Dean and Sue Zemke

Lavender and flower field Tomita Farm in Nakafurano    July 2002

Lake Shumarinai is Japan's largest man-made lake
with a surface area of 23.73 square kilometers.   September 2002

Sounkyo Hyoubaku (Ice Fall) Festival   2007

Sounkyo Hyoubaku (Ice Fall) Festival   2007

Sounkyo Hyoubaku (Ice Fall) Festival   2007

Our family at the Sounkyo Hyoubaku (Ice Fall) Festival   2007

Sapporo Snow Festival 2004  Makomanai Site

All snow sculpture of Taj Mahal

Japan Self Defense Force Band playing fanfares

 

Sapporo Snow Festival 2004  Odori Site  All ice sculpture

 

 

Sapporo Snow Festival 2004  Odori Site  All snow lit sculpture

 

Sapporo Snow Festival 2004

 

 

 Ghengis Khan, a lamb BBQ dish that's a specialty of our island of Hokkaido

Dr. William Smith Clark, who had a short but influential time

in Japan teaching at Agricultural College.  He actually told

his students, as he was departing:  Boys be ambitious for Christ.

Sapporo Dome in background.

Sapporo Clock Tower

   

                  Sapporo TV Tower and views from it (city buildings and Odori Park, main site of the Sapporo Snow Festival)

 

Sunset over Sea of Japan in Rumoi City    September 2002

Sea of Japan viewed from town of Obira    September 2002

Hanada, the largest house of a herring fishermen on Hokkaido,
now a museum; town of Obira     September 2002

PorotoKotan Ainu Village in Shiraoi Town (rebuilt in 1965)   June 2002
Ainu were the indigenous people on the island of Hokkaido

 

PorotoKotan Ainu Village in Shiraoi Town (rebuilt in 1965)   June 2002

 

Statue of Kotan Korokuru
PorotoKotan Ainu Village in Shiraoi Town (rebuilt in 1965)   June 2002

 

In front of the statue of Kotan Korokuru
PorotoKotan Ainu Village in Shiraoi Town (rebuilt in 1965)   June 2002

 

Ainu Ritual Dance (indigenous people on the island of Hokkaido)
PorotoKotan Ainu Village in Shiraoi Town (rebuilt in 1965)   June 2002

 

Furano City is the geographic center of Hokkaido.

 

Furano City hosts the Heso Matsuri, named because Furano

is the geographic center of Hokkaido.  The parade is quite

interesting and sometimes hilarious.  Chest/abdomen is painted

as a face and a hat is held over the head.    July 2003

 

Tohma Papillon Chateau (Butterfly/Insect Museum)  October 2003

 

Posted near cave entrance.  (Disclaimer:  We do not agree with limestone formation dating.)

 

Tohma Limestone Cave  October 2003

 

Tohma in October 2003

 

Tohma in October 2003

 

Smoking Sulfur Pits at Noboribetsu's Jigokudani   May 2004

 

Destruction after Mt. Usu's volcanic eruption in March 2000    May 2004

 

Area around Mt. Usu is still smoking four years later    May 2004

 

This road really buckled during Mt. Usu's 2000 eruption   May 2004

 

This sign in Sapporo city is about 60 miles southwest of our city of Asahikawa