Aso-beach Ishikari — Local services in Ishikari

Joined a tour and visited a salmon festival (鮭祭り) before the beach in October and it was awesome.

Local Japanese people gathered there and had fun eating local gourmet like fried soba, okonomiyaki (お好み焼き), sweet snacks and of course the local signature salmon soup (石狩鍋). All food were delicious and price was reasonable.

There were also traditional Japanese game booths and you could see kids enjoying playing all those little games.

People also did the traditional ritual along with some performances, which was truly an incredible and interesting experience that one has to do in Japan.

Beach is just an ordinary beach though. Sand is not white and it was too windy and cold to go into the water. But there still were people...

Took a ride on the bicycle out to Aso Beach Ishikari. Flat, pleasant ride which is around 2h from Sumikawa, 1h15min from Kotoni. Seasonal shops set up on the beach where you can get all of the usual Japanese meals. Would be a good beach for kids as the waves are quite small and there are roped off areas. Plenty of space here so crowding is...

The water is rather dark and not particularly clear. The beach itself is rather average with several beach huts where you can buy food. There are annoying buoys which indicate where you can’t swim past and that level is only about a meter deep. Other then that it’s...