Tomamu, Sahoro & Tokachi

トマム・十勝43°07′ N 142°42′ E3 towns6 stays

The Tokachi side sees fewer storms and colder nights, so whatever falls stays light for days. Tomamu and Sahoro face each other across the Karikachi Pass with long bluebird groomers and powder you sign a bib for.

TownsStaysContours every 50 m

Photo 皓月旗 · Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0 and others, credited in the gallery

3 in Tokachi

Towns and neighbourhoods町

Obihiro

Tokachi

CityPop. 159,294Tokachi

Shintoku

Tokachi

TownPop. 5,476Tokachi

Tomamu

Tokachi

Resort villagePop. 653Tokachi

6 in Tokachi

Places to stay宿

Club Med Sahoro's brick hotel wings and covered entrance with snow on the ground

Club Med Sahoro Hokkaido

Shintoku · Tokachi

Luxury hotel¥¥¥¥

The Tomamu towers above snowy ski runs, a stop on the Japan CRC and Hoshino Powder Belt camper plan

The brick entrance of RISONARE Tomamu with its name on a timber wall

Hoshino Resorts RISONARE Tomamu

Tomamu · Tokachi

Luxury hotel¥¥¥¥

Ski runs stripe the snowy east face of Sahoro-dake above dark conifer forest

A skier looks out over the Tokachi plain from the top of Bear Mountain at Sahoro

Sahoro Resort Hotel

Shintoku · Tokachi

Hotel¥¥

Rows of lit cones glow on the snow at the Sairinka winter festival in Tokachigawa Onsen

Whooper swans crowd the Tokachi River below the Tokachi-Chuo Bridge near Tokachigawa Onsen at sunset

Tokachigawa Onsen Daiichi Hotel

Obihiro · Tokachi

Onsen hotel¥¥

Searchlights and coloured cones light a snowfield at the Sairinka festival in Tokachigawa Onsen

A whooper swan spreads its wings on the Tokachi River in winter

Tokachigawa Onsen Sanyoan

Obihiro · Tokachi

Ryokan¥¥¥¥

Snowy conifers surround a hotel tower at Tomamu, the forest resort that holds the Kirin-no-Yu bath

Hoshino Resorts Tomamu The Tower

Tomamu · Tokachi

Hotel¥¥¥24,600