Visit Shiretoko National Park, Hokkaido
The Shiretoko Peninsula is the dramatic, windswept, easterly tip of Hokkaido, with only Cape Nosappu to the south being further east.

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Hokkaido, Japan
The Shiretoko Peninsula is the dramatic, windswept, easterly tip of Hokkaido, with only Cape Nosappu to the south being further east.
It was known in the indigenous Ainu language as the "end of the world" and is really rather remote, with few roads and plenty of bears.
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Shiretoko National Park
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- The Shiretoko Peninsula is the dramatic, windswept, easterly tip of Hokkaido, with only Cape Nosappu to the south being further east.
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