Shiretoko: Choose Between the Five Lakes Boardwalk, the Falls and the Utoro Stops

Shiretoko Goko: the Boardwalk and the Ground Pathway

Walk the elevated wooden boardwalk at Shiretoko Goko out to the final observation deck, then turn around and come back the same way. The boardwalk has no steps and keeps its gradient gentle, so a wheelchair can pass along it.

To use the ground pathway in summer and autumn, pay the lecture fee of four hundred fifty yen as an adult or two hundred yen for a child aged eleven or under. The lecture itself takes about ten minutes.

Between the tenth of May and the end of July, walk the ground pathway on a guided tour. The large loop tour covers a total of three kilometers and takes three hours.

The small loop tour covers one point six kilometers and takes one hour and forty-five minutes. A same-day guided tour costs seven thousand yen for the large loop and four thousand yen for the small loop for anyone aged twelve or older.

If you would rather have a guide with you, browse tours around Shiretoko.

Oshinkoshin Falls and Furepe Falls

Park in the free lot at Oshinkoshin Falls, which has room for forty passenger cars and three buses.

Allow about twenty minutes one way on foot for the path from the Shiretoko Nature Center to Furepe Falls. At Furepe Falls the water seeps out of a vertical rock face and flows down into the sea.

Utoro: the Michi-no-Eki and the Walk to Yuhidai

Stop at Michi-no-Eki Utoro Shirietoku, which opens from nine in the morning to five in the afternoon, and eat at its restaurant between ten and three. It closes every Thursday in December and from the twenty-ninth of December to the third of January.

From the Utoro bus terminal, walk about one kilometer, roughly fifteen minutes, to reach Yuhidai.

Shiretoko Nature Center and the World Heritage Conservation Center

Buy an adult ticket for the video hall at the Shiretoko Nature Center for six hundred yen. From late October to mid-April the center keeps winter hours, from nine in the morning to four in the afternoon.

The Nature Center closes over the year-end and New Year holidays and on every Wednesday in December. Its parking lot holds one hundred eighty-two regular vehicles and is free of charge.

The Shiretoko World Heritage Conservation Center opens from nine in the morning to half past four in the afternoon during its winter period, from late October to mid-April. In that winter period it closes every Tuesday and from the twenty-ninth of December to the third of January.

Getting to Shiretoko

The Shiretoko Line bus runs on its winter service from the beginning of November to late April. The Shiretoko Airport Liner runs its winter service from mid-January to early March.

Item	Detail
Bus from the bus terminal in front of JR Shiretoko-Shari Station to Utoro Onsen	45 minutes to 1 hour
Shuttle bus from Utoro to Shiretoko Goko	25 minutes
By car from Utoro to Shiretoko Goko	About 14 km, about 20 minutes