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Soun-kyo

The scenic area where the autumnal tints of the best of Japan early Daxue Shan system are tasted up

Japan where about 24 km of cliff cliff continues along Ishikari River is an outstanding canyon in Soun-kyo located in the base of Daxue Shan ancestry which participates in Hokkaido central part. It's around the end of ordinary year August Daxue Shan system peak is the place where the best of Japan colored leaves of early times start, and that a mountain begins to color. Colored leaves are coming down to Soun-kyo hot spring in the foot of a mountain gradually, and you can enjoy yourself until the middle of October.
The spot which can enjoy a superb view of colored leaves is filling around Soun-kyo collaboration of conjugal fall "waterfall in a galaxy and a meteor" and colored leaves of 2 which drop from a steep cliff and turning in the whole surface of the birch I see from "Kurodake ropeway" where Kurodake climbs five stations from hot spring district. "Silver Izumidai" where the a place famous for beautiful colored autumnal leaves I'd like also to visit by all means at the inside is cross with Daxue Shan system east and the east inclination of Akadake. Beauty by which red of a deciduous tree and a broadleaf tree, orange, yellow and green of a coniferous tree wove, fell and also resembled a colored picture very much in how many layers is touching?

[Best time of colored leaves] at the beginning ofordinary year October-at the middle of October.
[The kind of trees] HAUCHIWAKAEDE, western paper birch and a birch.

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Then for about 1 month, "Momijidani" to which you can walk from Soun-kyo hot spring holds a light up of colored leaves and an event of digital art "IRUMINETO of miracle" from the middle of every year September. An umbrella is presented to the one at which a specially-installed meeting place enters, and art of light and the sense which becomes one can be enjoyed.

▼ 8th of IRUMINETO of miracle
Date: 2025 year September 14 (Sun)-October 13 (Mon)18:00-21:00 (last entrance 20:30)
A place: Soun-kyo Momijidani.
Specially-installed meeting place Admission: 1000 yen
URL:https://sounkyo.net/event/illuminate/

Soun-kyo

• Sounkyo, Kamikawa-cho, Kamikawa-gun, Hokkaido. MAP
• It's a car from JR Kamikawa Station, about 40 minutes
  Embussment and "Soun-kyo" get off JR Kamikawa Station, immediately.
• Kurodake ropeway 6:00-18:00 (There is a fluctuation by a season.)
• Kurodake ropeway Open everyday
• Kurodake ropeway (round trip) adult of 3000 yen and a child of 1500 yen
• 01658-2-1811 (Soun-kyo tourist association)
• Free
• The service status of a ropeway is subject to confirmation in SNS.
  https://x.com/rinyu_kurodake

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Biei-cho

Superb view in the late fall person's work interweaves with great outdoors

The hill where a multicolored flower blooms like a patchwork when saying Biei-cho, there may be a lot of people who remember. But the landscape of the late fall a flower has finished, something pleasant. When profit of potato and soybean ends, and a bud of a winter wheat develops, a larch in a windbreak begins to color vividly. The landscape over which the earth seen here and there in hills, the larch woods where green gradation and gold are brilliant and the Tokachidake chain of mountains where snow was put on over Haruka spread creates beauty great outdoors and person's provision became united with which including a view alpine flower zone "hill of a color scheme of four seasons".
A member also shows me a different expression this season popular tourist attraction in Biei "the pond where platinum is blue". Only while a late fall is all short, the contrast a blue surface and turning of a larch draw is the valuable landscape which isn't seen. How about taking a picture of the moment when a heart is quivered while enjoying a willful drive?

[Best time of colored leaves] except for a mountainous region, at the end of ordinary year October.
[The kind of trees] larch

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A larch turns yellow quickly during 1 week at the end of October-beginning of November-about 10 days and is the pine tree which defoliates everything so that I may write "larch". Time frame of turning is short, so I overlook and cry.

Biei-cho

• Biei-cho, Kamikawa-gun, Hokkaido MAP
• Hill of a color scheme of four seasons It's a car more than JR Biei Station, about 12 minutes
  The pond where platinum is blue It's a car from JR Biei Station, about 20 minutes
  I get off embussment and the "pond entrance where platinum is blue more than JR Biei Station, immediately.
• Hill of a color scheme of four seasons 9:10-16:30 (There is a fluctuation by a season. It's subject to confirmation in HP.)
  The pond where platinum is blue Year-round
• Hill of a color scheme of four seasons 7-September: It's smaller than a high school student 500 yen, a* junior high school student of 300 yen and elementary students sheep full no charge
  There is a charge for vehicle use and alpaca pasture entrance variously.
  The pond where platinum is blue Free.
• 0166-92-4378 (information house Information of the four seasons)
• Hill of a color scheme of four seasons Summer payment required (500 yen)
  The pond where platinum is blue Payment required (500 yen)
• The available hours of pond Parking where platinum is blue is subject to confirmation in HP.

