Dean and Sue Zemke

Asahikawa, Hokkaido JAPAN

Pictures from Hokkaido(Japan's Northernmost Island)

Lavender and flower field Tomita Farm in Nakafurano    July 2002

Lake Shumarinai is Japan’s largest man-made lake
with a surface area of 23.73 square kilometers.   September 2002

Sounkyo Hyoubaku (Ice Fall) Festival   2007

Sounkyo Hyoubaku (Ice Fall) Festival   2007

Sounkyo Hyoubaku (Ice Fall) Festival   2007

Our family at the 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

Hanada, the largest house of a herring fishermen on Hokkaido,
now a museum; 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