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Places worth the detour in Hokkaidō

Detourmap lists 118 places in Hokkaidō, Japan, across 2 kinds of detour. Best known: Shiretoko National Park. 79 rank as little-known. Click any card to open it on the map.

Nature111 Archaeological7
Places
118
Oldest
Mount Yōtei 60000 BC
Little known
79 of 118
Share of Japan
9%

Hokkaidō 118

All 118, best known first.

Elsewhere in Japan

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Questions about this page

What is the best known place worth the detour in Hokkaidō?

Shiretoko National Park, 20th century. National park in Hokkaidō, Japan. It leads because more Wikipedia language editions cover it than any other place here.

How many places worth the detour are there in Hokkaidō?

118: 111 nature & landscapes and 7 archaeological & historic sites. 79 of them are little known — they carry a Wikipedia article in only a handful of languages.

What is the oldest place on this map in Hokkaidō?

Mount Yōtei, dated to 60000 BC. 12 of the 118 places here carry a founding date at all.

What counts as Hokkaidō here?

Wikidata's own administrative boundary: a place is in Hokkaidō if its located in the administrative territorial entity chain leads there. Hokkaidō is a first-level division of Japan, the same level as a state or a province.

Where does this information come from?

Every place is drawn from Wikidata (CC0), with photographs from Wikimedia Commons and a link to its English Wikipedia article. Selection is deterministic: a place is here because Wikidata files it under one of the classes this atlas carries and it has coordinates, a photo and an article. Nothing is written or chosen by an AI, and the ranking is simply how many Wikipedia language editions cover a place.