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Jozankei (quire, ZANKEI) hot spring

It's satisfied with five big colored leaves much at a grove of hot water from Sapporo.

"Grove of" hot water from Sapporo where Jozankei hot spring designated as "Shikotsu-toya (I do and ask about the trick.), national park" is blessed with grand nature and the rich volume of hot water. Because it'll be visited casually in less than 1 hour by car from the Sapporo center, I bustle with many citizens and tourists through 1 year. It's also learned about as a place famous for beautiful colored autumnal leaves of the number of whole nationalization, hot spring district, as I take a walk, the color can meet the vivid landscape.
There are many spots of colored leaves popular with vicinage in hot spring district, too, and a shuttle bus is running respectively to 5 carefully selected superb view areas "five big colored leaves" in October. In Sadayama lake, the Senjo rock (quire IWA which isn't done) and the track, the pleasure only of this time is filling the scenic beauty of the flamboyant autumn a best arch principle dam "Hohei-kyo dam" draws and the "rain jacket bus of colored leaves" which a tour guide will guide to the spot of colored leaves which isn't learned about.

[Best time of colored leaves] the beginning of ordinary year October-middle ten days
[The kind of trees] Acer pictum, a mountain ash, a mountain maple, a varnish tree, a white birch, wild grapevine, Cherryblossom, SHINA and a wig.

▼ Jozankei where I go by bus Five big colored leaves
URL:https://jozankei.jp/godaikoyo/

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There is much stay Property where day trip bathing is possible in Jozankei hot spring. When having time to spare, please enjoy some time when you use it for an efficacious hot spring and look at colored leaves by all means.

Jozankei hot spring

• Jozankei, Minami-ku, Sapporo-shi, Hokkaido hot spring MAP
• It's a car from JR Sapporo Station, about 50 minutes
  Embussment gets off in front of the Hokuren building, number 26 or the 27th boarding point "before Jozankei shrine", immediately, (Jozankei Tourist Information Center)
• 011-598-2012 (Jozankei tourist association)
• Free (Jozankei sports park public Parking).

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Hokkaido University

I take a walk through a golden tunnel comfortably at a vast northern school.

Hokkaido University which keeps a front gate in the location of about 7 minutes on foot from Sapporo Station. The abundant trees are wanton in a vast campus where it takes pride in its area of for about 38 Tokyo domes, and that I'm at the Sapporo center, SHI, when, I make them forget to do.
The gingko row of trees by which it's from a front gate at about 700 m of place to the north is one of the spot I'd like to visit by all means in Sapporo in a late fall. 70 gingko trees compare with both sides on about 380 m of way through a department of dentistry and between the College of Gastronomy Management, and I begin to color from the end of October. An arch of vivid turning is over head soon, and the vicinity aspect is overwhelmed by beauty which beams in gold along with a fallen leaf of the gingko which covers up a foot. Many citizens and tourists throng time of the best time, the part by which this is education research Property primarily. Please obey and enjoy rules of premises so that the scholar environment isn't disturbed.

[Best time of colored leaves] at the end ofordinary year October-at the beginning of November.
[The kind of trees] a gingko and a poplar.

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There are many spots for which photograph is conspicuous a colored Ono pond in turning of Namiki of POPLAR and the colorful autumnal tints in addition to a gingko row of trees in Hokkaido University premises. Please take a camera and enjoy walk slowly.

Hokkaido University

• Kita-ku, Sapporo-shi, Hokkaido north 13 article western 5-7-Chome MAP
• From the subway Kita-junijo Station, about 6 minutes on foot
• I don't have that (Pay Parking in a neighborhood is used.)
• The turning situation is subject to confirmation in Hokkaido University formal Instagram account.

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State-operated Takino lily of the valley hilly area park

Collaboration of fall and a rainbow is the pleasure only of the colored leaves season.

Hokkaido where it's in the southern part, the only national government managed park. About 400 ha of site is divided into 4 zones big, and the pleasure is filling so that you can't finish playing in one day such as the forest where valuable animals and plants live, a valley stream, the garden a flower in each season colors, the large playground equipment which can play with a child and camp Property.
The charm by which it's also a state-operated Takino lily of the valley hilly area park that the various landscapes of colored leaves are seen by a zone. There are many photogenic spots such as 6000 stocks of KOKIA which colors and the great panorama which is overlooked from the promenade buried by multicolored colored leaves and a tower in a watchtower in deep red. The superb view spot the "waterfall in" ASHIRIBETSU where even the inside is chosen as Japanese fall hundred pieces can't overlook. A rainbow appears in the morning when October cleared up, and collaboration with vivid colored leaves and bold fall is born.

