Out of the Blizzard, Back to Home
(This column is the second installment in a 2-part series. Read part one here.) As we made our escape south
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Horseshoes and Back Bowls: An Avalanche Epic
Niels Bohr was a Nobel physicist famous for his humorous jousts with Einstein. Legend has it that he was once
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Photographer Chris Barnes
Chris Barnes is an Australian photographer currently living in the Niseko area of Hokkaido. Although new to the field of
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Sapporo’s Adanonki brings together craft beer and used books
In a weathered-looking building one block south of Odori Park’s 6-chome, a variety of shops are hidden away and sought out mostly by those few customers who know what they’re looking for. One such hideaway is Adanonki, a used book store which also offers a rotating selection of craft beer in a soon-to-be-enlarged space.
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Saori Ito: A Journey Home
The small town of Engaru sits roughly in the center of the Okhotsk region of Hokkaido, where the Yubetsu River, among many others, provide a fertile environment for crops.
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Yotei Views: A Stradivarius in Niseko
Some years ago, the Australian Chamber Orchestra ‘miraculously’ appeared at Hanazono 308 just a couple of hundred yards down the
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Into the Blizzard, on to Soya Misaki
In the fading twilight a blackness could be seen stretching out before us on the horizon. It wasn’t the night
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New this year at the Sapporo Snow Festival: Projection Mapping
One of the new features of the Sapporo Snow Festival this year is a special show using a technology called
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Coming this month: A report from Niseko, a business profile, and more
Greetings from the Hokkaido Explorer mobile newsroom (coffe and wi-fi are abundant), where I wanted to write a quick note
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Strong quake felt across Hokkaido
An earthquake centered near Obihiro with a preliminary magnitude of 6.5 was felt across a wide area of northern and eastern Japan on Saturday night. The quake, which struck at 11:17, was at its strongest a strong 5 on the Japanese intensity scale in. There was no threat of a tsunami.
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