Dean and Sue Zemke

Lavender and flower field Tomita Farm in Nakafurano    July 2002

Sounkyo Hyoubaku (Ice Fall) Festival   2007

Sounkyo Hyoubaku (Ice Fall) Festival   2007

Sounkyo Hyoubaku (Ice Fall) Festival   2007

Sapporo Snow Festival 2004  Makomanai Site

All snow sculpture of Taj Mahal

Japan Self Defense Force Band playing fanfares

 

 

Sapporo Snow Festival 2004  Odori Site  All ice sculpture

 

 

Sapporo Snow Festival 2004  Odori Site  All snow lit sculpture

 

 

Snoopy and Woodstock at the Sapporo Snow Festival   2004

 

 

Sunset over Sea of Japan in Rumoi City    September 2002

Sea of Japan viewed from town of Obira    September 2002

PorotoKotan Ainu Village in Shiraoi Town (rebuilt in 1965)   June 2002

Ainu were the indigenous people on the island of Hokkaido

 

 

PorotoKotan Ainu Village in Shiraoi Town (rebuilt in 1965)   June 2002

 

 

Statue of Kotan Korokuru

PorotoKotan Ainu Village in Shiraoi Town (rebuilt in 1965)   June 2002

 

 

In front of the statue of Kotan Korokuru

PorotoKotan Ainu Village in Shiraoi Town (rebuilt in 1965)   June 2002

 

 

Ainu Ritual Dance (indigenous people on the island of Hokkaido)

PorotoKotan Ainu Village in Shiraoi Town (rebuilt in 1965)   June 2002

 

Furano City is the geographic center of Hokkaido.

 

Furano City hosts the Heso Matsuri, named because Furano

is the geographic center of Hokkaido.  The parade is quite

interesting and sometimes hilarious.  Chest/abdomen is painted

as a face and a hat is held over the head.    July 2003

 

Tohma Papillon Chateau (Butterfly/Insect Museum)  October 2003

 

 

Posted near cave entrance.  (Disclaimer:  We do not agree with limestone formation dating.)

 

Tohma Limestone Cave  October 2003

 

Tohma in October 2003

 

Tohma in October 2003

 

Smoking Sulfur Pits at Noboribetsu's Jigokudani   May 2004

 

Destruction after Mt. Usu's volcanic eruption in March 2000    May 2004

 

Area around Mt. Usu is still smoking four years later    May 2004

 

This road really buckled during Mt. Usu's 2000 eruption   May 2004

 

 

This sign in Sapporo city is about 100 miles southwest of our city of Asahikawa