[Best time of colored leaves] the beginning of ordinary year October-beginning of November and best time of KOKIA, the beginning of ordinary year October-middle ten days
[The kind of trees] a maple, a wig and a larch.

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You can watch various colored leaves carefully every zone such as a maintained garden and the wildwood where natural work breathes. Wide range is dotted with a highlight, so by the clothes I tend to walk, going, please.

State-operated Takino lily of the valley hilly area park

• Takino, Minami-ku, Sapporo-shi, Hokkaido, 247th area MAP
• It's a car from the subway Makomanai Station, about 17 minutes
  Embussment, "the valley stream mouth" or "central exit" gets off the subway Makomanai Station, immediately.
• 9:00-17:00 (There is a fluctuation by a season.)
• November 11-December 22 and April 1-the 19th
  ※ April 19 and December 22 open one in case of Sunday.
• An adult of 450 yen is free less than 15 years old.
• 011-592-3333 (Takino park Information)
• Payment required
• The information on the situation of the colored leaves and a related event is subject to confirmation in HP.

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Temiya park

The view spot which wishes for Otaru harbor over the deep red Japanese enkianthus

The comprehensive park where you can get a bird's-eye view of Otaru harbor and a city in a hill in the Otaru-shi north. When autumn comes, about 690 cherry trees which delight an eye in a cherry-blossom season show me beauty suitable for a name of "cherry tree colored leaves (cherry tree colored leaves)". About 230 chestnut trees called a northern limit as a wildwood, heavily, the form that a citizen enjoys chestnut picking follows Makoto and it's also charming sights in autumn.
The Temiya afforestation botanical garden where even the inside is in the park, Otaru, it's cut, and, superb view spot of colored leaves. The Japanese enkianthus spread in a slope can color in deep red and enjoy water in Otaru harbor and an excellent contrast with perfectly clear blue sky in the day which cleared up. When timing fits, a harbor, you may be able to take a picture of great Sean who cut the 1st of autumn as well as the outline of a ship of the ferry which oftens call off.

[Best time of colored leaves] at the middle ofordinary year October-at the beginning of November.
[The kind of trees] Japanese enkianthus, a maple and a cherry tree.

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There is an exhibition park in 15 ward in Temiya afforestation botanical garden a Japanese garden, a water garden, a rhododendron garden and a button garden, and the various landscapes can be enjoyed in each season.

Temiya park

• Temiya, Otaru-shi, Hokkaido 2-Chome 5 MAP
• It's a car from JR Otaru Station, about 7 minutes
  From JR Otaru Station, embussment and "Temiya" getting off for about 5 minutes on foot
• Temiya afforestation botanical garden 9:00-17:00 (16:00 is closed in October.)
• Temiya afforestation botanical garden At the middle of November 1-April.
• 0134-32-4111 (Otaru-shi Construction Department construction business room Parks and Greens Division)
• Free

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Noboribetsu hot spring

A demon legend is wrapped by a cloud of steam in the efficacious hot spring with which I gasp, and it's enjoyment of colored leaves.

Noboribetsu hot spring located in the Hokkaido southwest is the very rare hot spring village where a source of various kinds gushes in one hot spring village. Then boiling water and water vapor spout the biggest source place "Jigokudani" and "Oyu marsh" in Noboribetsu hot spring from there or the warming up, and the vicinity aspect is filled with the smell of the sulfur. The surrounding mountain ash and gamble varnish tree will color in deep red in the season of colored leaves, and a hell is just like, I lend gaiety to the landscape made desolate. Oyu Nunokawa who flows out from Oyu marsh has a natural footbath, and it's also fun to love colored leaves while doing a footbath.
After setting, a footlight is burned on an esplanade in Jigokudani, and colored leaves are wrapped by darkness in the fantastic atmosphere surfaced. "Demon fireworks in a hellish valley" are held on weekly Thursday of October. The "hot water demon" made a defence god of hot spring (YUKIJIN) wishes people's perfect state of health and closes fireworks of hand-held fireworks of force perfection.

