Meal on Board

Assemble at Singapore Changi Airport for your flight to Chitose via Narita/Haneda..

Lunch/8-Course Kaiseki Dinner

Breakfast/Buffet Lunch/Dinner

With its pristine waters, vast pastures and bracing air, Hokkaido is renowned for churning out some of Japan’s best dairy products. Make a stop at Glass Forest to view its trove of exquisite diamond dust glassware known as Shibare glass. Distinguished by an embedded crack line, each piece is unique and a consummate work of art. Roll up your sleeves and enjoy a candle making session.

Bonus

Get up close and personal with huge polar bears, furry white fox, chubby and witness the adorable penguins walk at Asahiyama Zoo from December to January. The zoo is closed from 30December to 2January.

Breakfast/Lunch/Seafood Set Dinner with Crab

This morning, enjoy a hands-on, interactive education at Okhotsk Sea Ice Museum. Wander around this sprawling science centre and find out more about the wonders of science and nature through exhibits on subjects such as sea ice and climate change. Later, proceed to Okhotsk Tower to experience the mystery and wonder of drift ice in a sub-20 degree environment. Catch a glimpse of the “ice fairy”, a mysterious creature, or try blowing “ice bubble”. Later, come face-to-face with rare seal seals at Okhotsk Seal Centre, a conservation centre that offers dwelling and protection for these remarkable creatures. This evening, make you way to an onsen resort in Mombetsu. Enjoy a kimono dress-up session and see how the traditional snack, mochi, is made during a mochi pounding show.

Bonus
Enjoy Ice-Breaker Cruise ride and admiring the panoramic view of Sea of Okhotsk covered with 40-50cm thick drift ice from February to 15March

Breakfast/Lunch/Seafood Buffet Dinner

Enjoy a hands-on, interactive education at Okhotsk Sea Ice Museum. Wander around this sprawling science centre and find out more about the wonders of science and nature through exhibits on subjects such as sea ice and climate change. Later, proceed to Okhotsk Tower to experience the mystery and wonder of drift ice in a sub-20 degree environment. Catch a glimpse of the “ice fairy”, a mysterious creature, or try blowing “ice bubble”. Later, come face-to-face with rare seal seals at Okhotsk Seal Centre, a conservation centre that offers dwelling and protection for these remarkable creatures. Make a stop at historic and imposing-looking Abashiri Prison. Built in the 1890s, this complex had once held dangerous criminals; today, it houses a comprehensive museum that documents the daily lives of the prisoners. Thereafter, make your way to Shiretoko Peninsula in eastern Hokkaido. End the day with a sumptuous buffet dinner in the onsen resort hotel in Shiretoko and indulging hot spring bath with panorama view of Okhotsk Sea.

Bonus
Hands on Ice Fishing on ice-lake from January to 15March

Breakfast/Lunch/Japanese Buffet Dinner

After breakfast, proceed to Lake Akan, a unique crater lake located in Akan National Park, and home to colonies of marimo, a very rare algae species that transforms to beautiful green balls if left untouched for a few centuries. Along the way, walk through the sulphurous valley and see boiling ponds and steaming streams at the Mt Iou, here you might get to taste the local sulfur steam egg. Rest those tired feet after a morning of walking and enjoy a foot spa at the enchanting Lake Kussharo. If weather permits, you may want to experience the snowmobile ride on the powdery snow at own expenses from 15 December to 15 March. Spend the night at an onsen hotel in Lake Akan.

Breakfast

This morning, bid farewell to peaceful Lake Akan and make your way to buzzing Sapporo, the capital of Hokkaido prefecture. Go all out and embark on a quick shopping spree at Mitsui Outlet Park Sapporo Kitahiroshima, an outlet mall that boasts a plethora of domestic and imported brands under one roof. Next, proceed to Odori Park, located in the heart of Sapporo. This beautifully manicured green space is a charming assembly of monumental fountains, sculptures and flowerbeds. Each winter, its verdant grounds play host to the famed Sapporo Ice Festival. End the day with a stroll along famed Tanukikoji Shopping Arcade, the longest shopping street in Hokkaido.

Breakfast

After breakfast, transfer to the airport for your flight home via Haneda/Narita.  

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