Shiraoi is beautiful all year round .
I would like to introduce to you what delicious foods and fun things to do in the Shiraoi-cho Kojohama area in autumn.
Welcome to experience Shiraoi Town in autumn!
📌Features of Kojohama area
- The Kojohama area is rich in cod roe, salmon, kelp, log mushrooms, and Kojohama hot springs is supplied 100% with water straight from the hot spring sources.
- Lake Kuttara is recognized as having the best water quality in all of Japan. And the lake ranks second to Lake Mashū according to the Ministry of the Environment.
📌Itinerary features:
- See and learn: Natural Skincare Garden + Aquatic Products Company Seafood Direct Store
- Special food: boiled hairy crab + seafood rice bowl with local ingredients
- Local attractions: Seafood Street + Uyoro River Salmon run + Pacific Ocean Views
- Experience: Making bookmarks or sachets
📌Itinerary contents:
9:00am Gathering at the Kojohama Station
※Kojohama Station is an unmanned station. When approaching your destination, you need to walk to the front (the train with the driver).
After the train stops! ! ! Need to open the door manually! ! ! Otherwise, you will miss the station ! ! !
9:05am～10:00am Stroll along the seafood street (end point: Ao Mineyama Kan’onji （ Temple ）)
It only takes about 5 minutes to walk to the seafood street from Hojohama Station.
The seafood street has many shops selling processed seafood on the right side of the road.
There is a scenery that only belongs to autumn. You can see drying dried fish in the sun in front of the store or on the road near the sea.
There is a photo exhibition of the Showa Era on the outer walls of the abandoned buildings on both sides of the road. It is like being on a time shuttle and you can experience the scenes of people’s life in the Showa Era .
There is a small bridge at the end of seafood street . If you are lucky, you can see salmon run on the bridge from mid-September to early November.
10:10am～12:10pm 【Natural Skincare Garden 】
If you are a fan of unique fragrances, please don’t miss this place. By smelling various scents, you can make your own fragrance spray.
You will also learn the basic knowledge of fragrance making (it turns out that fragrance must have various odors (body odor, foot odor) mixed together to smell better).
And here have a natural cosmetics factory, so there are direct cosmetics stores. You can find souvenirs for different ages!
Certainly you can bring your children to play in the here. There are not only various experience activities, but also outdoor parks, various play equipment, the water fountain of Lake Kuttara, etc., so children can consume their energy all day long.
- Address：393-12. Kojohama, Shiraoi
- Opening Hours：am10:00 – pm5:00
- Closed：Wednesday, Thursday(Opened national holiday)
*Closed the Year-End and New Year days
12:20pm～2:00pm 【Kani-O】 Freshly caught and boiled hairy crabs
Hairy crab, one of Hokkaido’s specialties. Here you can choose your own hairy crab, and then wait for 17 minutes. The store will cut it all and deliver it to you. Please sit in the store and slowly taste the taste of Hokkaido! The price changes according to the season. The hairy crabs in Shiraoi Town are plump in July and August, and they are full of crab roe!
- Address：113-13, Takeura, Shiraoi
- Opening Hours：9:00am – 5:00pm
- Closed：No closing day
pm2:10～pm3:00 【Hikaru Umi】 Seafood Rice Bowl
Newly opened in 2023. The Pacific Ocean is visible from the store. If you want to eat seasonal seafood, don’t miss this store.
- Address: 116-11 Takeura, Shiraoi-cho
- Opening hours: 11:00am~3:00pm
- Closed: Tuesday
Lake Kuttara, placed first in the lakes and marshes division of the nationwide measurement of water quality in public areas, commissioned by the Ministry of Environment in 2001. Lake Kuttara is an 8-kilometer (circumference) lake situated inside the Shikotsu-Toya National Park reserve. It is the second most transparent and beautiful lake after Lake Mashu.Addition[Origin of the Name] Derived from the lake “Kuttara Shi To” in Kojohama
[Birth] The caldera lake was presumed to have been the result of the eruption of Kuttara Volcano over 40,000 years ago.
[Total surface area] 4.7 square kilometers, 19th largest in the nation
[Total lake volume] 0.491 cubic kilometers, 7th in the nation
[Elevation of the lake] 257 meters, 8th in the nation
[Depth] 147 meters at the deepest point, and average of 104.5 meters, the 4th deepest in the nation
[Water quality] COD = 0.7mg Number one in the nation
[Transparency] 28.3 meters, 2nd in the nation
[Curvature of the lake] 1.05 the first in the nation (refers to how close to being a complete circle the lake is)
pm5:00 【 Kojohama Hot Spring 】
You can stay for one night in Kojohama. Please enjoy the Kojohama Hot Spring!
