hokkaido43.47° N, 142.65° E
Biei
Biei is a town of rolling farmland in central Hokkaido, between Asahikawa and Furano, whose hills are planted in a patchwork of crops beneath the Tokachi mountains.
The patchwork hills of Biei
- Region
- Hokkaido
- Our journeys
- One stay here
- Where we stay
- Mori no Ryotei Biei
Our tours stayA day on tourA Custom Tour of Japan
the place
Patchwork hills, a blue pond, and the forest outside the glass.
The fields change colour from hill to hill, wheat and potato and buckwheat in long curving strips, with single trees and stands of larch standing on the crests. In the hills to the south-east lies Shirogane's Blue Pond, its water coloured by the minerals of the springs, dead larches standing in it.
We stay in the forest, at Mori no Ryotei Biei, where every room has its own open-air onsen and the woods come close outside the glass. The Summer Tour of Hokkaido opens here with two nights, and gives a day to the lavender of Furano, half an hour away.
what we do here
Biei, as we show it
The patchwork hills
Fields in strips of colour over the rolling land, a lone tree on the crest.
The Blue Pond
Still water the colour of turquoise, larches standing in it, at Shirogane.
A stand of trees in the snow, Biei Shikisai-no-oka
A hill of flowers planted in diagonal bands, the mountains behind.
Mori no Ryotei Biei
A ryokan in the forest, every room with its own open-air onsen.
where we stay
Mori no Ryotei Biei
A forest ryokan of seventeen rooms in the Shirogane hot-spring district, each with its own open-air onsen.
On The Summer Tour of Hokkaido
our journeys here
The journeys that stay in Biei
questions
Questions about Biei
Which of your tours stay in Biei?
The Summer Tour of Hokkaido opens here with two nights at Mori no Ryotei Biei, and gives a day to the patchwork fields, the Blue Pond and the lavender of Furano.
How do you reach Biei?
By air to Asahikawa Airport, about twenty minutes by private car. On our tours the car and driver meet you there.
Can Biei be part of a private journey?
Yes. The Custom Tour of Japan can give Biei and Furano as many nights as you wish, alongside anywhere else in Japan. If you would rather travel independently, the Expert Japan Itinerary plans the days for you.
Biei, created for you alone.
The Custom Tour of Japan is created around your party alone, on your dates, and Biei can be any part of it. If you would rather travel independently, the Expert Japan Itinerary plans every day for you.