Reshiri & Rebun island, off Hokkaido
Rishiri and Rebun are islands situated at the northern most tip of Japan. Just off the tip of northern Hokkaido.
Rishiri Island a remote island about 20 kilometres off the island of Japan and has a circumference of 60kilometres. What it lacks in size is made up for a spectacular view of its scenery. In the middle of the island is Mount Rishiri, a dormant volcano. Together with its neighbouring island Rebun, Rishiri belongs to the Rishiri-Rebun-Sarobetsu National Park. Many of the island’s 6000 inhabitants are making a living from tourism and fishing.
Visiting these islands is a sure way of interacting with nature. Visitors who come here hike, camp, fish and mountain climb. These islands are popular during the summer months when the weather is not too hot and nature basically takes your for a walk. It is absolutely beautiful.
How do you get to Reshiri and Rebun Island?
Takes an airplane to Sapporo and then drive your way to the port to take the ferry to either of these islands.
Higashi Nihonkai Ferry operates the following ferry routes:
* Wakkanai – Rishiri (Oshidomari Port)
100 minutes, 1980 Yen, 2-4 round trips per day
* Wakkanai – Rebun (Kafuka Port)
115 minutes, 2200 Yen, 2-4 round trips per day
* Rishiri (Oshidomari Port) – Rebun (Kafuka Port)
40 minutes, 780 Yen, 1-2 round trips per day
* Rishiri (Kutsugata Port) – Rebun (Kafuka Port)
40 minutes, 780 Yen, 2 round trips per day in summer onlyBringing a car from Wakkanai to Rishiri or Rebun by ferry costs around 17,000 to 18,000 Yen one way. Between Rishiri and Rebun the cost is about 6000 Yen. Reservations for cars should be made at least one day in advance.
Wakkanai can be reached from Sapporo by train (5.5 hours, 10,000 Yen), airplane (1 hour, 10,000 to 20,000 Yen) or highway bus (6 hours, 5500 Yen) and from Tokyo by airplane (2 hours, 15,000 to 40,000 Yen).
To read more about how to get there click HERE.
Source: Japan Guide
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April 12th, 2007 at 11:34 pm
As a Japanese person residing in Europe I recommed the western backpackers to stay at Hakuba Kazenoko as alternative one of the K’s Inn when it’s fully booked.
Try to contact ‘em by phone 0261-72-6463. They offer you a well accomodation for JPY 5000 half board in western style.
I once stayed at the hostel for three weeks in summer 1998. It was a great experience to learn Japanese vacationers over there that were different ones from western standard, as local Japanese people have only one week vacation holidays a year. Many of the roommates were likely to take me for excursion by their own cars to northern coast of Honshu where good sushi dishes were available for incredible prices of JPY 2000 (Euro 12) that were worth more than Euro 30 in our place near Hamburg. I found the price of a glass of beer was too much expensive for our German standard due to the Japanese gov’t policy collecting tax from liquors.
So, try once to overnight at the hostel especially if you a gaijin living in Japan.
Appreciate with lot of love from Hamburg, Germany. Mit freundlichen Gruessen.
Edward