This tour takes you inside Tashiro-no-Mori, a forest garden in Hiroo Town in Hokkaido’s Tokachi region. This forest is owned and managed by Yukihiro Izumi, who named it after his great grandfather Tashiro, a settler who moved to Tokachi during the pioneering days of Hokkaido. Streams and springs flow throughout the forest, and various wild flowers bloom all over the place from spring to autumn. Izumi-san will guide you around the forest and tell you all about its flora and fauna. After the walk, you’ll take a rest on a thatched hut hand-built by Izumi-san, where you can enjoy a warm cup of drip coffee and some famous sweets made in Tokachi.

It took almost 20 years for Yukihiro Izumi to build the forest garden by himself, and he knows the place like the back of his hand. 

The forest grows with over 500 different varieties of trees and plants, and blooms with various wild flowers from spring to autumn. 

After the walk, you’ll visit one of the thatched huts in the forest, where you can take a rest while enjoying some local sweets and a hot cup of drip coffee brewed using water from the forest’s natural springs.

Note: All images are for illustration purposes only. Your actual experience may vary.

Schedule

9:30	Meetup at Tashiro-no-Mori
9:35	Forest walk with Izumi-san
10:25	Coffee and sweets break
11:30	Tour finish