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A day-trip hot spring facility where you can enjoy a view of Lake Kutcharo while taking a bath. "Bijin no yu", which contains a lot of hydrogen carbonate ions, is easy with a slushy skin.

In summer, Kutciaro Lake is full of people who enjoy canoeing and windsurfing. You can also enjoy outdoor life along with water activities. The moment the sun sets, the whole lake is stained red and becomes a fantastic sight.

A large number of migratory birds, including swans, come to rest their wings in a lake under the Ramsar Convention for the purpose of protecting the moors. There is an exhibition space on the lake's natural environment.

A station dealership on the road in Japan's northernmost village adjacent to the Sarufutsu Ranch. The store name is named by Professor Kitano Omae Meidai. "Sarufutsudo no Ekiben Scallop Meshi" is a manufacturer and sales source of 680 yen, and sells processed scallops, crabs, salmon and other products that are famous for Sarufutsu. The 400 yen for the Kokemo soft serve, which can only be bought here, and the 460 yen for the Kokemo Senbei are well received. A new "Michinoben Ekiben Scallop Meshi no" 880 yen is on sale nationwide.

Roadside station located in a corner of the vast green space of Sarufutsu village, the northernmost village in Japan. In Sarufutsu-mura, scallops are very popular, and in restaurants you can taste scallops curry. Enjoy the local cuisine and nature of the Sea of Okhotsk at the roadside station on the coastline.

The roadside station is marked by the Land Tower, which has an observatory with the image of an airship, and is a symbol of the town. The observation deck "Sky Cabin" offers a panoramic view of the Sea of Okhotsk, and in winter, a large panorama of drift ice is a touching view. The shop "Ippukuya" inside the station building sells souvenirs and shochu, and in the snack corner you can also taste "そば Soba", a specialty of Yutake-cho. The feature is that it contains abundant rutin, which has an excellent effect of improving blood flow compared to ordinary buckwheat noodles. Among them, "Dattan soba with croquette" is popular.

A ranch run by the Deer Research Society, which fences about 7ha of grassland, allows you to see the sika deer relaxing on the ranch up close, and a baby rush around mid-June also shows the appearance of a deer that is sweet to its mother.

A roadside station featuring a cute orange color in the village of Seikakabe. In the specialty corner, "matsutake shochu" and canned venison "deer dream can" are well received, and in the resting corner, you can taste soft ice cream while looking at the flowers and woods around you. The Karakuri Organ "Oto-Ki-Hayashi", which resonates in the hall, is a built-in wooden whistles of several dozen, and is characterized by the sound and puppets moving along with the melody by the force of the wind.

North Plain Farm's directly operated restaurant, where you can enjoy soft ice cream with freshly squeezed milk and a hamburger menu full of homemade cheese. Milk products such as milk, butter cheese and yogurt, sweets such as fermented buttery cake are also sold. The meal menu is only at lunchtime (11-14).

A roadside station created on the site of the abandoned JR Nayoro Main Line's Kakube Station. It is located in "Joy Park", a park with a fountain and wheel objects, with the main facility being the "Anyuu" Kakubu Transportation Memorial Complex. Inside the facility, there is a railway history corner, which displays such items as rails and panels spelling out the history that were actually used on the Meiyo Main Line, and a "Okokopu goods house", which sells dairy products from the dairy town of Kobu. "Okhotsk Okopp Organic Milk" is popular for its natural taste. The Lugotha Express, a refurbished diesel car in the Joy Park, is used by many people as a simple accommodation and rest area.