You will meet our guide Paul Whitton at Asahikawa airport at 13:00pm. Please note domestic flights are not included in the tour.
Recommended flight from Tokyo : JAL-551 Dep Haneda (Tokyo) 10:55am Arr Asahikawa 12:30pm

We will stay 2 consecutive nights in Asahikawa located in the central part of Hokkaido near Mt, Daisetsuzan National Park. This day we will visit photography spots in Biei, and picturesque small towns surrounded by gentle rolling hills vast wheat fields and green fields of other various crops coexist on the hills, the curves and different colors create a beautiful patchwork-like hilly landscapes.

Asahikawa
(Mt.Daisetsuzan)

Asahikawa
Haboro
Teuri Island

We will head to Haboro by private vehicle and take an afternoon ferry to Teuri island located 27km offshore. On arrival at Teuri island, be transferred to accommodation. In the late afternoon, we will take a small boat to observe and photograph seabirds mainly Rhinoceros Auklet. As it gets darker, the birds arriving to roost will intensify, filling the sky with Rhinoceros Auklets. On a clear day, you may encounter an unimaginable scene as the sun sets into the horizon The Rhinoceros Auklets overlap painting the sky with their flight formations.

In the early morning, we will take a small boat to observe the Spectacled Guillemot & Rhinoceros Auklet again, this time, to catch them leaving the island.

After breakfast, we will go out for bird photography by private vehicle and visit some seabird breeding grounds. Observe and photograph the Spectacled guillemots leaving from and coming back to their nests, see the close up raising of the Black-tailed Gull chicks, and a good chance to see Siberian rubythroats & Himalayan cuckoo among other species.

After lunch, we’ll take a relaxing afternoon break, to take some time to empty memory cards and re-charge our batteries. You can also take a little free time to explore the local area on foot.

Around sunset time, we will go out for Rhinoceros Auklet Homing. Their homing begins after sunset, and more of these birds return to their nests as it gets darker outside. The sound of their wings flapping leaves a powerful impact and is overwhelming for those seeing it. We also look for owl species in the forest.

This morning and daytime is basically the same as Day4 for more chances to photograph sea birds. We will take an early morning cruise then off to seabird breeding ground for a photography tour. After an afternoon break, we will take a sunset cruise, where you will have a more experienced opportunity, after the previous day of photography, to capture the birds on flight.

Last morning boat cruise to enjoy the incredible birds of Teuri island. After breakfast, we will return by ferry back to Haboro, where we will head north to Wakkanai, the most northern town in Hokkaido and Japan. En route, we will stop at Sarobetsu Gensei Kaen for birding mainly grassland birds such as Siberian Stonechat, Ruby Throat, and Yellow wagtails as well as Latham's Snipe around the shore among other possibilities.