Hōheikyō Hot Spring Tickets and Tours

Full Day Green Season Hiking in Sapporo and Hokkaido with onsen.

Trekmate is highly recommended. Chris is an awesome guide!

Chris is a wonderful guide! He is friendly, open, easy to talk with and knows the mountains around Hokkaido extremely well, He is thoroughly knowledgeable about the hundreds of trails in the area. We asked him to modify our route a bit to take account of a couple of bad knees which he did easily and seamlessly, which is to say without any fuss. Chris knows all of the flora and fauna of the region and equipped himself with bear repellent, which we did not need to use. At the end of our 11km hike, Chris prepared us a delicious camping lunch and then took us to a local Onsen for a wonderful hot spring/cold plunge bath with sauna, the excellent end to a lovely day. We would recommend Chris highly! While we trekked with Chris in September, he also leads day and overnight snowshoe excursions in the winder months.

Sapporo Private Sightseeing Tour in Onsen with Special Package

Highly recommended

We loved this tour, and the snow show walk was very much a highlight. Tomoe-san was an excellent guide and it was very obvious that he loves sharing his knowledge of the area with people. He was very friendly and flexible.

Autumn Tour from Sapporo Hoheikyo Dam and Hoheikyo Onsen

Everything you would want from a tour and much more than you would expect

Scott Edmond was our tour guide. Retired USAF, with a native born Japanese wife of 40 years he is a long time resident of Sapporo and the kindest most knowledgeable man. Very solicitous of our comfort and ability to handle the walking, the subway and bus rides that comprised the tour. Also our visit to the Ancient Onsen which is the pinnacle of the tour in addition to the Hydroelectric dam gorge. His love for Japan, its history, people and culture is apparent and profound as he shared the perspective and objective observations that only a non-native can articulate concerning his adopted home. This was not just a surface description of Hokkaido's geography, businesses, agriculture and the many sights we passed on our subway ride, our bus and walking tour to Hoheikyo Dam and lunch at a famous local curry restaurant before a relaxing visit to one of the most ancient Onsens in all of Hokkaido. This was all framed by a deep discussion of the unique history of Hokkaido island, its indigenous Ainu people, the recent and current history of political and social forces that have shaped and are currently reshaping Japanese society, and set amid a delightful one day journey from the dynamic modern City of Sapporo along a beautiful wild mountain river gorge to Jozankei. Well worth the time and money.