[Best time of colored leaves] the middle of ordinary year October-last ten days
[The kind of trees] mountain ash, gamble varnish tree and mountain maple

▼ Demon fireworks in a hellish valley
Date: Weekly Thursday of September, 2025 20:00-about 20 minutes, it's canceled at the time of※ bad weather.
A place: Jigokudani observatory
The charge: 500 yen  No charge below the※ elementary students.
Remarks: 1000 people of entrance restriction (When being full, it's impossible to enter before the opening time.)
URL:https://noboribetsu-spa.jp/spot/spot1005/

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An esplanade is maintained around Jigokudani. It's also recommended to extend the journey to Oyu marsh and Oyu marsh natural footbath while appreciating a Japanese Maple on a fine day.

Noboribetsu hot spring

• Noboribetsu-shi, Hokkaido Noboribetsu hot spring town MAP
• It's a car from JR Noboribetsu Station, about 12 minutes
  Embussment and "Noboribetsu hot spring" get off JR Noboribetsu Station, immediately.
• 0143-84-3311 (Noboribetsu international sightseeing convention society)
• Payment required (500 yen and Jigokudani Parking use)

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Toya-ko Lake

A lakeside drive and a ropeway are satisfied with colored leaves by a colorful style.

Toya-ko Lake established by a huge eruption about 110,000 years ago. Nakashima of 4 of big and small appears on a lake, and the scenic scenery which wishes for Usu-zan (would, SUZAN) and Showa-shinzan in Yotei-zan and the south side on the north side spreads. Colored leaves which suit a gentle lake and Yotei-zan called "Ezo Fuji" color as the surrounding mountains will circle a lake at the middle of October, and draw a beautiful contrast.
When I took a drive from Toya-ko Lake hot spring on the south side of the lake, a hall in a cape which projects in a lake was provided "Ukimi-dou park" and the lakeside north side which play taste with, a superb view spot of colored leaves is appearing one after another "Saita (because,), the natural observation way". Besides how to enjoy oneself colored leaves is also all various an excursion for viewing scarlet maple leaves on the lake by colored walk in the air and sightseeing boat by "Usu-zan ropeway". Lake Fireworks Festival is also held every night until the end of October, and autumn in Toya-ko Lake is colored showily.

[Best time of colored leaves] at the middle ofordinary year October-at the beginning of November.
[The kind of trees] a maple, a maple, a Japanese oak and a gingko.

▼ Toya-ko Lake run Fireworks Festival
Date: 20 28(Mon)-10/31(Fri) every night April in 2025: 45-about 20 minutes
A place: Toya-ko Lake hot spring lakeside
URL:https://www.laketoya.com/event/fireworks/

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Could you visit the silo observatory in the west coast in Toya-ko Lake by all means, superb view spot. You can aim at the best shot of which I get a bird's-eye view from Toya-ko Lake to Nakashima, Usu-zan and Showa-shinzan.

Toya-ko Lake

• Hokkaido "Toyako-cho, Abuta-gun" MAP
• It's a car from JR Toya Station, about 10 minutes
  Embussment and "Toya-ko Lake hot spring" get off JR Toya Station, immediately.
• 0142-75-2446 (Toya-ko Lake hot spring tourist association)
• Free
• The operation time of the Usu-zan ropeway, the charges are subject to confirmation in HP (link https://usuzan.hokkaido.jp/ja/).

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In the Miharashi park, "Mr. old Iwafune, garden (Kasetsu Sono)"

Hakodate where a spice is full of summation, best a place famous for beautiful colored autumnal leaves

One in Hokkaido Miou hot spring village and the "Miharashi park" where it's in a hill for about 5 minutes by car from Hakodate Yunokawa hot spring. It's in the park, "Mr. old Iwafune, garden (Kasetsu Sono)" is designated in the only national designated cultural property garden in Hokkaido at the pure Japanese garden made as a villa of a wealthy merchant in the Meiji period and Mr. Iwafune Jiro Mine.
About 150 kinds of tree is planted by a maple and a maple in the park, and Hakodate is also learned about as best a place famous for beautiful colored autumnal leaves. It's dotted with a garden bower in a tea-ceremony house look and the building where Itakura who restored the form of the Showa early stage and Kihashi who spans a valley stream elaborated ideas, and vivid colored leaves add taste.
Whole time frame of "HAKO DA, and, MOMI-G (colored leaves) festival" held from the end of October is lit up night of a spot of colored leaves in the park. It's cold in the evening, so by warm clothes, going, please.

[Best time of colored leaves] at the middle ofordinary year October-at the beginning of November.
[The kind of trees] a maple and OOSAKAZUKI.

