Now in preparation — launching 2027

Your own Hokkaido.

Private journeys through Japan's snow country — designed around you, guided by a local, one group at a time.

Plan your journey What we do

No buses. No fixed routes. No crowds.

Private · Local · Unhurried

YUKIZURU is a private tour service based in Sapporo. Each day is designed around you: the morning market where locals actually eat, the backroad hill in Biei no bus ever turns onto, the exact hour the light reaches the Blue Pond.

Built for travelers who want Hokkaido in depth — from powder mornings in Niseko to silent marshes where the red-crowned cranes dance.

What we do

Sapporo · Otaru · Niseko · Furano & Biei

The crane in the snow

Why YUKIZURU

Yuki (雪) is snow. Tsuru (鶴) is the crane. In deep winter, red-crowned cranes dance in the snowfields of eastern Hokkaido — a bird the Ainu people honored as sarorun kamuy, the god of the marshes.

The name is our promise: to travel this land with respect for its nature and its cultures, and to share the Hokkaido that locals quietly love.

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Places we have walked

Photos, video and notes from our own trips
Shiretoko

Shiretoko

UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE
Asahidake

Asahidake

HOKKAIDO'S HIGHEST PEAK
Niseko Annupuri

Niseko Annupuri

AUTUMN HIKE · MT. YOTEI VIEW
Jozankei

Jozankei

AUTUMN COLOUR · ONSEN TOWN
Eastern Hokkaido

Eastern Hokkaido

KUSHIRO · NEMURO · SHIRETOKO
Northern Hokkaido

Northern Hokkaido

WAKKANAI · SOYA HILLS · FURANO

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Plan your journey

Tell us what you dream of — a season, a landscape, a pace. We'll design around it and reply within 48 hours.

hello@yukizuru-hokkaido.com