up Toro Sta. [ [Reservation required]

07.00, 08.00, 09.00, 10.00, 11.00, 12.00, 13.00 start                           [Booking/Enquiry]

Hotel pick up service including: 

JPY20,000/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: JPY20,000/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.                        [Booking/Enquiry]

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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: JPY20,000/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                      [Booking/Enquiry]

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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: JPY12,000/per person (2 guests on a canoe)

Meeting Place: TORO Nature Center or Toro Sta. [Reservation required]

Tour scheduled: from December to March.
07.00, 07.30, 08.00, 09.00, 10.00, 11.00, 12.00, 13.00 start                           [Booking/Enquiry]

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

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The Canoeing Tour – Hoar Frost Course –

& Nature Watching Short

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: JPY25,000/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  10:00 11:00 or 12:00

Promotion Cord ： ENJOYWIN2025

Discount JPY1,000 per person by this promotion 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: JPY28,000/per person (2 guests on a canoe)

Possible need fishing license fee: JPY1,000/per person

Meeting Place: TORO Nature Center, [Reservation required]

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

Promotion Cord ： ENJOYWIN2025

Discount JPY1,000 per person by this promotion 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: JPY30,000/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

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

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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: JPY15,000/per person  (Tour carried out from 2 persons or more)

Meeting Place: TORO Nature Center or Toro Sta. 09.24 [Reservation required]

Tour Scheduled Time   09:30~12:30                                                        [Booking/Enquiry]

MARCH ... from the feeding places to Marsh land. making a nest.

collecting died reeds and makes a nest

it is form of plate approximately 30cm in height and 2m in diameter.

in general, they have two eggs and are brooding of eggs for approximately 32 days.

their territory is extensive with 2 to 7 square kilometres.

MAY ... hatching

after brooding of approximately 32 days, Chicks are borne in approximately 130g in weight, 13cm in length.

a feather dries after incubation in 3-4 hours, and the fledgling begins to move when they do it in the half day.

fledgling begins to move and leaves the nest with a parent bird in 3 days.

AUGUST ... flight

The fledgling becomes able to fly after incubation for approximately 100 days.

It becomes the almost same size of their parent bird , but the top of a neck is still brown.

OCTOBER ... from Marsh land to the feeding place

parent birds come over to the feeding place with their juveniles.

they go to the feeding place and return their roost a day until March of the next year.

their parting begins in about February and the parent bird leaves their juveniles there and comes back to their territory in Marsh land.

The juveniles make groups with another young birds until they become the adult bird at 4 years old.

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.

It 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.

Toro, Shibecha, Kawakami Hokkaido 0882264 JAPAN
Phone:015-487-3100
Facsimile:015-487-3101
E-mail : toro@dotoinfo.com