▼ HAKO DA, please, MOMI-G festival
Date: 2025 year October 17 (Fri)-November 3 (Mon)
Light up :16:00-21:00
A place: Mr. old Iwafune, garden (Kasetsu Sono)
The charge: Free.
URL:https://www.hakobura.jp/events/352

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The technique of the real landscape style garden is used for Kasetsu Sono, and there are many spots which make a picture. A maple row of trees even about 100 m of inside follows and OOSAKAZUKI in front of Itakura who colors first are recommended to commemorative photography.

In the Miharashi park, "Mr. old Iwafune, garden (Kasetsu Sono)"

• Miharashicho, Hakodate-shi, Hokkaido, 56th area MAP
• It's a car from a Hakodate streetcar "Yunokawa" trolley stop, about 5 minutes
  Embussment and "Kasetsu Sono" get off JR Hakodate Station, about 1 minute on foot
• Year-round (garden bower and green center 9:00-17:00)
• Open everyday (in 12-March, opening to the public suspension inside the garden bower)
• Free
• 0138-57-6210 (center of the Miharashi park green)
• Free

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Onuma quasi national park

Colored leaves and Activity are enjoyed fully at the scenic area where I wish for Subon.

Quasi national park dotted with 3 of lakes and marshes and islands of big and small centering on grand Akita Komaga take. Abundant Mori who breathes feels various animals and plants are wide in the foot of a mountain area, and a shoreline and an islet with a lot of winding form cityscape like a Japanese garden around the lakes and marshes.
You show me beauty which became united with Akita Komaga take where Onuma lake, Onuma lake and a lakeside stretch in a water shield marsh will color and draw a handsome mountain ridge vividly at time of the colored leaves. A style of enjoyment of colored leaves begins to go cycling and row to a lake by a canoe, and takes a walk through Onuma lakeside of going around 14km by tour guide's information, and is various. "Onuma night Halloween and light up cruise of colored leaves" are held at the end of October every year, and darkness can enjoy a sightseeing boat cruise (Reservation required) while looking at the colored leaves surfaced.

[Best time of colored leaves] at the middle ofordinary year October-at the beginning of November.
[The kind of trees] maple kinds and mountain maple Japanese oak beech varnish tree other ones

▼ Onuma night Halloween and light up cruise of colored leaves
Date: 2025 year October 25 (Sat) and 26 day (Sun)
A place: Onuma park square
(A company) of TEL:0138-67-3500 Turning around, Donan sightseeing promotion conference

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Various walk routes are in the park, and there are a landscape and a highlight different from each. Activity can also enjoy itself much for one day at Toyotomi.

Onuma quasi national park

• Nanae-cho, Kameda-gun, Hokkaido Onuma MAP
• Than JR Onuma-koen Station, 5 minutes on foot
• 0138-67-3020 (Nanae Onuma international sightseeing convention society)
• ari (no charge and pay)
• The event related information is subject to confirmation in HP.

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Hachirounuma park

All colored colored leaves which suit a reflection in the water are highlights.

About 40 minutes is the happy hunting ground-like park in the mountains away from the city of Hokuto city by car in Hakodate-shi. A water lily blooms for a cherry tree, Azalea and summer in spring, and the form of the person who takes a walk through the circumference of the marsh, the person who enjoys crucian carp fishing, the turf and the child who plays by playground equipment makes a heart calm down.
About 2000 trees are planted in the site of 11ha, when the trees begin to color from the middle of ordinary year October, all Sono wrap themselves up in colored leaves, I make them feel deepening in autumn. The "Hokuto corridor of colored leaves" held this time is the light up event popular every year. It's the park in the mountains, so there are no cases that you bother in the town light, and the colored leaves surfaced can't compare beauty which suits a reflection in the water in a marsh clearly to darkness. A street stall and the event booth of a local gourmet also appear and color a long night in autumn happily during an event period.

[Best time of colored leaves] at the middle ofordinary year October-at the beginning of November.
[The kind of trees] a maple, an azalea and a cherry tree.

▼ Hokuto corridor of colored leaves
Date: 2025 year October 17 (Fri)-November 3 (Mon)
Light up :16:00-21:00
A place: Hachirounuma park
URL:https://www.city.hokuto.hokkaido.jp/docs/7527.html

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The view spot panoramic observatory in the pheasant pull high plain where it's in the location of about 15 minutes by car from Hachirounuma park also recommends. You can get a bird's-eye view of Hakodateyama, Funka Bay, Onuma and Komagatake with colored leaves.

Hachirounuma park

• Field 132 for Hokkaido Hokuto city MAP
• It's a car from JR Shin-Hakodate-Hokuto Station, about 15 minutes
• 0138-77-5011 (Hokuto city tourist association)
• Free