Hokkaido Road trips

Road Trip #1: Lake Toya 

On our second Saturday in Niseko, 21st November. We took off with the van to visit Lake Toya for a day trip with 3 friends from Estonia and 2 from Poland. We didn't have international driving license so they drove us along. Lake toya is about 42km away from Hirafu and it took us an hour to reach.

 

The view was amazing as we drove along the road surrounding the lake

Went down the van to have a closer view of the lake. The moment we went down it was freezing cold, strong wind that our ears hurt so bad. Have to run back the van to grab my beanie haha.

 

the lake is beautiful!

We took the Uzusan ropeway up mt Usu (1500 yen round trip)

 

view of lake Toya from above

There's a hiking trail that is temporary close for maintenance but we trespassed 

The place looks quite dry

Road trip #2: Shakotan 

On the next day Sunday 22nd November, i planned to visit Shakotan peninsula as i heard it was beautiful so i asked a friend from Czech Republic if he would like to go with us, he went with us and drove us along. It was about 73km, took us one and a half hours to reach, it was a long drive.

Stopped by this place where there's lots of people fishing

We can see the sea along the road

We're finally here!! We took another 30 min to reach cape Kamui. Enjoying every moment there.

The view is just breathtaking! Cant stop wow-ing as we walked around.

Cape Kamui

That's our friend 

We didn't have much time as the sky is getting dark early but we manage to some other places then head back.

Road trip #3: Noboribetsu

The next weekend all of us workers went to visit Noboribetsu. This is our last day trip as the snow is starting to fall the day after and so it is hard to drive on slippery road.

You can see smoke coming up everywhere and hot sulfur water boiling underneath 




We all went to the walking trail. It was quite dangerous as the trail is covered with slippery ice. We kept falling, it was scary!  


Found this natural foot spa whee

The water is warm, not hot enough but feels good to soak in after a long walk. I didn't bring any towel so end up  drying my feet with the wind after that.

After that we went for onsen and then homeee