Asahiyama Zoo is a very popular zoological garden just outside of central Asahikawa City in the middle of Hokkaido.

Like several other places in Hokkaido, Asahikawa is famous for its ramen. On the outskirts of the city there is an interesting collection of ramen shops called the Asahikawa Ramen Village. Eight famous ramen restaurants from Asahikawa have opened small branch stores besides one another in the complex alongside a gift shop and a small ramen shrine.

Otokoyama is Asahikawa’s most famous sake, both within Japan and worldwide. The spacious complex offers plenty to occupy the senses including a front seat view of the sake making process, a sake museum, a beautiful Japanese garden filled with flowers from May to September, a garden-side shaded rest area to unwind, as well as a delightful sake tasting room and gift shop.

The Snow Crystal Museum of Asahikawa is a small, understated “museum” purely dedicated to snowflakes.

"Hokkaido Garden" in English-style, with a wide variety of perennial plants, the atmosphere and colours of the gardens change according to the season.

Experience Hokkaido handicraft making, in addition to experiencing the cold of a simulated Hokkaido winter

offers a fantastic, magical and romantic experience inside a freezing, snowy and ice-covered world

The Asahikawa Design Center is home to permanent booths for around 30 Asahikawa-area furniture and craft makers. This space is a home base for the communication of design and lifestyle that hosts more than 20,000 people a year at a myriad of events, from locally-oriented craft workshops and sales to Asahikawa Design Week, a gathering of buyers, architects and interior design professionals fromaround the country.

The park has around 3,500 Sargent’s cherry trees. When the trees are at full bloom, the whole park appears to be dyed pink.

Daisetsuzan National Park (大雪山国立公園 Daisetsuzan Kokuritsu Kōen), or Taisetsuzan is located in the mountainous center of the northern Japanese island of Hokkaidō.