Obihiro – Tokachi (Otofuke-cho, Shikaoi-cho, Shimizu-cho, Ikeda-Cho, Obihiro City, Hokkaido)

In each season, all of the local shops offer a unique menu featuring products from the Tokachi area at this country fair, and the local industries hold special events, making this a forum for contact between tourists and the local citizens.

This hot spring village is located on the plains near the Tokachi River. The famous "Vegetative Moor Hot Spring" is a rare example of this type of hot spring, even worldwide, and it has been specified as a cultural property of Hokkaido. The hot spring water is easy on the skin, and it is well-known as the "Bijin no Yu" (literally, Hot Spring for Beautiful Women)

Shikaoi is an attractive city with a variety of art facilities, including the Kanda Nissho Memorial Museum of Art, where you will find a display of the work by Kanda Nissho, a painter of the realism school, the Art Collection Fukuhara Memorial Hall, and the lakeside Minerva Art Museum, located in the Hotel Fukuhara, etc.

Here you will find attractive gardens taking full advantage of the beautiful natural landscape and displays of contemporary art closely matching the surrounding forest, and you can use a Segway to get around the area. The homemade farm produce, the stock farm products, and the restaurants featuring local materials are very popular.

Tokachi Wine is made and sold at this facility, and you can tour the whole facility at will. There are also guided tours available (free of charge, but reservations are required).

Specialty goods are also on sale here, and at the DCT Gallery, stage dress and the like are on display and original goods are on sale.