Rough Guides - Hokkaido: Rough Guides Snapshot Japan

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INTRODUCTION TO HOKKAID

An unspoiled frontier, an escape from industrialized Japan and achance to connect with nature although this vision of Hokkaid is rose-tinted,Japans main northern island certainly has an untamed and remote quality. Overseventy percent of it is covered by forest, and wildlife is ubiquitous, both in andout of the enormous national parks, where youll also find snow-covered slopes,active volcanoes and bubbling onsen. This is Japans second-largest island, withtwenty-two percent of the nations landmass, yet a mere five percent of thepopulation lives here. Even so, cities such as the stylish capital Sapporo andhistorically important Hakodate are just as sophisticated and packed with facilitiesas their southern cousins.